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Summary: Explains it all, great tutorials, now a regular reference.
Review: Finally there is an electronic resume book that explains it all, and then tells how to actually create one! The tutorials are awesome, and I'm already using the book as a regular reference.
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Summary: Master the Internet as an Effective Resume-Networking Tool.
Review: Hi! My name is Rebecca Smith, author of Electronic Resumes and Online Networking: How to Use the Internet to Do a Better Job Search, Including a Complete, Up-to-Date Resource Guide. Thanks for your interest in my book. I wrote it to provide a nice trim book as an alternative to printing 100+ pages from my Web site on this topic. I also took the opportunity to include step-by-step tutorials that you can use in the comfort of your own home without having to go online.This book started out as a Web site that grew and grew in popularity. You see, the majority of published material on this subject is written from the point of view of the HR Manager/Recruiter. I approached the subject from the point of view of the successful job hunter. This provided useful advice and information that has helped many visitors use the Internet as an effective resume-networking tool. What started out as a hobby turned into a massive project as I started getting lots of visitor e-mail. To answer it all, I wrote articles for local computer rags and online publications. That was over three years ago. Before I knew it, links to my Web site started appearing on the "Oprah Winfrey" shows of online career sites: The Riley Guide, JobSmart, Microsoft.com, Career Magazine, and JobOptions, not to mention several university career sites and online business writing courses. With the help of everyone I mention in the Acknowledgements section, Electronic Resumes and Online Networking was published. What's unique about my book is that it is not about resume writing. It's about how to take the content of an existing resume so that it is usable in an electronic form. Electronic Resumes and Online Networking helps you master the Internet as your most effective resume-networking tool. This is the first book to combine job networking, resume development, and computer technology into one integrated strategy. A vast amount of technical data and information is concentrated and simplified into this trim little book in the form of useful advice and step-by-step tutorials. The tutorials guide you on how to create text-only, rich text, and hypertext resumes, how to post them, and how to measure their effectiveness once posted. Technology is complex, but it does not have to be complicated. The electronic resume provides innovative ways of getting noticed in an increasingly online job market, where electronic file format is as important as style in presenting your qualifications, and the Internet can act as a multiplier on the effectiveness of your resume. In this book, you'll see how Anya the College Graduate, Greg the Construction Worker, and Theresa the Management Consultant organize their online job searches. You'll also meet Thomas B. Seeker, whose resume is transformed into several different formats throughout the book. Also, find out why some people receive "gobbledygook" resumes via e-mail, and others don't. Learn how search agents can do your job searching for you. And find out how job seekers are using their Web resumes to find "right fit" jobs. If that isn't enough, there are over 70 pages full of tutorials with "cue sheets" that guide you through the process of creating different electronic versions of your resume. Joyce Lain Kennedy, a Syndicated Careers Columnist and Bestselling Author who "discovered me" in a small corner of Cyberspace found this book so useful, that she wrote its foreword. I hope you will find it just as useful. Read this book, visit my site, and let me know about your own experience with applying for jobs online!
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Summary: Valuable Source of Information
Review: I found Ms. Smith's book to be an outstanding reference source. It is a "must keep" for anyone's personal reference library. The author provided the reader with a clear and easy understanding of the processes behind on-line networking. Her use of analogies made even complex technological issues easily understood by the non-technical person. Her suggestions for putting together a highly effective resume were outstanding. I am currently going through a career change, and found her resume formatting process to be superior. I am now in the process of completing my updated resume (using several of her techniques.) I am quite anxious to let it go on-line and see what develops. I have recommended her book to others.
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Summary: Necessary information and techniques for crafting reviews
Review: In a fully updated, revised and expanded second edition, Rebecca Smith's Electronic Resumes & Online Networking offers the reader the necessary information and techniques for crafting reviews suited to the Internet and targeting employers in terms of their hiring needs; identifying key skill needed to fill a specific job; keeping up with a given profession in discussion forums and virtual communities; creating the perfect electronic resume; the use of keywords and search engine techniques to get a resume noticed; and how to evaluate all the new resume options including electronic messages, electronic forms, web pages, and more. Electronic Resumes & Online Networking is a highly recommended resource for individual job seekers, job counselors, as well employment training and placement center reference collections.
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Summary: Necessary information and techniques for crafting reviews
Review: In a fully updated, revised and expanded second edition, Rebecca Smith's Electronic Resumes & Online Networking offers the reader the necessary information and techniques for crafting reviews suited to the Internet and targeting employers in terms of their hiring needs; identifying key skill needed to fill a specific job; keeping up with a given profession in discussion forums and virtual communities; creating the perfect electronic resume; the use of keywords and search engine techniques to get a resume noticed; and how to evaluate all the new resume options including electronic messages, electronic forms, web pages, and more. Electronic Resumes & Online Networking is a highly recommended resource for individual job seekers, job counselors, as well employment training and placement center reference collections.
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Summary: The finest book written on the evolving e-resume process.
Review: Rebecca knows her business. She knows her subject and she knows her readers. Her great success with this book is based upon her extensive knowledge of HR which she translates to the viewpoint of the job-seeker. Her substantial and varied professional background gives power to her words. For the recent graduate, middle manager, or an out-placed senior, she not only gives a great deal of solid, workable advice -- Rebecca culls the relevent information down to a readable and realistic program to work the magic of the Internet in your job search. Her resources are second to none and are current. For those of you who are firmly employeed... you should order this book now. It will take you to your next level of income. It certainly will provide you with some sense of your corporate worth. And should the consolidation factor or downsizing package hit your company -- you'll be well prepared to move on. And, possibly to an even better position in your industry. Very solid reading for all. Well worth twice the price.
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Summary: A book that people borrow and forget to return.
Review: Rebecca Smith's work on Electronic Resume's and Online Networking is a must read. It's one of those books that you hate to loan out, for fear of it not being returned! The definite, premiere work on strategic methods for succeeding in a competitive job market!
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Summary: Having an electronic resume is a must in today's job market!
Review: The content and technical how-to's are in this book! Writing, programming and posting a web resume can be a major challenge. Rebecca Smith is a great help if you take the time read and study her words. It will be worth it because being able to post and share your resume through a simple URL in an email is THE WAY TO MARKET YOURSELF ONLINE! I recommend this book highly! Kathryn K. Troutman, President, The Resume Place, Inc.; Author of four resume books and creator of web resumes!
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Summary: Great For Creating & Posting Web Resumes!
Review: The Internet has opened many doors for employment opportunities in recent years. Many Websites, job boards, and books have been produced to help people find the jobs they want and to help employers find the people they need. Electronic Resumes & Online Networking by Rebecca Smith is one book job hunters should seriously consider picking up. It will provide plenty of resume writing and job searching assistance. This book is wholly devoted to creating electronic format resumes for posting online. It sets forth important guidelines for them. The author provides detailed instruction on how readers should structure resumes for electronic distribution. The author also spends a good deal of time helping her readers to create their own Web resumes. Web resumes, one of the latest developments in job hunting, allows job seekers to have more control over the way they present themselves to prospective employers. They offer job seekers an excellent opportunity to create online portfolios of their work histories, professional accomplishments, art and photographic work, testimonials, and personal photographs. Web resumes, due to their unique nature, are very economical to create, maintain, and update on a regular basis. Plenty of ideas and examples are provided to get readers started right away! The author includes literally hundreds of Websites, many of which allow readers to apply for work online, some according to their own industry. Other sites offer further assistance in finding employment, creating Websites, obtaining graphic images, and more. An excellent listing of recommended reading materials is provided at the back of the book to offer further assistance in creating resumes, Websites, Web graphics, using e-mail, and learning HTML programming. This book is highly recommended for job seekers who feel comfortable about posting their resumes online. They will have the opportunity to reach a broader number of employers with specially-tailored resumes. Interested persons could also open up their own online resume posting services as well. This book will teach them how!
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Summary: The best I've read on online networking/job search!
Review: The maxim, "Knowledge is power," comes to mind after reading Rebecca Smith's book, Electronic Resumes and Online Networking (Career Press, 1999). This book is truly a wealth of information . . . with it, job seekers will be armed with the power to create content-driven Web resumes, negotiate the maze of the Internet, and connect with like-minded job seekers, as well as recruiters and employers. The author is a crack researcher and knows her topic inside and out. This book should be required reading for any job seeker who wants to know how to use the Internet to advance their career! Susan Whitcomb, author of Resume Magic (JIST Works, 1999)
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