Notices
Career Questions Career advice, interview prep and gouges, job fairs, etc.

Pasting resume:

Old 01-25-2011, 01:30 PM
  #1  
Gets Weekends Off
Thread Starter
 
Joined APC: Apr 2009
Position: A-320 FO
Posts: 693
Default Pasting resume:

I am finding several job websites where the applicant is required to paste their resume into a box, resulting in something that is barely recognizable
as the professional looking, word-formatted resume you spent hours perfecting. Is there a proper fix for this?
clipperskipper is offline  
Old 01-25-2011, 02:40 PM
  #2  
Prime Minister/Moderator
 
rickair7777's Avatar
 
Joined APC: Jan 2006
Position: Engines Turn Or People Swim
Posts: 39,100
Default

I would turn off all formatting in word and redo your resume so it looks somewhat OK without indents and whatever else doesn't translate.
rickair7777 is offline  
Old 01-25-2011, 03:24 PM
  #3  
Moderator
 
Cubdriver's Avatar
 
Joined APC: May 2006
Position: ATP, CFI etc.
Posts: 6,056
Default

My thought would be to just paste it in there and look through the mess it leaves and make sure it looks readable (only). Don't knock yourself out reformatting it then, at least not very much. All you are doing is entering a searchable form of it into the HR software so HR can do quick searches of thousands of resumes without having to ferret through them one by one for critical facts. If it comes time to do an interview they will request a formatted version.
Cubdriver is offline  
Old 01-25-2011, 06:37 PM
  #4  
Chief Jeppesen Updater
 
FlyerJosh's Avatar
 
Joined APC: Oct 2005
Position: Executive Transport Driver
Posts: 3,080
Default

Take your word resume and copy/paste it to a .txt document. Clean it up and reformat. Use that for "automated" entries. I personally WOULD make sure that it at least looked a bit presentable- even though it's usually for automated scanner software, you never know who might take a look to see if you were detail oriented.
FlyerJosh is offline  
Related Topics
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
superpilot61
Career Questions
7
05-12-2010 11:07 AM
beis77
Military
19
05-05-2008 07:28 AM
Bumm
Regional
10
08-22-2007 06:27 PM
saab2000
Major
2
12-18-2006 11:17 AM
Freighter Captain
Cargo
0
11-04-2005 08:02 AM

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off
Trackbacks are On
Pingbacks are On
Refbacks are On


Thread Tools
Search this Thread
Your Privacy Choices