Would you like an innovative idea to help market yourself when looking for employment? A way to send out resumes without having to pay for stationary or postage? The answer is simple! Convert your resume to an HTML (web page) format and publish it online. Having your resume in HTML format keeps you online 7/24 giving multiple employers access to your resume for simultaneous viewing. This way, you can query employers using an email cover letter with a link to your resume. In order to do this you will need to know how to work with HTML and have access to a web server to host your resume.

Now here’s the thing: many employers use email scrubbers to filter out junk mail with links. So, you must have a professional way to present the link to your resume so it won’t get scrubbed and the best way to do this is to use your email signature function to set forth the link to the URL in your email, a common practice.

If you have a web site server which you are using for other things and you don’t want to mix apples and oranges, you can set up a blog at Google’s blogspot.com and use the blog for your introduction page with a link to your online resume. It’s really a snap if you know how to use HTML and can upload files to your server. By using HTML you can create a resume with point and click technology with links to supporting files like letters of testimonials, scanned images of certificates, newspaper clippings and anything else you consider relevant to your resume.

Keep in mind that many employers will still want a printable version of your resume and this can be easily accomplished by up loading a MSWord version or PDF version of your resume on to your server with download links to both within the resume itself. In this way, an employer can view your online resume quickly and either print or download either version to the hard drive where they can save it or print it later.

Web based resume technology is a very cool way to create a point of differentiation between yourself and the masses when querying employers for employment. Everyday employers are bombarded with resumes but it is not every day they have access to a point and click resume!

Another nice feature to this technology is the ease of the job seeking process. For example, most online chambers of commerce sites have member directories organized by business category, easily enabling you to identify potential employers and giving you access to their websites where you can easily contact them via email. It doesn’t get any easier than this…

You can click into my author bio area where you can view my personal URL for an example of what I am talking about. Remember, getting a job requires you to stand out of the crowd and this is one way to do it.

I hope you found this tip helpful.