How to publish your resume (profile) online on internet

With the advent of Web 2.0 technology and SaaS (Software as a Service) applications it has become easy to keep your documents in the Cloud (keeping documents online as it is called by techies). There is no reason why you keep sending your updated resume to prospective employers through email. Keeping your ‘resume or profile’ online is an easy, effective and smart option these days. here are some of the ways to have your profile online:

Google Docs: You can upload your document to Google Docs (docs.google.com) and publish it online for everyone to see. Now share the link with everyone you wanted to share through email. This link will remain same even if you have changed the document.

Google Sites: You can easily create (without any technical knowledge – yes even the 4th graders in schools these days can do) a site with your personl profile on Google sites (sites.google.com). Site obviously give you more options as you can have multiple pages, and attach multiple documents. These are ideal to create your detailed profile where you can share your project experience. Google Sites (like Google docs) can be published and shared with everyone. So again just share the link once and people can keep track of you.

Create a blog: Blogs are not only for celebrities or expert publishers. You can also create your professional blog (professional profile) using free blogging tools like WordPress (www.wordpress.com) or Blogger (www.blogger.com). Ideal choice would be WordPress as it allows you to create pages. A blog will be an appropriate choice to show your understaing and work to prospective employers on an ongoing basis. Most suitable for technical professionals, artists, consultants etc.

Create a video resume: Have a camcorder or webcam? Well dress up and create a professional video resume of about five minutes and host it online. You can host it for free on Youtube (www.yourtube.com) or Screencast (www.screencast.com). You can directly share the link with employers or embed the video into your blog.

So you can go ahead and create a profile online. Be an early adopter and create a diffrentiation for yourself by going onlife first. We would love to hear your comments with links to your online resumes here on this post.