{"id":590,"date":"2012-02-06T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-06T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/?p=590"},"modified":"2021-01-12T09:01:45","modified_gmt":"2021-01-12T15:01:45","slug":"building-a-personal-website-to-get-a-job","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/building-a-personal-website-to-get-a-job","title":{"rendered":"Building a Personal Website to Get a Job"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>You THINK you have a serviceable r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Maybe you have worked with a professional r\u00e9sum\u00e9 writer, or at least have had someone read it over and give you feedback. But you still haven\u2019t gotten a new job. Should you start a website, solely for job hunting, that features your r\u00e9sum\u00e9?<\/p>\n

\u201cI always get good feedback,\u201d Jared Kreiner says of the job-hunting site he designed for himself. Experts say such sites can help showcase one’s talents.<\/p>\n

To some job seekers, a profile on LinkedIn, the business social networking site, is the only Web presence they need.\u00a0Jeff Neil, a career counselor and owner of Be Your Best Coaching in Manhattan, says LinkedIn is \u201cthe primary source for employers looking for candidates online, and a fabulous way for most job seekers to inform colleagues and potential employers that they\u2019re job hunting.\u201d But LinkedIn has limitations for job seekers, Mr. Neil says, including limited space and a rigid format for listing past jobs. \u201cSo setting up a website strictly for job hunting,\u201d he says, \u201ccan be an especially good idea for consultants and people in creative fields who want to describe numerous projects they\u2019ve worked on.\u201d<\/p>\n

Even if you\u2019re not in a creative field, the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 you post on your job-hunting site should be different from the one you might hand to a manager during an interview, says Ms. Isaacs, who is also the r\u00e9sum\u00e9 expert for Monster.com. \u201cYou still want short bits of information, where you get to the key points quickly, but you can create a multipage, online portfolio on the Web and include case studies, a page of references, and testimonials,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s also a good idea to provide your r\u00e9sum\u00e9 in several formats, including Microsoft Word, ASCII text and a PDF file, Ms. Isaacs says. \u201cCompanies have different applicant-tracking systems,\u201d she says, \u201cso you want to accommodate various requirements and give prospective employers the option to choose how they want to download your r\u00e9sum\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n

When posting your r\u00e9sum\u00e9, be more cautious about privacy than you would if you were submitting it to an interviewer. More job hunters are omitting their street address and city these days, Ms. Isaacs says. Some list a post office box for privacy and use a Google Voice phone number, in part to keep their actual phone number private. \u201cI\u2019ve heard of an employer googling a candidate\u2019s address before deciding whether to interview the person,\u201d she says. \u201cYou don\u2019t know what a hiring manager might deduce from a street location, and it might just take two clicks to find that information.\u201d<\/p>\n

Richard Deosingh, a regional vice president of the staffing firm Robert Half International, suggests making your e-mail address or a phone number easily accessible.\u201d Put it on every page of your Web site; don\u2019t make a recruiter work to find it,\u201d he says. He also advises including a brief biography and updating your site regularly.<\/p>\n

When he wanted to change jobs last June, Jared Kreiner, a public relations account supervisor in New York, designed his own job-hunting site, www.jaredkreiner.com. Shortly afterward, a former colleague who was about to leave the public relations firm G. S. Schwartz & Company recommended Mr. Kreiner to her manager as a possibility to replace her \u2014 and mentioned his Web site. \u201cI think my site helped me get the job,\u201d Mr. Kreiner says. He removed his r\u00e9sum\u00e9 when he started work, but reposted it when he was laid off last December because of cost cuts. He is now actively promoting the site.<\/p>\n

Mr. Kreiner includes his Web site\u2019s URL in online applications and in cover letters, and uses Google Analytics to find out how many people have visited his site and downloaded his r\u00e9sum\u00e9. \u201cI always get good feedback,\u201d he said. \u201cPeople I\u2019ve interviewed with have said my site helped them decide whether or not to meet with me and that they forwarded the URL to their colleagues and every other person I would potentially be meeting with in the interview process.\u201d He says that he has had several interviews in the last few weeks, and that a few companies have called him back two or three times. It \u201cwas a great way to break through the noise.\u201d courtesy of \u00a0The New York Times Job Market<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You THINK you have a serviceable r\u00e9sum\u00e9. Maybe you have worked with a professional r\u00e9sum\u00e9 writer, or at least have had someone read it over and give you feedback. But you still haven\u2019t gotten a new job. Should you start a website, solely for job hunting, that features your r\u00e9sum\u00e9? \u201cI always get good feedback,\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":591,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-tips-insight"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/591"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beachsmith.com\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}