• Check out Rebecca Smith's book on electronic resumes.

What's Included

For a nominal fee, you can post your resume online at LISjobs.com to be viewed by potential employers! Resumes are both searchable and browsable.

• Public resumes posted at LISjobs.com are linked throughout the site, and specifically from the employer job posting form and thank you page.

  You have the option of keeping your resume address private and unlinked, if desired. If you upload your HTML resume yourself and wish to keep it private, insert <meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow"> , into your header, which will tell most search engines not to index it. Your unlinked resume will also not be searchable on LISjobs.com.

• Resume posting includes an e-mail address @LISjobs.com, if desired, which can either be forwarded to your current e-mail box or accessed online.

• Your resume will be posted for a six-month period and can be renewed at that time for a reduced renewal fee.

How To Post

Please note that posting your resume at LISjobs.com is not a free service. Do not request an account if you do not intend to pay. LISjobs.com is not an employment service and will not use your resume to place you in a position; your resume will merely be posted online at LISjobs.com.

To post your resume, e-mail rachel@LISjobs.com to request an account. Please include:

1. Your top two choices for your e-mail user name (name@LISjobs.com), if desired. You can use this "blind" e-mail address on your resume.
2. The e-mail address you want your LISjobs.com e-mail to forward to, if desired. Forwarding will be set up for you; you will be able to access the account and change the forwarding at any time.
3. Your full name.
4. Whether you would like your resume linked from LISjobs.com or prefer to keep the address private. (If you do not want your current employer to run across your resume and prefer to give out the address yourself, you will want to keep it private. If you want to increase the odds of employers accessing your resume and have it listed with the others and searchable on LISjobs.com, you will want to have it linked.)

Within two days, you will receive e-mailed instructions on uploading your resume. You can upload and make changes at any time; to post a new version of your resume, just upload it with the same file name and it will overwrite the older version. You can upload your resume in Word, HTML, and/or PDF format, each of which can be searchable from LISjobs.com and from general search engines. (LISjobs.com cannot provide assistance converting your resume from Word to HTML.)

Please limit yourself to posting your resume and related files such as images, letters of recommendation, cover letters, and CSS stylesheets. Resume posting costs $10(USD) for 6 months, and you will be invoiced through e-mail. (Payment may be made via personal check, money order, or PayPal.)

Resources

• See Others' Resumes.
  

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• LISjobs.com's Resumes & Interviews forum.
• Resumes, Cover Letters, and Interviewing from the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin.
• Creating ePortfolios With Web 2.0 Tools by Dr. Helen Barrett.
• Try the Practice e-resume tutorial
• See Creating an Online Resume from Skidmore College.
• ALA-NMRT Member? Try their Resume Review Service.
• "Making Your Cover Letter Work For You from LIScareer.com.
• "Top of the Heap, or Bottom of the (Trash) Barrel?" reprint from NMRT Footnotes on cover letters and resumes for librarians.
• If you're within 6 months of your MLS graduation, you can post your resume for free at ARL's Graduate Student Resume Database.
• You can also post your resume in ALA's JOBLIST database.
• "Punch Up Your Portfolio" from LISCareer.com.
• "Gaps In Your Resume" from LISCareer.com.
• "The Perfect Resume" from Info Career Trends.
• "The Librarian's Portfolio" from Info Career Trends.
• "Crafting a Winning Resume" from LISCareer.com.