FINAL PROJECT: Abstract and Reader's Reponse > Creating a Professional Resume Website

ABSTRACT: If you are a student pursuing a career in the tech or finance industry, chances are high that you have heard you need to secure internships to be able to get that coveted job out of college. Chances are also high that all of your peers have heard this as well. You go to the career fairs that your university has put on and the lines for employer booths stretch into the hundreds. Maybe you wait in line for one of the booths and after a thirty to forty five minute wait, you get three minutes with the recruiter to give them your resume and then to maybe briefly talk about any available opportunities. So how can you make yourself be remembered out of the hundreds of individuals that the recruiter talks to that day? Well one way is by including a link to your resume website on your resume. A resume website is a way to display yourself in a unique way that shows you can also build a professional product from start to finish. There are many different versions of resume websites and they can be adapted to what suits you or your career field best. In the end, this website will be a way for you to stand out above the rest of your peers and land that internship or job you have been vying for.

Word Count: 229

Reader’s Profile: I imagine a non-technologically savvy person freaking out over the idea of creating a website on their own.

Reader’s Response: Okay yes the career fairs are so ridiculously packed. We only get 3 hours and each booth takes at MINIMUM 30 minutes in line. Of course I want to go talk to Goldman Sachs but they probably talk to hundreds and hundreds of people in those 3 hours. Maybe I should consider creating this resume website… but how is it different than just my resume? I think my resume is pretty good so why do I need a website that says practically the same. I wish he told us more about what its going to contain. But if hes saying it could potentially help me land that internship at Goldman Sachs… maybe I should give it a try. Even if I think computer science is magic sometimes.
December 8, 2017 | Unregistered CommenterAJ
A, this looks to be very practical. One thought: would a QR code be a good way to drive traffic there, too? Could you have a business card with a QR code on the back?

QR codes may be fading in use but I actually find them somewhat helpful. We used them in a citizen science project I was involved in....

just a thought.
December 10, 2017 | Registered CommenterMarybeth Shea