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There is no charge for posting resumes on this site. Your resume will be active for 3 months then automatically removed. Employers rarely look at resumes that are over 3 months old. If you wish to remove your resume prior to the 3 months, you can simply delete it on your own. When your resume posting period is almost over, you will receive an e-mail asking if you wish to renew it. By answering the e-mail, you will be able to renew it for another month.

Anonymous posting advice

1. Don't enter your name. Just leave it blank. Don't enter a "handle" or "screen name".

2. Use one of the many available free e-mail accounts (Yahoo, Hotmail, etc.) and use a bogus user name.

3. Remove all contact information on your pasted resume. Also, you might want to remove your current employer's name. You could replace it with something like "A Minnesota High Tech Company", etc.

4. You might want to remove previous employer's names as well.

5. If you have a multi-page resume, make sure the headings of each page don't contain contact information. i.e. (Page 2 of Jane's resume).

Resume Posting Tips

1. You can include basic HTML tags in your resume. Our auto-formatter is pretty powerful, but clever web coders can bypass it. You can even include links to graphics on your personal resume you have someplace else. Please take into account that some resume viewers have slow Internet connections.

2. Include a cover letter above your resume if handy.

3. If you don't have your resume available, you can just type it in. We will automatically format it.

4. Your resume should include:
Your e-mail address and, ideally, a phone number
Type of work desired (contract, temporary, permanent, all)
The position you would like to have
When you are available
Citizen status
List of skills you are strong in

5. You resume could include:
Salary requirements (may scare some employers off)
Hobbies and interests (only if specific to your employment)
Educational or employment related achievements (very important - especially if you are involved in non -profit trade organizations)
Management experience if applicable.

6. Not getting much action? Update your resume. It puts a new date in it and we e-mail it to companies requesting daily resume updates.

7. Bad ideas
Don't lie! Employers are checking out candidates more intensely these days. Especially don't lie about employment dates.

Keyword Selection

Employers see your keywords first before they see your resume. Please take the time to pick them wisely. The quantity and quality of responses to your resume are directly related to the selection of keywords.

Good ideas

1. Highest degree earned (short description i.e. BA Comm., BSEE, etc.)

2. Acronyms of expertise (i.e. C++, MS Access, Autocad, TCP/IP, LAN/WAN, AR/AP, CPA)

3. Desired position (i.e. Senior Systems Analyst, Human Resources Manager, Entry Level Marketing)

4. Specialties (i.e. Industrial Sales, Legal Transcriptions)

Bad ideas

1. Non-skill related keywords (i.e. "seeks a challenging position", "XX years of experience", etc., Full time, Available ASAP)

2. category names (i.e. Human Resources, Programmer, Administrative Assistant)

3. Complete sentences

4. See resume (Oddly enough people enter this as keywords and nothing else. They are wasting their time!)

Don't skimp on the number of keywords you use. There is a 200 character limit.

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