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I am in the process of creating my on-line portfolio (well, I am more or less finished with it. You can see it here: http://www.donaldj.com). Now I wonder what your opinions of on-line resume pages are in general.

What sort of things should it include? How many links is good? Myself I have liked do about half a dozen pages I have done, and mostly pages I have made through where I work at present.

Would it be good or bad to link to "personal interest" pages? Or what about empty interfaces? or should I just choose the very few that I am most proud of, and not mention any other?

Should the page itself be very fancy, to really show what I can do (many resume pages seems to be of that sort) or would it maybe be better to make it simple and let the work speak for itself? Myself I could not really decide, and ended up making one page of each sort.

Or maybe one should not even make a resume page, but instead just give links to work with any job application you send out?

What about more personal information? At first I had a link to a personal page, but I took that away, as I know you are not supposed to give much personal information with an application, and since the portfolio is part of the application I though it should not belong there either?

I will be starting to apply for jobs in the US soon, and I want my page to be as good as possible before I do. So if anyone has any comments on my page ( http://www.donaldj.com ) I would appreciate that



[This message has been edited by ZOX (edited 01-18-2001).]

haven't we reviewed it before? is this a review? who are you? what have you done with the content of what you are talking about?

you're welcome to make as many pages as you want...there is no stipulation that limits the activity of being informative and somewhat gregarious.

personal interest? why link to that? you might look "human" to a potential employer. can't have that.

....um....if you want the page to be fancy, then do so. if y ou're not in that mood, then don't do it. where's the difficulty there?

way to give yourself a way out....if you want to just have links, then just have links. it's your site. you are your client.

personal information is completely up to you. trust me, they're going to want to know about your personal life even though they can't ask. why? because once you get hired (if), then you're going to have to fit into the group dynamic that is created in the company. if you're actually a bloodthirsty vampire, they'd like to know before they hire you. so, in closing, it's up to you.

....figure out the trend here? it's up to you.

All of what you write is of course true if I just make the page for my own amusement, but I do think it would matter how the page is made in terms of what response you get from potential employees.

I was more wondering if someone has any experience with this. If there is any formats that is more efficient than others? If there are any big "no no"'s that will make a recruiter leave at once.

As for personal interest and info, I have read on many different career websites that in the US you are not supposed to voulenteer any information of that sort. Sound a bit silly to me, but if that's the way it is done, then I am not the one to have my applications turned down just because I want to prove a point. Besides, I am such a boring person that any such info would probaby be to my disadvantage

I have also heard that in the US you are supposed to tell in your application how great and wonderful you are, or else will think there is somehting seriously wrong with you...

But then maybe I am just too concerned about what other might think...

Oh, and yes, I did post part of this page in the Site Review forum a few months back when I started making it, so you are right if you think you have seen it before.

twItch is absolutely correct. Even though you're setting this up for potential employers it's all about you pal. One thing you'll come to realize and hate is that here in the US (everywhere else too?) there are experts on every damn thing you can think of, even folks that will tell you how to present information in a resumé for maximum impact. Unfortunately there are also people that actually listen to these 'experts'. Your call. Be yourself and they'll hire you if they like you. If you get into a position because of a weasel-y resumé that someone else told you how to write then do you have to act like the person in the reumé after you're hired? Maybe that's why there's so many weasels in the workplace...