Resumes can be formatted for e-mailing, posting to Internet sites, or scanning. These digital resumes include the same information other resumes do, and they come in the same varieties chronological, functional, or combination.

But digital resumes use simpler, technologically friendly formatting, and they emphasize keywords. This section describes two types of digital resumes: Plain text resumes that can be e-mailed to employers or posted to databases and scannable paper resumes that can be read by computer optics.

Plain text resumes

Resumes that are e-mailed or posted to Internet databases are designed for computer use. These resumes must be written using the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII), also known as plain text. Read the full story

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