Assignment.  Publish your resume to your Cortland web with the filename of "resume.htm".

Purpose.  A professional resume is an important tool for defining who you are, as well as in advancing your career. In academia, the resume is often called the "curriculum vitae" or "C.V." from the Latin, "race of life". The two terms are essentially synonymous and you are free to choose what to call yours.

Most often people prepare their resume when they begin looking for a job. A more fundamental use of the resume, however, can be to serve as a time to take stock of who you are, where you've come from, what experiences and skills have you gathered along your life's path, who have you come to know who will speak up for you (provide references), and where do you wish to go next (what is your immediate and longer term career objective).  As you prepare a resume to add to your web presence, reflect on these themes.

Steps.

1. Read some advice. Even if you already have a current and well-designed resume, you may want to take a look at the following resources for ideas.

Resume-Writing 101 from collegeboard.com

Here are some resume examples:

Bethany's; Chad Jeremy's; Ariel Rose's; Laura's (all in htm or html files)

Ryan's (in word file)

You can find many other examples when looking at others ePortfolios through the links in Week 3.

As your classmates publish their resumes, you may get ideas for revising your own by looking at theirs.

2.  Publish your resume.

a. Create a resume, using your web authoring software (Netscape Composer).

If you plan to use this to find a job, then you may  wish to include an "Objective" sentence at the top beneath your name and address, such as "Objective. To obtain an elementary school teaching position." If you are securely employed, you can omit the usual "objective" section or perhaps state your objectives as a teacher ("To instill in my students a love of science.")

b. Publish this resume to your Web folder at Cortland with the filename "resume.html".

3. Some Notes on Word documents versus Webpages.

If you have a resume in Word format, Word offers the option to save the .doc as a web page.  This may produce a web page that looks okay if you do not have much formatting in your Word document.  More often, the web page doesn't look very good as the Word format gets somewhat messed up in the conversion. 

So I would suggest you:

a. Consider creating a web page from scratch by selecting "New" or "Blank Page" using Netscape Composer.

b. Or save the Word document as plain text, copy and paste that into a blank web page, then edit the format.

4. Note on Linking to Word documents. Note: In this course it is acceptable to just save your Word document as a ".doc" and link that to  your portfolio. But that requires the visitor to your portfolio to open Word to read your resume. It would be best if you could publish it as ".htm". Some people do include a link to their resume saved as a Word document with the link labeled something like "Resume in Word format," which makes both versions available via the Web.

Due date: Week 7, 10/10/05

Acknowledgement: Dr. Patrick Dickson

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