Use WordPress for Your Online Resume

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With WordPress, you can now make your own online resume. This will be a good way to showcase your skills and abilities. If you already happen to have your resume on websites like LinkedIn and CareerBuilder, you could still keep it. In addition, it will also be a good idea if you link these resumes on those websites to your own resume website. Since social networks are making it easy for us to link resumes directly to website, it sometimes get overlooked. Therefore, we created an article that will show users how to add resume to their WordPress website.

Resume in your WordPress Website

There are different ways can use incorporate your resume to your WordPress website. The most basic way to integrate your resume to your WordPress website is by directly uploading the file as a PDF or Word document. Doing so will just give you convenience, however, this will require more effort for your potential clients to actually download your file just to read your resume. This may be a disadvantage because files kind of take time to download or open. Remember that time is a very sensitive issue in the online business. A minute waiting for your resume to finish downloading could make a huge difference for others.

There are more effective ways for you to show off your resume in WordPress. In some cases, you might want to create a page that contains text and images that you could manually maintain. On the other hand, using a plug in could also be easier. And lastly, you have the choice to embed your LinkedIn profile into your WordPress website.

There are also two ways on how you want your resume to appear in your WordPress website – (a) as a stand-alone site, which means that your website will have your resume at its front page, and (b) as a page on your site, which means that you link your profile into your sidebars.

Handcrafting your Resume

Scout on different sites that allows you to create a resume. In this way, you will know which fields are deemed important in making a resume. This will serve as your guide on creating a good resume. However, you should know that you can customize some parts of your resume depending on your target audience.

Some of the important fields that should be present in your resume are, Summary, Work Experience, Educational background, Special Skills, Certifications (if you have any), and examples of your work (like links to your blog site to showcase your writing style), and most importantly, your contact information.

In creating the page by hand, you have the freedom of what you want to do with it. You can format it as many times as you like until you get your desired design and content.

Leave it to Plugins

If you want to use plugins, then you are in for a real treat. The advantage in using plugins is that you could leave formatting to them. Copy-pasting texts from one page to the other will not be required if you use plugins. If you choose to use plugins, you get two choices: either to create a resume or link your resume from another network.

Given the fact that a plugin is pre-formatted for its users, less time will be spent in trying to make a resume. All of the necessary sections are already provided by the format. In addition, the user can create multiple resumes and have the freedom to choose which among the resumes stood out.

• Resume Builder

This plug in available for free. It provides four shortcodes that allows its users to display resume, skills, and contact information. First, create a title for your resume and fill in all the necessary blank fields that need to be filled. Do not forget to input your contact information. Moving on, start adding skills onto your resume. Since this plugin uses TinyMCE, editing your resume will be as easy as creating a WordPress post on your website. On the bright side, you can make infinite numbers of resume and choose which one is the best and the most appropriate one to display.

After saving your finished resume, you will have your shortcodes. These shortcodes will allow you to place your resume – full, or only some parts of it, depending on your reference – on different website pages and posts. Moreover, if you feel like you want to alter or edit something in your resume, just go back to your resume and apply the changes you wanted. Lastly, hit the update button in order for your changes to be evident.

• WP LinkedIn

This plugin will allow you to connect specifically to LinkedIn. You can now have your LinkedIn profile in your website by using shortcodes. This will display serve as a portal to your LinkedIn profile. Once your viewers or audience will click on this plugin, it will direct them to your LinkedIn resume. This plugin is fully responsive and completely customizable. This plugin is packed with four widgets; (1) LinkedIn Card that will show you a snippet of your summary, (2) LinkedIn Network Updates that will show your latest activities on various social networking sites, (3) LinkedIn Profile that will focus on showing your work experiences and background, and (4) LinkedIn Recommendations that shows a list of recommendations. Again, feel free to customize and edit everything based on your preference.

Connecting your LinkedIn profile to your WordPress website, in very changes that happen in one of them, the other one website will consequently apply the changes too. Your WordPress and LinkedIn profile has been somewhat synched because of this situation.

WordPress has indeed proven itself to the world of blogging. Moreover, WordPress’ services is not only limited to blogging. It has become a very powerful tool in showcasing your resume and show it to potential clients and customers.

In your case, do you also find WordPress effective in building an online resume? Use the methods mentioned above in order to have less difficult time while you are trying to work on things.