How to Make Your Resume Online-Submission Friendly

A very large percentage of resume submissions occur online. This is largely because most employers don't want to receive resume submissions any other way. However, what they don't seem to realize is that submitting online isn't always user-friendly. In fact, it is often user-unfriendly, making you wish you'd worked with a professional resume writing service that could write yours and submit if for you.

Probably one of the easiest ways to avoid frustration, however, is by turning your resume into a plain-text document before submitting. It will help with annoying formatting issues you're likely to run into while handing over your resume, making the process a little easier.

Why Converting is a Good Idea

As mentioned previously, trying to submit a resume that you've creating in a word processing program very often doesn't look "right" when submitted online. Of course, attaching the resume to an email, or to another program that the employer has requested works fine, however, some employers want more.

Very often, you find that employers also want you to cut and paste the resume and when you do, all of the hard work you put into choosing fonts, tabs and more is lost. Your resume ends up looking a complete mess. This is why if you choose to create a plain-text version of your resume before cutting and pasting, you will save yourself a lot of "prettying-up" work in the long run.

How to Convert Your Resume into Plain Text

So you're probably wondering how in the world you will actually switch your resume over to plain text. Well, some may guide you to simply change the extension from .doc to .txt. However, actually doesn't change the content within.

So instead, you'll need to transfer the contents of your .doc to a text program like Notepad, which comes standard on all computers with Windows operating systems. By simply copying and pasting the contents into Notepad, restructuring the document, replacing bullet points with dashes (-) and bolded section headings with asterisks (***Career Experience***) your text version will look good too.

Isn't it great to know that you can switch your resume to a text-friendly version in just minutes? If you're about to submit yours online, why not make a text version now?