Mar 19 2009
The Best Places For Students To Write Their Resumes
When I originally wrote The Best Websites For Students Exploring Jobs and Careers, there were quite a few free resume-writing sites out there that had a lot of scaffolding to help people write resumes, but only one gave you the option to print it out so it looked nice on paper.
Apparently, over the past year most of these sites figured out that in order to get a job, most people were going to need a hard copy of their resume and not just a virtual one online. So, happily, there’s more of a choice out there, and all of them seem pretty equally accessible to English Language Learners.
In fact, there are enough of them to warrant their own “The Best…” list. Thanks to a recent Mashable post, I was able to learn about more of them.
Here are my picks for The Best Places For Students To Write Their Resumes (not in any order of preference):
Emurse was the original free and accessible online tool to create resumes that I originally listed. It walks you through the process of making one. They basically have a series of text-boxes to fill-in, and have instructions written in simple English. You then end-up with a professional-looking resume. The others sites are organized in a similar way. However, now the other ones on this list make it easier than Emurse to actually print-out the resume.
How To Write A Resume also lets students create their resumes. It’s free, very “scaffolded,” and provides multiple ways to download and print a hard copy.
GigTide is another similar site.
And Razume is the final one on this list.
Resumega is a new and very scaffolded site where students can create their own resumes. Lots of samples are included, and it’s easy to print out the final product.
Job Spice is a new site to create resumes for posting online or for printing out. It’s very accessible to English Language Learners. Demo Girl has also created a screencast on how to use it. My only concern is that it appears you have to download your resume prior to printing it out, which might be a problem for some school computers that are configured to not allow downloads. I might just be missing something, though.
I’d still encourage readers to check-out The Best Websites For Students Exploring Jobs and Careers because it has several other excellent resources related to job-hunting and exploring careers.
As always, feedback is welcome.
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Thanks for the mention in your post! We’ve recently completed a major update to the GigTide application and website. Please feel free to check us out – we’d love to hear some feedback on the upgrade.
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