Perhaps the better question is “what is an employment presentation system,” but THAT is getting a little ahead of myself. Resumay is an Employment Presentation System (EPS), not entirely unlike a Content Management System (CMS) or a Wiki. So to answer the title of this blog post really is to answer both questions. Cool, huh (read: SNEAKY)?
Resumay is the current project I’m working on, so let me give a little background first as to why it is the current project. This is primarily because it costs no money for me to develop. I like to develop stuff, and I noticed about a year ago that my creative mind had better adapt to my financial situation. This means that other projects kept getting put on the back-burner until, finally, I come up with an idea that cost me nothing! On top of that, it’s designed to help easily and quickly build résumé’s for use in job seeking. There were a number of different industries I was applying to, and with each came a different emphasis on my skills or experience. So, I eventually wrote multiple different résumés.
I met a handful of people who had similar experiences. So I thought, what if you could quickly and easily (I mean, “Google” EASY) create resumes? I wrote a quick and dirty method that worked for me, and that was fun. That’s when I decided to expand it.
There you have it. What is Resumay? It is a means of managing your work history and being able to selectively present that to employers. The basic version that I’m producing now will makle it possible to manage cover letters, résumés, and references; the advanced version (2.0, if you please) will include an interactive portfolio that you can direct potential employers to. Here’s how it works.
You create an account. You could even choose to use a Google or a Facebook account. Then, you fill out your work history; this is stored privately and securely, you must be logged in to view it, and not even I can see it without your account log-in. Your work history is your contact information, jobs you’ve held, skills and honors you’ve achieved, your education, and finally, references.
Once you’ve entered your work history, you can go and create different types of documents. For résumés, you can identify it by the industry you’re applying in. For cover letters, you can save it according to the company it’s being sent to. References? Same thing. What’s unique is that when you go to create a résumé (for example), you are presented with your whole work history. You can click on a job, and drag it over to the résumé page on the screen. Then maybe you’ll grab that college degree you have and drop it into the education section of the résumé, and so on. Next, you’ll get to style it. You can choose from a handful of cool, professional looks for your resume. Then, you can save it.
Any document you create, including your portfolio, can be exported as PDF or Word document. This is so that you can print it, or send it to the employer, or just host it and your potential employer can download it. SNAZZY!
Mind you, it’s not finished yet. But I thought I’d write about it (talk, talk, talk) to get myself worked up so I can be excited and keep putting it together. More to come, fellow travelers. What do you think of the idea? Would you use such a website?