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Although the economy is purportedly getting better, many people are still feeling the recession hangover. Whether you’re unemployed or just underemployed and looking for something better, it’s important to do everything you can to give yourself a leg up in your job search. One technique is to build a website about yourself in a professional sense, using it to complement your paper résumé.
Benefits of a Professional Website
Potential employers often follow up on interesting candidates by searching for information about them online, which is why it’s so important to be careful with your social media accounts. Control what the public sees, or at least direct them to useful information by creating a professional website that goes over your qualifications much more comprehensively than your résumé can. Your website can also get your name out to employers and headhunters who you didn’t even apply with.
Types of Professionals Who Benefit Most from an Online Résumé and Portfolio
Although posting your standard one-page text résumé on a website can help get your name out, it doesn’t really do much to add to what potential employers already know about you. You want to add more content, usually projects you have completed that potential employers can browse to see concrete examples of your work. Therefore, online resumes are better tailored toward professionals whose work is project-based with a portfolio of past work. These types of professionals include:
- Writers
- Editors
- Graphic designers
- Game designers
- Web coders
- Filmmakers
- Artists
- Musicians
How to Create Your Website
If you think you can benefit from a professional website, it’s time to get started. Don’t let another month slip by without taking this step to improve your chances of landing the perfect job. Consider three major steps in creating your website:
- Design: Use a clean, simple design that won’t distract potential employers from the content. Obviously, if you’re an artist or designer, it needs to look snappy. Otherwise, a clean design with simple lines and colors is fine. Choose a template or create it yourself in a program like Dreamweaver.
- Content: Your résumé itself should only be part of your website. You should create pages for different aspects of your background, with an education page, work experience page, and perhaps even a community involvement page. You should also have a portfolio, either on its own page or embedded within the work experience page. Include photos wherever you can to bring the site to life, but make sure they’re professional and reflect your image well.
- Hosting: You’ll need to make your site live so you can direct potential employers to it. Because your portfolio website probably won’t generate a ton of traffic, one option is to use a cloud hosting service. That way you can get the bandwidth you need when you need it rather than having to pay a fixed monthly hosting fee even when you’re barely using your site.
Having your own website won’t guarantee you a position by any means, but it may make the difference in a competitive job market. Include your website on your résumé, and just as you would update your résumé, keep the website updated as well. Hopefully you won’t need to keep it up long because you’ll land a great job!
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Hi Melissa ! Thank you for sharing a nice topics and it is really awesome ideas in this economic downturn. due to the advancement of internet facility, it’s grwoing job search on internet and there are many job search engines. your ideas can be applied for the right approach in this time.
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Thank you very much Mellisa, actually iam on the way of creating the website of my own for my career purpose. Reading this article really helped me a lot. Thanks much for sharing it.
useful information here about creating your own site
Thanks for nice article
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Very Nice Post Melissa.
I say,why find a job if you can create your own website and earn money from it.
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I think everyone SHOULD have a personal website, regardless of their profession or career. One of the biggest advantages of having a personal website (YourName.com) is that it allows you to control what shows up about you when someone looks you up. For instance if someone were to put my name in Google, I would want my personal page to be the first result on the SERP, and for the person to visit my page for any information that he needs about me.
Plus it looks professional as well, and a well-designed personal website projects a professional image of you!
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Hi, thanks for the article, yes I heard, many employers started to check out the social networking websites before interviewing a person. It\’s a newly invented thing, but it\’s important to keep your personal information as professional as you can. Thanks for the tips.
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Hi Melissa, You know, I never really thought about why folks would get a web domain that was simply their name. But this purpose definitely explains how it would be beneficial. Such an interesting tool to help in landing a job. Fortunately I already have a decent job, but it would make for an interesting project for one of those “just in case” scenarios. Appreciate the ideas!
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I always wanted to create a professional website and show it every time on interviews. This is a professional thing to do. Your advice is amazing, I will definitely work out on creating a professional website.
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Hi Melissa,
Thanks for sharing your overview on starting a website for job search. Idea is Nice .it profesional touch to the work.
Thank You
Shorya Bist
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It is certainly very important to build a profile on the web in this world of Internet and Social Media, the better the profile looks, the better for the person. Companies do a lot of research before inviting anyone for a interview … if they can’t find anything, it is now considered as something suspicious.
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I’d add graduate students and educators to that list. If you’re looking to work in a college environment, you need to show that you have (or will be) published. By maintaining a blog about your research, you’ve got a leg up on the competition. Other recent graduates might have nothing but their dissertation to show for their work; someone with a website can publish a series of smaller research projects and show an understanding of their field.
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hiii Melissa, awesome article this time i am also searching for job by this article i am also create website for my job career
thanks
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Thanks for sharing the tips to create a website for job search … Will recommend this to a friend of mine who was looking for tips on properly creating a pro website.
Nice share Melissa
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Hey Melissa,
Agreed with your points, Having your professional website that displays your experience with portfolio certainly leaves more positive impression than any plain resume.
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Very useful post. Everyone should implement this into their website strategy before they start!
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Hello Dear
i am totally appreciate with your points really this post is very informative post for everyone i always wanted to create professionall l web site really thanks for the sharing me
Thanks & Regards
Sarika
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Very informative article. I never thought having an online profile would benefit you on getting noticed by employers. Thanks for sharing Melissa.
Great info
I use my online portfolio as well for my photography. At this moment I actually get most of my clients through a google search they do and they end up on my site (like teeners photoshoot + name of my city).
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Great read. Me like many other people have stopped relying on other companies for our income. The freedom to create and run your own business is one of the most humble ones
I think that everyone ought to have an online presence in their name. As far as everyone making money from a website, I just think that most people are not knowledgeable enough or capable.
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social media does not have that much value for me , i mean , 70% of the actual fans are bought .
The scam got into facebook to …
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Creating website for your Own JOB purpose is basically a great idea. It improves your Online presence!
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This is the main reason now a days a lots of people are developing their own websites.
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For searching job it’s a unique idea to create a professional website with our information. And yes, we have to take care of our social media accounts also. Redirect the users to the specific website which includes better information about us.
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Nice Article Mellisa
You surely nailed the tips.
To throw more light, when building a website for ur business always use WordPress
and use the Genesis framework
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Hey Melissa,
I agree with you on this. The Internet is everywhere. Employers now go to social medial platforms and visit profiles of applicants. It’s therefore important applicants keep their profiles clean
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I’ve actually even seen people use their website specifically FOR targeted hiring, rather than to compliment their resume. I forget the address now, but one guy had a site like johnwantstoworkatgoogle.com or something like that. On it, he made some nutty video about how he’d be perfect for google, and then on his site he had a resume. So it’s an interesting concept to not only have a site that personalizes your resume, but even specifically targets the company you want to work at.
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I think this is very interesting. I have a number of friends who recently graduated from law school who are looking for jobs. Do you think there is a way they can use a website to market themselves to law firms and prospective employers?
A great idea. I am certin that your practical hints will help a lot of people out of trouble. Online portfolios are a must for some professions in this digital age.
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I created a website for my job search and it significantly helped. Even though I was not searching for a design job, employers really appreciated the ability to see work that I’ve done in my college classes/old internships. Especially when others out there don’t have digital portfolios.
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Everyone needs to have a web presence these days, even, like you stated, if you don’t rank in the search engines. It is a vital part of small and large businesses these days.
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This is good idea to use our own website for job searching. Thanks for giving this innovative idea to us.
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