The days of pen and paper resumes are quickly coming to an end. Recruiters are shifting towards the Internet as the primary medium for seeking out potential employees. This creates new avenues and opportunities for those in the market for a new career that have never been available before, all of which are easier to manage, create, update, and disperse. The only obstacle is figuring out the most
effective way to create your personal brand online so that the recruiters can seek you out.

The most popular job search websites are so saturated with sponsorships, sneaky advertisements, monthly fees, and on top of all you are submitting your resume into a massive sea with hundreds of thousands of other resumes—reducing your chances of being seen to slim and none.  At ResumeBucket we get rid of the clutter so that it is easy to navigate and recruiters can access your resume in a flash.

So why waste your valuable time, effort, and money when you can promote yourself the same way but in an easier, cost free, and effective way. ResumeBucket lets you get your personalized resume online in less than a minute of signing up as apposed to other websites. You have the option to create a personalized profile with a unique URL with a recognizable name (example: http://resumebucket.com/johnsmith).

One feature that sets ResumeBucket above the competition is our metrics tool. You have the ability to see who is looking at your resume, how many times it’s been viewed, and when it was viewed. Seeing the results in real time is great to check for the effectiveness of getting your resume out to potential jobs. You can easily get your resume out with the premade badges that you can paste into your e-mail, personal webpage, or social media network.

Have more than one resume? Cover letter? ResumeBucket allows you to upload multiple variations of each so you can submit each one accordingly, depending on the recruiters’ interests.  You also have the ability to make resumes private or public and active or inactive if one is still being updated. If you don’t have a cover letter you can browse through our sample cover letters that have been organized based on different career categories.

Having trouble creating the professional resume and cover letter you deserve? ResumeBucket offers professional writing services that will custom tailor you a personal qualifications into a resume that will impress any potential employer.

Not only are you able to do all these things with your resume, you can proactively search and apply for jobs with minimal effort. With the search function you are able to search for thousands of jobs that are relevant to what you want to do.

ResumeBucket has all the services you need to jumpstart your career. Sign up and watch your newfound opportunities unfold. Have a success story? Tell us about it because we love hearing them. With all these options, ResumeBucket.com is your one stop job search website.

Ready to search through colleges? Well now you have that opportunity! Our college search feature is finally live. Just type in a specific area code and career path and we filter in all the potential college opportunities in your area. The feature is set up so that you can hone in on your desired career goal and sort through various opportunities to pick the perfect one that suits you.

For example say you live in Santa Monica and you’re looking to find a college or vocational study in the Web Design industry. Finding an opportunity is as easy as clicking the “college” tab, choosing “Technology/IT”, and typing in the Santa Monica zip code. A few milliseconds later you will land on this page. Check out all the different options available to you!

Sounds easy right? Well it doesn’t get much easier.  ResumeBucket.com has a wide variety of college options to choose from- ranging from Art and Design to Biology to IT and even Massage and Wellness. Any type of path you are looking for can be found by our easy to use college search function.

Most websites will charge a fee to be able to access a similar search function but of course, like everything on Resumebucket, the feature is completely free to our users (similar to our college search and job search features). The only thing we ask in return is that you take a few seconds to give us some feedback by clicking the red tab located on the left side on the search page or go directly to our forum and post what you would like changed on our website. Our new feedback option will help us get more in tuned to our users so that we can make ResumeBucket even better!

So you submitted your cover letter and resume to potential jobs and have no idea when you should do a follow up. Should I call? Email? Or send a letter? All of those ways are effective in small doses. In other words, don’t do all three but choose one.

If a few days after dropping off your resume you haven’t heard back from anyone, it’s time to make that phone call. It maybe intimidating for some, so its always easier if you have a script written out like this one:

This is ______ calling. A few days ago I applied for the ______ position in your company’s ______ department/division. I’m calling to make sure you received my resume and to reiterate my interest in the position.

Anymore than two phone calls is too much. The trick is to sound interested and qualified, not desperate. The CareerDoctor.org puts it in good terms:

“The cliché that fits in job-seeking — unless abused — is that the squeaky wheel gets the grease; in other words, the job-seeker who follows-up — who shows interest in the job and the company — will get more attention than other applicants.”

Some employers don’t like the phone calls mostly because of the inconvenience and time management so they’ll prefer email instead. It is important to be brief and straight to the point. No one is going to read a longwinded email about how much you really want the job and then proceed to ask multiple questions concerning the job. Remember, recruiting and selection process can take months so be patient.

If you have sent out multiple resumes, it is a good idea to keep a record for everything. Make a spreadsheet that has a list of all the places you have sent out your resume too with columns for interviews, follow-ups, and contact information. If you don’t you may lose important information concerning your next job.

The very last thing to remember is “Don’t Give Up!” Be persistent and confident in your job search. It may get low at times but remember that your dream job may just be a phone call away.