Now that you are a registered Jobsite user you are faced with a series of choices of how you would like to present your personal details. Perhaps the most important way for you to communicate your experience, capabilities and requirements is through your CV.

When using Jobsite you have 3 options with regards to your personal details, these are as follows:

1. You can upload your CV to Jobsite and make it available for online searches by recruiters and employers currently using Jobsite (‘Distribute’)
2. You can ‘Hide’ your CV on Jobsite, here your CV is securely stored and can only you can access it. By storing your CV it makes applying for specific vacancies on Jobsite without you quick and easy without you having to search for it.
3. You can choose not to upload your CV – but you can email your CV directly to recruiters and employers as a result of seeing a suitable vacancy on Jobsite

How to put your CV online with Jobsite

Putting your CV on Jobsite is easy. To upload your CV simply log on to your ‘My Jobsite’ account and go to the ‘CV management’ box. If you have not already added your CV click the “Enter your CV now” link. The ‘CV Enter’ page will then allow you to enter some details about yourself and the job you are looking for.

At the bottom of the page you can then place your CV on Jobsite, just click the ‘Browse’ button to find the location of your CV. Once you have found your CV, we automatically convert the document into 3 different formats in order to meet the demand of our recruiters.

The formats are as follows:

1. Microsoft Word
2. ASCII (Plain Text)
3. HTML

What now?

It is at this point that you can either tick the box to decide whether you want to ‘Distribute’ or ‘Hide’ your CV. Jobsite recommends that you distribute your CV, this is a very important way of getting yourself known to recruiters and employers. It can boost your chances of finding a job allowing them to match your experience with their requirements.

Should you do choose to distribute your CV it will now be possible for recruiters and employers to find you using the Jobsite ‘CV Search’ and ‘CV Match’ tools – allowing them to match you with vacancies without you having to actively search through vacancies on Jobsite.

The outcome is that you will receive an email or phone call, (depending what contact information you included with your CV) informing you of a suitable vacancy or inviting you to attend an interview.

Are you happy with your CV? – Behind the scenes

When you are happy and have submitted your CV, you can then check how your CV looks by clicking the “View your CV” link in the CV Management box. From here you can view it in the 3 formats; MS Word, HTML and Simple Text.

The reason we save your CV in different formats is to meet the requirements of our employers and recruiters who advertise vacancies with us.

The recruiters make use of different formats as follows:

• Some recruiters choose not to receive relevant CVs directly, preferring instead to view them online. The tool they use to do this is their browser, and therefore the most practical format is HTML.
• Some recruiters prefer to have relevant CVs delivered to them, of these:
• Some recruiters choose to have CVs delivered in MS Word format, which gives them the best layout but the down side is that the volume to download is very large. This works well with clients who have fast Internet connections (or receive only a small number of CVs per day)
• Other recruiters choose to receive the CVs in text format. This works particularly well where a recruiter is perhaps ‘on-the-road’ or they have a slow Internet connection (or receive lots of CVs a day).

Making sure your CV so that it looks good on Jobsite

When submitting your CV to Jobsite formatting changes may well occur, to ensure that your CV retains it’s professional look follow the simple guidelines below:

1. Keep the layout of your CV as simple as possible – try to use plain fonts with no italics and underlining, and no border.
2. Avoid ‘unnecessary decorations’.
3. Avoid the use of Text Boxes: these do not convert well into simple text or html formats, sometimes becoming blank.
4. Avoid the use of graphics. Again these will not appear in simple text or html versions of your CV. They also make the MS Word documents very large, which recruiters do not like.
5. Avoid using multiple tabs to arrange text, instead use a single tab with the correct tab setting. In the text version the tabs may convert to varying numbers of spaces. In HTML format the multiple tabs may force the text to wrap unpredictably over multiple lines.
6. Avoid using tables containing more than 2 columns. Limiting tables to 2 columns means that in html and text versions the text is split to the left and right. Having more columns often ends up with the text being split in an uncontrolled manner across multiple lines.
7. Additionally, where text is put into tables, if there is a short value with a corresponding long description, try to ensure the long description goes in the right hand column. For example; listing exam qualifications: you could either put the name of the exam first followed by the grade; or, vice versa. Putting the grade first followed by the description will give a much neater appearance in both text and HTML instances.
8. Avoid using multi-column page layouts
9. Avoid multi-sectioned documents
10. Don’t password protect your CV
11. Don’t embed other documents

Deleting your CV

If you are not happy with your CV or if you wish to update certain sections or contact details then the simplest way of doing this is to enter the ‘CV Management’ page, scroll to the bottom and select ‘Delete your CV’.

You can now either upload the newer version of your CV, when you are happy with the details, or keep your CV section empty and upload your CV at a later date.