why is it convenient and where to do it
Last time I shared a selection of Telegram channels looking for remote work. I am glad that the information turned out to be useful: the article gained 44 thousand views and was bookmarked 127 times.
I will continue the topic of employment. Finding a good vacancy is half the battle, another point is how to safely respond to it. Of course, no one has canceled the standard resume in pdf or doc format. But there is an alternative option that is better in many respects, both for the employer and for the candidate. This is about direct link to the electronic version of the document.
I will briefly tell you what is good about this method of sending a resume, why it is considered safer and on which services you can get a link absolutely free.
What are the advantages
Let’s imagine a situation: you sent a resume to a company and suddenly realize that you made a mistake in the document, for example, you entered your contact details incorrectly. It happens. Corrected and sent the file again. A day later, you won a hackathon – such a fact in your resume would definitely play into your hands. What to do: add information again and send the document to the employer? It will look weird.
С прямой ссылкой таких проблем не возникнет. Вы можете спокойно редактировать свое резюме, рекрутер увидит только последнюю версию.
Now the situation is different: you sent your resume to several companies at once, received an offer in one of them and do not want your data to be stored somewhere else. The attached file cannot be picked up, and access to the document via the link can be closed at any time.
And now for the technical details:
If the company’s mail client has filtering incoming messages, the letter with the attachment may end up in Spam. As a rule, eychars do not view this folder.
A heavy file will not reach the recruiter if his mail is “full” or there is a limit on the size of attachments.
It is impossible to understand whether the employer was able to open your file or not.
Therefore, it is not surprising that many companies ask to attach a link to the response, and not a document, or specify what the maximum weight can be for a file.
Where to make a direct link to the resume
If you are a fan of Canva and use a VPN, then you can create a resume and get a link to its electronic version there. Only here there is one caveat – then it will not work to restrict access to viewing the document. This is the first time I’ve encountered this, but for some reason it’s like this.
In general, the functionDirect link to resume» today provide many resources, but not everywhere it is free. I will tell you about 3 ways available to everyone.
one. On job search sites. For example, consider how to link to hh.ru. After you have designed your resume, set the visibility of the document. If you want to share the link with the employer, select this item:
Next, go back to your document and copy the link from the top line:
And then we send it to the company. Important point! Do not select the first item:
Viewing a resume in this case is available to the company only for money. It will look like this:
2. In Google Docs. With this method, I think everyone is familiar. So just a screenshot:
3. In the online resume builder. I’ll show you how to get a free link to myresume.com. After registering and creating a document on this site, do the following:
Everything. Then you can send the copied link to HR by email or messenger. And there is a big plus here. See what the message will look like in Telegram:
For comparison, here is what the link looks like with hh.ru:
Summarize
Send a document or a link to it – the choice depends on the requirements of the company. Someone asks for a resume exclusively in pdf format, then you can’t argue with that. But, in my opinion, the link gives more opportunities: manage your document: enter new information, correct errors, block access to your data if the work has already been found. What do you think about this way of responding to vacancies?
