May 2020

Considerations

This handout is designed to help walk you through the resume development process on the Employ

Florida (EF) website. Some things to consider as you use this guide include:

• Employ Florida is an interactive website

o As you go through any process, screens—or subsequent screens—may change

depending upon your responses to questions, etc.

• Due the interactive nature of EF, screens depicted in this handout can only be a representation

of resume development

• EF will base questions and information requirements on how you respond to questions and

provide information during any activity

o Depending upon how you respond, you may need to provide more, or less, information

and answer more, or less, questions than depicted here

• It is very important you carefully read all instructions on each screen as they may be different

from what you see here

• You must answer all questions and/or provide all information that is identified with a RED

ASTERISK

o If the process will not let you move forward, first make sure all the red asterisked items

have been completed

1—Create New Resume

• If you are continuing immediately from your Employ Florida registration, you will come to the above screen

• If you are returning to Employ Florida to create a new resume, first click Resume Builder option on the Quick Menu located on the left side of the screen

• Once you arrive at this screen, click green Create new Resume button in lower center of screen

2—Resume Name & Creation Method

• Enter a Resume Title—we recommend your title reflect the job or type of employment you are seeking

• Select your Resume Creation Method o Comprehensive Method will build your resume step-by-step within the system o Upload will allow you to attach an existing Work or PDF resume

• This Handout provides an example of the Comprehensive Method

• Click green Next button in lower center of screen

NOTE: A handout covering the Upload Method is available on the CareerSource Research Coast website

3—Resume Availability

• Read the instructions and then respond to the Resume Availability question o Suggest making only completed resumes available to employers o If you intent to complete resume this session, say yes; if not, say no

• Click green Next button in lower center of screen

4—You Have Selected an Option…

• If you said yes to making your resume available to employers, the pop-up above will appear

• If you said not to making your resume available to employers, a pop-up with different text will appear

• In either case, read text in box o Click OK to move forward o Clicking Cancel will take you back to previous screen

5—Desired Location

• Identify Job Search location(s)

• May choose the entire State, an single county, multiple counties, or zip code area

• Suggest you experiment with options o On the next page, our example will use the Specific County (or Specific Counties)

option

• Click on option to pursue

6—Multiple County Location Example

• To select a single county, use top drop-down menu or the state map o Click the down arrow on the drop-down menu and then click on the county you wish

to select (use the scroll bar if needed), or simply click on the desired county and the system will take you forward to the next screen

• To select multiple counties, use the following steps o First click on Select Multiple areas located immediately below the drop-down

menu in blue text o Second, use the drop-down menu to identify multiple counties

▪ Counties will be added to the box below as you click them o When finished, click green Continue Button

7—Desired Locations Review

• Review Desired Locations

• Edit if needed—locations can also be changed at any time by editing in you Background Information

• Click green Next Button

8—Select an Occupation

• Review Selected Occupation

• Use drop-down menu to see alternatives suggested by EF system

• If necessary, search and change by clicking Search for an Occupation directly below drop-down menu o Change if occupation does not match focus of the resume

• Click green Next Button when ready

9—Desired Salary

• Review Desired Salary

• Use drop-down menu to change if needed o Change if salary not appropriate to focus of resume

• Click green Next Button

10a—Profile Information

• Review Profile Information—Entered during earlier registration step

• Edit if not appropriate to focus of resume

• Scroll Down

10b—Profile Information Continued

• Review Profile Information—Entered during earlier registration step

• Edit if not appropriate to focus of resume

• Click green Next Button

11—Profile Summary

• Review Profile Summary

• Edit if needed

• Add new Profile if desired

• Ensure “Display on Resume” radio button is not checked—Right side of screen

• When ready, click green Next Button

12—Drivers License Information

• Review Driver’s License Information

• Edit if needed

• Click green Next Button

13—Security Clearance, Languages, Typing Speed

• Identify Security Clearance status

• Identify/edit language proficiency if appropriate/desired

• Enter typing speed

• Click green Next Button

14—Resume Layout Template

• Modify Resume Layout Template as needed—NOTE this can also be done after all other steps so go to next if you want to modify later

• Use dropdown menu to select template—this example initially uses the Chronological Template

• Modify as necessary o Rename sections as needed on right column—Suggest changing Objective to Profile,

Professional Profile, Performance Profile, or something similar o Use check boxes on left column to select sections to be used—suggest not including

“Detailed References” in your resume o Use blue boxes on left side of template screen to change order of sections—drag and

drop

• Preview sample resume with this template if desired—blue text towards bottom of screen

• If you change template in any way, the system will require you to rename it

• Click OK in popup box if it appears

15—Rename Resume Layout Template

• Change Template Name in Template Name box

• Preview sample resume with this template if desired

• Click green Save button when ready

16—Renamed Resume Layout

• Final review of modified template—now named Bader Chronological

• Create new template if needed

• Click green Save button when ready

NOTE: On this resume we have changed the Objective to Performance Profile, suggest you do something similar as most resumes today do not use an Objective at the beginning.

17a—Education & Training

• Enter Education and Training information o Usually highest level completed o You will have the opportunity to add multiple levels of education if needed/desired o If highest level completed makes you look overqualified, it is OK to use a lower level

• Scroll Down

17b—Education & Training Continued

• Complete entering Education and Training information o Comments not usually necessary

• Click green Next button

18—Education & Training Summary

• Review added Education and Training information

• Add addition Education and Training as necessary o To add, click the Add a new Education History in center of screen o Adding lower levels of education, or even uncompleted education, might be useful if

it is directly related to job/occupation in question

• When finished adding all education history, click green Next button

19—Employment History

• Usually provide minimum of 10 years of Employment History if available

• Click blue “Add Employment History” in center of screen

20a—Employer and Job Title

• Enter Employer and Job Title information o Though entered here, we recommend NOT entering the complete employer address o Complete only red asterisked items—Employer Name, City, State, Country

• Scroll down

20b—Position Information

• Verify Occupation Title and Occupation Code are correct and in-line with resume focus o Search and change if necessary

• Complete Position information

• You must give a complete date in the Date You Began Work Box o Do not worry too much f you cannot remember the exact day o Once the resume if finished, you can use the template to limit date displayed on

actual resume to month/year or just year if desired

• Scroll down

20c—Position InformationContinued

• Use dropdown menu to select reason for leaving

• Enter job description o Take time to develop bullet statements that reflect your knowledge, skills, abilities,

and accomplishments relative to the job o In a chronological resume, the bullets you develop here will be the heart of the

resume, so take time needed for a good job

• Click the green Next button when finished

21—Add This New Employment

• Read the pop-up box and click appropriate option

• For initial resume click OK and proceed

22—Add Skills

• Read the pop-up box and click appropriate box as needed

• For initial resume click OK to add skills to your background information and proceed

• If skills have already been added to background previously, click Cancel and proceed

23—Add Technical Skills and Tools

• Read the pop-up box and click appropriate box as needed

• For initial resume click OK to add technical skills and tools to your background information and proceed

• If skills have already been added to background previously, click Cancel and proceed

24—Employment History Summary

• Review Employment History Summary

• Repeat to add employment as needed o Suggest adding complete employment history going back at least 10 years if possible

• Edit/Delete Employment History records as needed

• Once employment history is complete, use check boxes on right side of screen to identify jobs to be displayed on resume

• Click green Next button when finished

25—Skills Summary

• Skills Summary is used to identify key skills you want to emphasize as part of the introductory element to your resume

• Keep bullets to 2-3 words if possible

• Use a list or table as in the example

• Take time here to decide what skills to showcase as this is a key area on your resume

• Click green Next button when finished

26—Performance Profile

• Develop a 3-5-line paragraph to act as an introductory element to your resume

• This is the first thing the manager will usually read

• Should motivate the manager to keep reading

• Briefly answer the question, “what can you do for me?”

• Extremely important part of your resume, so do not skimp on time here

• Take time here to identify two/three critical skills

• Click green Next button when finished

27a—Name & Address Verification

• Verify Name and Residential Address information is correct

• Scroll down

27b—Mailing Address & Phone Number Verification

• Verify Mailing Address and Phone # information is correct

• Use check box at top left if Residential and Mailing addresses are the same

• Scroll down

27c—Email and Resume Contact Info Selection

• Verify Email Address

• Add secondary email if desired

• Read cautions in RED

• Use check boxes to identify desired resume contact information

• Click green Next button

28a—Resume Content Review

• Almost finished

• Review resume content

• Do not be overly concerned with how it looks on screen

• Will look different if downloaded and printed

• Sub-sections can be edited directly by clicking on BLUE sub-section heading

• Scroll down

28b—Save Resume

• At this point, to complete your resume simple click the green Save Resume & Return button

• On this screen—identified in BLUE text, you can also o Print the resume o Delete the resume o Edit the Title o Copy the Resume o Email Resume o Download Resume

• Consider downloading the resume into Microsoft Word or as a PDF file to see what it

would look like on paper

o There are limited, advanced options available to change printed format.

NOTE: if your resume needs to be formatted for printing, you may consider downloading,

reformatting in Microsoft Word, and let uploading back to Employ Florida. Unfortunately, this

subject is beyond the bounds of this handout. However, CareerSource staff can assist with this

if needed.