I had planned to get a hair cut on Saturday evening but was brought to a birthday party at the last minute. Although I made it to the mall around 9pm but the salon was closed.

So I postponed the hair cut to Sunday evening (yup, I only have time in the evening on weekends). The hair salon I wanted to go decided to not open that day. I was told they had to do some event, so they’re closed.

In the end I came back to my work place. Went to Centro and got a reasonable hair cut because I told them I work for the company that owns the mall.

I look different as commented by our designer from the marketing department.

My job interview stuff is coming along nicely. Only few things left on my check list. Still need to personalised my resume, print my own passport size photos, borrow my colleague’s maxis broaband and photocopy some certs.

I went to Emurse.com, a site that provides free resume deposit online. The site is pretty friendly. Sign up and use immediately. You don’t have to wait for email confirmation.

The flow is clear and simple. Editing and changes are reflected live with few seconds delay. You don’t have to click on some save button. Users have the flexibility to add more parts to selected sections such as Job Experience and Education Background  for those who has a lot to list.

After you’ve filled up everything, then you can proceed to choose the layout design for your resume. This feature is rather neat. That means you can have a nicer design.

Once you’re done. You can export your resume to several file types such as .doc, .pdf, .rtf, .html and .txt. User is also given an option to have the resume online. You can have a web address that will point to your resume if you choose to have this option.

You may view a summary of the tour here.

No single resume building tool can give us 100% of what we need. So I still need to do some work but it helped me to shorten my time spent on typing and adjusting the formatting and layout. What I did was exported the resume into document and do some editing from then onwards.

Of course I could still choose to do a print out or save document directly from Jobstreet.com now that they have fixed the thing.

Special thanks to Pooi Kuan from Jobstreet.com who left a comment on my pevious post. I’m glad they did something about it.

Yes I went back to check the printing and save option. I chose to print to Adobe PDF. There is not more ads and Jobstreet logo. I don’t know what happen, the file came out with one (1) page only.

Next I tried saving to document. The table formating is still a bit out but I could fix it by converting tables to text using the table tool.

I guess there is no free lunch in this world. If you want a job badly, you have to put in some effort. I mailed my application this morning. Yey!

Sometimes I use it to apply to other jobs not posted on the website. However, I will think twice now.

I had previously used the “email resume” function on the website. Honestly, I have no idea how my resume or CV will appear on the recipient’s email. Right now I am pretty sure the Jobstreet logo is in there somewhere.

This is bad because that shows I did not put in effort to produce a proper application to the potential employer. I did it the lazy way by sending it out from Jobstreet.

Today I wanted to print out my resume. Guess what? The page is printed out exactly like the Print Preview on web browsers. The Jobstreet logo and ads on the website got printed out too. This is very bad.

Then I tried the “save resume in .doc” function. To my horror, the alignment came out all wrong in the document. No way! I’m not going to use this for my job applications.

So Jobstreet is only good for applying jobs on their website. I am not going to use the resume features on the site anymore.

I have found some other site that allows me to deposit my resume, provides templates and allows exporting to various formats.

When I’m done tonight, I will share with you the results.