ResumeBucket, a new resume-building site, offers job seekers a place to put their resume online. Users can register for the site in less than a minute, choose their own URL and create different versions of their online resume.
Founder and CEO Josh Stomel created the site in the summer of 2008 and relaunched it this month. Stomel worked as a recruiter, networker and connector for the past five years and came up with the idea for the site after meeting many candidates who didn’t have resumes, didn’t have updated resumes or had too many versions of a resume.
The relaunch of the site features a new design and increased functionality, including job and resume search options. The site’s services are free to users.
“The advantages of having an online resume are numerous,” Stomel said. “Our users will never have to worry about misplacing or losing their resume. With a max limit of 20 (resumes), users can upload a multitude of different versions of their resume for different employment goals. The resume will be available for others to view at any time and place they have internet access.
“The content of the resume can, by permission of it’s owner, be searchable via top-tier search engines,” Stomel continued. ” With the prevalence of information on the Web and our ability to track metrics within the ResumeBucket interface, users can view real-time statistics on how often their resume versions are viewed. ResumeBucket also allows for InMail features, so users do not have to disclose their personal contact information via their publicly visible resume.”
Stomel said the site relaunch has received positive feedback so far and has seen an increase in traffic, in part because of the current state of the economy.
As far as Stomel is concerned, the future of online resumes holds a tremendous amount of opportunity. The company plans to investigate adding social aspects to the site, as well as functionality for employers to reduce the time it takes to find candidates. ResumeBucket also hopes to form partnerships with other sites that may help improve the user experience.
“With the success of so many career sites, we feel ResumeBucket is the perfect compliment for a job-seeker to consolidate their experiences, education and credentials in one place,” Stomel added.
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December 24th, 2008 at 1:03 am
Would you say they are similar to VisualCV.com, where you can also build numerous online portfolios and resumes – targeted to specific positions, etc.? My understanding is that VisualCV has great funding and has built a huge following.
Thanks for the info here.
March 8th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
They are similar, but resumebucket is much more user friendly. I have an account on both and I stopped using my visualCV account once I stumbled across resumebucket. resumebucket has these pretty cool metrics of who saw your resume and when AND you are able to password protect your resume if you want- I had a crap load of spammers messaging me on visualCV- not cool. The only privacy setting on visualCV was taking your entire resume offline, which makes it so noone can view it (??). Also, I prefer the professional layout of resumebucket over visualCV.