Emurse is a free online service for creating and storing your resume on the web. For starters, the service allows you to fill up forms such as personal information, skills descriptions, work experiences, awards and honors, and education history. The data that you provide will then be automatically formatted to a resume design or template that you can choose from in their website. For the free service, there are 3 available templates. For paying users, I think there are about 10 templates that you can choose from.
So I whipped up my old resume, and copied and pasted some infos into Emurse. The data entry forms were superbly made using AJAX. It took me a minute or two to find the Save button, and a minute to realize that they were already saved on the fly. Cool. Almost everything is done in Javascript. Additional entry forms are created on the fly without refreshing the page. You can even add, remove, and re-order sections. I would have been finished in less than 10 minutes, if not for the evil perfectionist side in me. When you’re done filling up forms, clicking on the Design page will lead you to a preview of what your online resume will look like. Or if you want to change your template, you can do that as well.
Pretty much all data that you will need can be placed in your online resume. Here’s my online resume in Emurse. There’s also an option to save your resume into a Doc or PDF file and other formats. But I couldn’t get that to work though. All in all, Emurse is very easy to use and manage. Updating your resume could never be easier. No more formatting headaches in your word processor. And you can email it as a link to companies that you apply to. This ensures that they are getting your latest resume.
My only problems with Emurse is I couldn’t achieve the format of my online resume to what I have now. And I have specific data such as my projects experiences that I want to be more presentable and easier to read. For me, the projects experiences are the highlights of a developer’s resume. Maybe a good additional feature would be for users to create custom formats. XSLT? Nevertheless, I still recommend Emurse to everyone. There are still other useful features that the service provides. So check it out.