How to create a decent resume?

How to create a resume database? I am working in a recruitment consultancy,?

• Hello all, Greetings. I am working in a recruitment consultancy, and handling a particular branch office. We come across a number of resumes every day, through walkins, soft copies, posts, etc. Till now, i have found that the resume database had been maintained traditionally, sorting out the hard copies of resumes in different files (according to the stream in which the applicant wishes to go and his experiece like marketing, sales, back office, hr , bpo, etc.) But now, i want to maintain the database in soft, by creating some format in excel (or if there is any other way, please let me know). ofcourse doing entry of each and every resume could be very time taking, but i feel it might be very convinient to sort out candidates later from a database in ms excel, in accordance to my preferences like years of experience, qualification, etc. So please let me know, how should i create the database, what format should i follow etc., so that it could be more effective, fast and helpful for me and people accessing it after me. Thanks and Regards, Louisa James

• Answer:

  Great idea. You can hyperlink the resume title in excel to their respective word files. The columns can be- Source (monster, timesjobs, walk-in), name of candidate, residence area of candidate, experience of candidate, etc.. Create separate worksheets for different industry- BPO, Banking , Finance, Sales, Retail. IT, etc.. Thus you can filter the data and easily go to the best matched profile. Also, rather than typing the resume, just save the resume search in proper folders in your log in or mail to yourself on servers like yahoo for remote access. This way you can also work from home without even paying for job portal accounts!