Notes for Susan's Sample Resume Page
Below you can see Susan's Sample Resume Page on the left, and my notes on the right. These are primarily comments on some of the content and design choices I made in creating the Resume Page.
Following is Susan's online academic resume. It is similar to a traditional resume, but formatted to display quickly and easily on web-browsers. A similar resume for performance could be included on an additional page in this website.
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Susan H. GreenAssociate Professor of MusicSGreen@fakeEmail.com |
Using a consistent site logo can add coherency to a multi-page website. Since this is a resume page, I've used a smaller version of Susan's logo. I could also have chosen to place a photo of Susan here, or just started with Susan's name and contact information. Unless you really want the world to know your address and phone number, I suggest you just use your email address for an online resume. A note about background patterns: it is usually a good idea to give each page of a website the same background pattern. However, special care should be taken on any page that is likely to be printed directly from the web. The background pattern used for all of Susan's webpages has been deliberately chosen to provide interest and contrast, and prints well. Especially for resume pages, I suggest you print out a copy of your own page and see if the background pattern detracts from the printed resume. If so, you should either choose a more subtle pattern or a pale solid background color for the entire site, or elect to use a quiet background only on the pages you feel must print out cleanly. |
EducationMaster of Music, Voice Emphasis, Dynamic UniversityBachelor of Science, Music Technology Emphasis, Straighthorn College, magna cum laude |
Could Susan have put a more detailed resume online? Absolutely! Nearly any style of resume can be adapted for the web, and an unlimited variety of topics can be included. |
Teaching Specialties
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This section utilizes HTML's capabilites to display information in "List" format. |
Professional ExperienceAssociate Professor of Music, Voice Studies Division, Imaginary School of Music 1995-present. Assistant Professor of Music, 1991-1995.Teaching Assistant, Music Theory and Group Voice, Dynamic University, 1988-1991.Instructor, Sandria Community College Summer MIDI Camps, 1988-1991. |
One of the best features of a web-based document is the ability to include active links to further information and related websites. Here, Susan can link to her school's homepage, even though her own website doesn't use school webspace. |
Professional MembershipsThe National Association of Teachers of SingingThe Society for Music TheoryMENC- The National Association for Music Education |
Similarly, here I have found national websites for all of the organizations Susan is a member of, and have linked them accordingly. |
References available upon Request |
It is wise to keep in mind that anyone in the world with an Internet connection can access online information; personal information like home addresses and phone numbers, and those of references are best omitted online. Notice that Susan's contact information at the top of this resume has also been limited to email. |
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An easily understood system of navigation is critical to a successful website. It should exist on every page of the site, be as consistent as possible from page to page, and ideally allow room for expansion as new elements are added to the site. The text-based example shown here is one of the simplest ways of providing navigation; it also loads faster than graphical buttons and displays well on a wide number of browsers. If this homepage was longer or more complex, I might also have listed subsections in the navigation bar; below, only individual pages within the site are linked. If you learn more advanced HTML, you can also arrange navigation in tables, frames or image maps. |
This page was originally created November 1, 1998 and is maintained by Yvonne Dechance.Address comments to webmaster.Copyright 1998-2001 Yvonne R. DechanceSusan Green's Homepage is located at http://scaredofthat.com/ppwebsite/sgindexP.html. |
I create a standard footer for each page of a website. As a general rule, I include a contact email address, the name of the webmaster (person who made the information web-ready, or who maintains or updates the page), and any necessary copyright information. (In a larger site, I would also link in the footer to a separate Legal page.) It is courteous to visitors to either indicate when the page was last updated, or the date it was originally created. The address (URL) of the website is helpful (especially in multi-page sites) both to help people locate the homepage if they've arrived at some other page first, and as a reference for anyone who has printed out pages of a site. |
Additional Notes:Don't get upset if your real-life resume displays a bit differently on a webpage than you're used to seeing it in print. Browsers handle information differently than word-processors, but getting the information to the people who want to see it is more important that worrying over every last detail of formatting. (After I reformatted my own resume for the web, I found I liked it so much better than my traditional resume that I went back to my word-processor and reformatted my print resumes to look more like their web-counterparts!) This is an example of a two-page website, but your projects need not be limited to two pages, or to just a homepage and resume. In this example, the fictional Prof. Green's resume is presented as an addition to a homepage, but this could just as easily be a page dedicated to a topic like Studio Activities, information about one's private music lessons and studio, pictures of the artist in performance, online tutorials or printable handouts for a class...the possibilities are endless. Keep things simple at first, put a manageable amount of information on each page (avoid making the visitor scroll endlessly down a page, or putting large graphics, sound or video files that create long load times), and provide clear navigation to each page in the collection of pages. The first page visitors choose to look at may not be the page you intended them to look at first, so provide enough information on Every page for viewers to understand that what they are looking at is part of a larger collection of pages. | |
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