How can I create a resume like this?

Factual Questions
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I would like to solve the dilemma of including all my experience vs. cramming everything into one page thusly: Have a single page file filled with broad highlights. When the reader hovers his or her mouse over one of the highlights, four or five bullet point items will pop up on the screen, explaining the details of this particular highlight.

I thought I might be able to use the “comments” function in Word, but the effect isn’t all that attractive. For one thing, there’s no formatting in the comment–not only do the details lack bullet points, they don’t even have line breaks, so that a big mish-mash of text appears in the yellow box.

I also tried fooling around with bookmarks to a separate place in the document and with setting hyperlinks to a separate file, but both of these methods seem pretty clumsy. I think I really need everything contained in a single file, and have the text appear right there next to or below the highlight.

Do you have any suggestions on how I can create this thing? I’m fairly proficient in Word and can get by in Front Page, but I can’t do much in the way of programming.

Thanks,

DHR

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I would do it in Dreamweaver, with rollovers.

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I wouldn’t do it. Have two pages filled with not-as-broad highlights that are designed to get you search hits when they throw your resume into their database. Details are for interviews.

-lv

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MAYBE do it in HTML on your website, for people who like that kind of thing.

HOWEVER, that would not include the typical HR person who is likely to be reviewing your resume. They like resumes that make it easy to put a few people side by side and compare what they’re getting. That is, if they’re doing anything more with the resume than just scanning for keywords. They really wouldn’t like something where the details disappear when you print it.

That said, a resume is a marketing brochure, not your autobiography. If you have a Master’s degree and some solid experience, many HR folks including me are OK with 2 pages. Or, you can leave off experience before you graduated from college.

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If you do decide to go with an HTML resume, and you will be sending it to folks as a zip or something, then Make sure the final folder has only pages and images.

DO NOT include Front Page extensions or the freaky little text files Dreamweaver creates. (Someone might throw it on a server that doesn’t like those things, also, I hate FP extensions and think they should be killed!)