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| Q: | I share an email address with another person. Is there a way we can both set up a My Home account? |
| A: | You can only have one account opened under one email address. You will need to get an additional email account in order to open up another My Home account. There are several web sites that offer free email services that you can check from any computer; i.e. Hotmail, Yahoo or Gmail. |
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| Q: | How do I update my email address or change my password? |
| A: | In order to change the email address on your account and in our database you need to login to My Home, then click on Account Profile. Enter your new email address in place of the existing address, enter your password at the bottom of the page to confirm your changes and then click Submit. |
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| Q: | How Do I post my resume? |
| A: | Login to your account. From
'My Home' click on the left side link 'resumes' and click 'create
a new resume'. Give your resume a descriptive title.
Copy the text of your resume from the word processing program it was created in, and paste it in the text field that is called 'resume'. Edit your resume for "Text." Hint: Text files do not have formatting such as bold, bullets, color, etc. Make your headers ALL CAPS to stand out and use white space to separate sections. Be sure to hit submit to save your changes. Once your resume has been posted, you can view your newly posted resume by clicking on the title of the resume. You may edit simply by clicking 'edit' next to the title. |
| Q: | My Resume says it's inactive. How do I make it active? |
| A: | You can activate/inactivate your resume
at any time by following the steps below. 1)Once you login, from 'My Home' click 'resumes' in left menu If the box has a check, it is active, and no check means that it is inactive. |
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| Q: | Why doesn't my resume look the same as it does in my word-processing program? |
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Since this is a text-only form, it doesn't always recognize all of the formatting features
available from your word processing program. |
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| Q: | What do the numbers under my resume mean? |
| A: | The Resume Views counter keeps a tally of the number of times your resume has been viewed by employers who accessed your resume off of the searchable database. |
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| Q: | Can I tell which employers have accessed my resume off of the searchable database? |
| A: | We do not track who has seen your resume. Our subscribing employers have expressed their desire to remain anonymous and we honor this request. The employers will contact you if your qualifications meet their needs. You will see a counter that lets you know how many times your resume has been viewed by employers. |
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| Q: | Can my resume be confidential? |
| A: | You have several options when posting your resume on JobsInRI.com. You can make it completely public with all contact information available to employers; you can make it confidential-not showing your contact information, but still searchable in the database or you can create an anonymous Qualification Summary. The Qualification Summary can just be an anonymous list of your skills. Employers can contact you through the site if they are interested in your skills. For more information, please read our Privacy Policy. |
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| Q: | I am not getting any views on my resume. Am I doing something wrong? |
| A: | First, make sure that your resume
is active. If it isn't activated you will not receive any views. If
it is active and still not getting any views, try refreshing by clicking 'edit', making any changes, then clicking 'Submit This Resume'. It will now reflect
today's date as the 'posted on' date. Resumes appear in a search result by most recently posted/refreshed first. Resumes that have been stored
on the database for months without refreshing are further down the list. Another suggestion: make the title more descriptive. 'Executive Assistant' might not have the same appeal as 'Executive Assistant with 10 years in the medical field'. |
| Q: | I have deleted my resume but still receive emails from you telling me that you have found jobs. When I log into my account there's nothing there. |
| A: | The
emails you are receiving are probably the Saved Search Job Alerts you set up on your account. Each Saved Search Job Alert emails you when a job is posted on the site that matches the criteria you set. You can remove your Saved Search by logging in, clicking on the left Saved Search link, and clicking <delete> to the right of each Saved Search title. Or you can inactivate the Search by clicking 'edit', unchecking the box that says 'Make Saved Search Active' and clicking "Update Saved Search" at the bottom. See more information on Search Help and Saved Search Help.
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| Q: | I'm using AOL and I am unable to paste my resume text in the box provided. |
| A: | Many users have had success by using the mouse or keyboard shortcuts to get around this Edit/Paste function issue. First, highlight and copy the text of your resume to the clipboard as you normally would. Then, left-click once in the resume text area, and then right-click and select Paste from the pop-up menu. Alternatively, you can use keyboard shortcuts. Copy your resume, and click once in the resume text area and press the following keys at the same time: "CTRL" "V" if using a PC or "COMMAND" "V" if using a Mac. This will paste the contents of the clipboard into the resume text area.
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| Q: | What does it mean if I get an email that says I have an employer inquiry? |
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An
employer has searched the applicant database has found your resume
or qualification summary and is interested in contacting you. They
send the inquiry, often with their contact information and how they'd
like to have you get in touch with them. |
| Q: | How do I respond to an inquiry? |
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If you click on the name of the person sending the inquiry, you will open up a form that allows you to send a response. The inquiry is considered pending until you do one of two things. First, you can choose 'Yes, I am interested', in which case you fill out the reply form and the employer receives this information. Secondly, you choose 'No, I am not interested' in which case you do nothing more, and the employer receives a notification that you are not interested. If you choose the third option, 'I do not want to respond at this time', it leaves the inquiry as pending. |
| Q: | I recently had an employer note that he was interested in my qualifications. I clicked on "I'm Interested", and all the info went away. How do I retrieve this info? |
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To view past
inquiries, or inquiries you've already responded to, you will need
to login to your account, click "Pending Inquiries", and then click on the "View Inquiry History" link. You can then click on the "from" title to
view the details of the inquiry. |
| Q: | I would like to know what employer made the inquiry, where the employer is located, and what the position is. How do I find this out? |
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Your questions can all be answered by logging into your account and clicking "Pending Inquiries" and then "View Inquiry History". Once in, click on the specific inquiry's "from" line. There, you have the opportunity to read the employer's inquiry information and respond. You can also click on the company name to read their Company Profile. |


