• Prepare your resume. Some things in MS Word do not convert to HTML. Images, page headings and footings, and tabs are examples. Make a copy of your resume and remove these. If you used tabs or multiple spaces for alignment replace them with tables.

• Convert to HTML. (Remember, the instructions below assume the document is .docx, which is MSWord 2007 or later.)
  

• Open the document as html as follows:
  1. Open your resume in MS Word. With your resume displayed as a Word document, click the round icon in the upper left corner.
  2. From the drop-down menu, select "Save As", and then "Other Formats". A dialog box appears.
  3. Click the down arrow in the "Save As type" box to get the list of possible file types.
  4. Select the "Web Page, Filtered (*.htm; *.html)" item. (While in the dialogue box, we suggest that you also specify that the file be written to the desktop so you can find it.)
  5. Click Save. (don't exit MS Word just yet)

• Adjust the margins. You now have an HTML document being displayed in MS Word. You may find that the document has no margins. *One way to correct this is to position your cursor at the very top left of your resume and insert a table with two columns and one row. The first cell is the left margin, the other will contain your entire resume. (if you're familiar with Word, this should be a fairly straight-forward task):
  1. Using the Insert drop-down menu, select the Tables item and highlight two cells. This gives you a table with two columns and one row. The left cell will be your left margin so you'll need to adjust its width until it is very narrow thus forming a narrow left margin. The right cell will contain the whole text of your resume.
  2. Cut and paste your entire resume into the right cell. Adjust the right edge of the cell to form a right margin, as necessary.
  3. To eliminate the table grid, right click on the little box in the upper left-hand corner of your table and select "table properties".
  4. Click "Borders and Shading" and then select Settings: None.
  5. Exit the property windows.

  *See below for a way to correct the margins in the HTML version using HTML tags.

• Insert Footing. Insert the following HTML at the bottom of your resume. This insures that users that find your resume via a Google Search will find a link back to your profile page.

  <hr>
  Member number: nnnn  <br>
  Additional Contact information is available on the
  <A HREF="nnnnI.html">Profile Page</a>.<br>
  Software Contractors' Guild
  (<A HREF="http://scguild.com">scguild.com</A>)
  <br><b>
  <font size=-2><A HREF="copyright.html">Copyright</A>(c) 2024 Software Contractors' Guild</b></FONT>
  </BODY></HTML>
  

  Change the "nnnn" to your member number (two places).
  

• Save and Exit Word.

How to Post Your Resume

• Locate the resume update form.
  1. Login. Go to your Profile Page on the SCGuild site using your favorite Web browser. If not already logged in, log in using the 'login' button at the top of the page. In the login screen the user ID field should be already filled in with your member number. You can also use your email address. Enter your password and click 'login'.
  2. At the top of the Profile page, click on the 'post resume' button. The resume entry form will display.
• Upload your resume.
  1. Select the resume slot into which you want to load your resume. If you are not a premium member you can only load an html version into slot 1.
  2. Click the 'Browse' button and locate the HTML file you prepared above.
  3. Click 'Upload resume file'. Your resume will be loaded into the slot. Your resume link should now be visable on your Profile page.
  4. Click 'Finish' to return to the Profile page.
• Review Your Uploaded Resume. Click on resume link under "View The Contractor's Resume" on your Profile page. You should see your modified resume.

Writing your resume from scratch in HTML

<hr>
Member number: nnnn<br>
Additional Contact information is available on the
<A HREF="nnnnI.html">Profile Page</a>.<br>

Software Contractors' Guild
(<A HREF="http://scguild.com">scguild.com</A>)
<FONT SIZE=-2><br><b>
<A HREF="copyright.html">Copyright</A>(c) Software Contractors' Guild</b></FONT>

</BODY></HTML>

NOTE: Do not provide references in your resume. Your clients may not like their names and phone numbers posted on the Internet for the public to see. Anyone that is interested in you will contact you directly for references.