Yes! The resume is stored in an html file (with extension .htm) and is ready for deployment to any web site. But, unlike many html files, your resume does not have any links to external files (except our web site, of course). This makes it easy to send via email like any other file. The potential employer can view the resume in Internet Explorer on his own machine in the same way as it would view it over the internet.
The program also produces your resume in Word and text formats. You can email either as an attachment, but be aware that many companies do not allow their employees to receive attachments of any kind. In that case, you can either get space on a web site and send the link in the body of the email message, or you can paste the contents of the text file into the body of the message. If Interactive Resume Builder is running, you can paste the resume as text to the clipboard directly without having to save the resume and find the text file that was written out.
Because we use more advanced features of the browser, we recommend using at least version 6.0 of Internet Explorer to view the resume. We have tested Netscape 6.2 and have found the display to be presentable though not quite as nice as Internet Explorer 6. Netscape does not implement many standard features correctly and we have bent over backwards to provide workarounds that bring the presentation up to an acceptable level.
Internet Explorer can be obtained free directly from Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/ie/default.asp
Some email programs will embed html files in the message but others cannot read html. Try sending the file as an attachment. If the problem is that your friend's email reader won't allow opening html attachments, make a copy of your file and rename it with a .txt extension. Send the .txt file as an attachment and tell your friend to save it to disk and rename it with an .htm extension. From that point, double clicking the file should bring up Internet Explorer.
The program also produces your resume in Word and text formats. You can email either as an attachment, but if your friend’s problem is the inability to access email attachments you may want to try a different strategy. You can either get space on a web site and send the link in the body of the email message, or you can paste the contents of the text file into the body of the message. If Interactive Resume Builder is running, you can paste the resume as text to the clipboard directly without having to save the resume and find the text file that was written out.
Yes! Bring up the HTML version of your resume in a separate browser window and use the categories as a guide for filling in these annoying forms. When it comes to pasting the resume itself, in Interactive Resume Builder go to the File menu and select Export As... then Text to the Clipboard. Then click on the box where you want to paste your resume and press Ctrl-V.
Interactive Resume Builder saves a text version of your resume whenever you exit the program or select Save from the File menu. This text file is identical to the what is pasted on the clipboard so you can use the contents of this file just as well.
Of course you'll want to take a good look at the resume looking for typos and omissions. One way to spell check the resume is to output the resume in Word format and load it into the word processor. Misspellings and the correct spellings can be readily seen in that program. Be sure to make the necessary corrections to your resume in the Interactive Resume Builder program. Of course, if you have any program (such as an email client) that has a spell checker, you can put your resume on the clipboard (via File menu Export As... then Text to the Clipboard) then paste the resume into that program for spell-checking.