As you lick the envelope, ever worry that your paper resume doesn’t quite convey how perfect you are for the position you hope the addressee will soon be calling to offer?
Now there’s eFolioPA to present to prospective employers your fabulous fit for that perfect job.
Pennsylvania’s Legislature and Department of Labor and Industry are beta-testing the new Web site in the Lehigh Valley this month following House Speaker Keith McCall’s public announcement at Leigh Carbon Community College and mass emailing targeted to residents in his district under age 35. Northampton Community College, East Stroudsburg University, Kutztown University and Bloomsburg University are also participating in the early testing of the project. While there is a two-step roll out, the site is already open for business to any Pennsylvanian with Internet access.
“Marketing yourself has gone way beyond the paper resume,” Donald W. Snyder, President of LCCC says. “This tool enables people to demonstrate what they have done and what they hope to achieve.”
After accepting terms of agreement and providing personal information, a user receives a Web address for a site, where professional accomplishments can be posted. Whether looking for a job–or only wanting to display career milestones for professional reasons–the owner of the site can post demonstrations of skills and experiences.
Assuming no technical snags at the $1.5-million site, it will be promoted statewide by the end of February to all Pennsylvania residents, students atPennsylvania universities, and some nonresidents working for municipalities.
“Students graduate with all these skills that don’t transfer to a paper resume,” Bob Caton, Press Secretary to the Speaker of the House says. “eFolio allows them to say not only I am good at video editing, for example, but also here’s where you can see a film project I put together. And it will be helpful as well to human resource directors who can go to eFolioPA for demonstrations of what a job applicant has actually accomplished.”
Source: eFolio, PA House Speaker’s Office, Bob Caton
Writer: Joseph Plummer
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