FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — The University of Arkansas Career Development Center is working with OptimalResume.com to provide an easy to use, customized resume building service for all undergraduate and graduate students.

OptimalResume.com provides a comprehensive, Web-based tool for students to create, present and manage their resumes. Now, each student can store up to five individual resumes and return any time in the future to update them, even years after they graduate. The resume output can take many forms, and each student has control over how the resume looks and works, all with a simple, clickable interface. Assistance includes school-specific examples and formats, spell checking, action words and a stylist function to aid in making the resume unique and attractive.

 “These days, everything is on the Internet. Making resumes viewable online is the next logical step for the employment process. Not only do we allow students to post their resumes online, we allow them to customize the look of the resume so that it has the feel of a professionally done Web site. The interactive function enables students to provide employers with additional information or explanations that are not possible with traditionally formatted resumes,” explained Dave McNasby, the chief operating officer of OptimalResume.com.

Kenni Floyd, a junior majoring in marketing and management, tested OptimalResume.com when the Career Development Center began looking at software resources. Floyd, who plans to graduate in May, said, “OptimalResume is the best I’ve seen. It’s wonderful to be able to go to one Web site and find examples and templates of resumes that you can use to build your own personal resume. OptimalResume is the best tool I’ve found for gaining a competitive edge in the job search.”

OptimalResume.com is now available free of charge for University of Arkansas students.  UA alumni are invited to use OptimalResume for a small fee by accessing the same site. To access this resume-building software, visit http://career.uark.edu/ and click on the “Build a Better Resume” button to the right. Contact the Career Development Center at 575-2805 for further refinement of your resume.