How to Build Your Online Resume with WIX

okay now that we’ve signed up for our free account now is the time to go ahead and create our template so in this case even in the last lesson we showed how at the tail end just like the template we’ll go through that again and we’ll click the resume and CV section and select the resume template that you want to start with so this one is kind of better suited for me so I’ll go ahead and click this and click on the edit button and it takes just
a few minutes for Wix to go through and populate the template so once that’s done that it’ll show you what the template looks like and you’re loaded into the Wix editor which is very simple to use it’s a really drag-and-drop kind of paradigm in the upper left hand corner you can click on which page you’d like to go to so this template as you can see has four pages to it there’s a home page a CV page a page for projects and also a contact page so
you can navigate by just clicking on the menu item and it’ll take you to that particular page each of the pages is then populated with text elements for the different portions on the screen in this case in the contact it will have blocks for that so we’ll go back to the main screen and I’ll go in the header and I’ll just replace the Gregg st. name with with my name and you’ll notice then there’s a block to go ahead and edit this so it’s pretty
much a drag-and-drop almost like a word processor type paradigm I can highlight the text and then just put my name in and then I’ll just go ahead and put in one line for right now and make that change in that change is made right away so then I’ll do similar exercise if I click on the photo I can select to change the photo and then I can go ahead and upload a photo for my computer that has my picture in it so one of the things for this exercise
is to go ahead and have a lot of things ready maybe a picture if you want to put a picture in your resume and I write that you do since it’s a HTML or web-based thing you want to make it as graphical as possible so I’ve gone ahead and selected this file uploaded my photo and I’ll select that image and just click that I want to use that image on the page and then the editor will replace that image and put it on the page so there we go there’s the
new image there’s a bunch of text blocks for testimonials and quotes and those kinds of things so you can either replace those with your own text or if you don’t care to have those in the template you can delete those and put something else or just leave it blank in that that particular area so again I’ll just demonstrate how to edit the text you just highlight the block of text and click on the text edit button and make the changes so you can go
through block by block on the on the various pages and decide you know what you want to have in your particular text so I’ll edit just a couple more of these just so you can see to feel this again you can highlight particular blocks you can cut and paste when I built my complete template I used a word version that I already had up my resume and I copied and pasted particular things in from the experience section and dates and company names and
that kind of thing just to save time here’s a block that has all your kind of contact information if you have a website you can put that information in contact phone number where you want to employ your potential employers to call you email address it’s all provided there in the template so you can just cut and paste and replace those with your particular settings so same for the skill block I’ll just show you how to quickly add a couple of those
things in really once you do a first couple one of these blocks it’s really the same it’s the the biggest piece of work is just making sure that you have all the material filled in and again if you already have that in a word document or a text file somewhere you can cut and paste a lot of this in raishin and get up and going so once you have some things going there’s there’s some more information in the footer so the information that I change
for the name was in the header there’s also some information in the footer and those show on every page the header in the footer so I only have to make that change at once so the change at the top for your name you can put it on there and if there’s information you’d like to put in the footer to share amongst all the pages you can do that as well so when you get to a certain point I’ll click on the Save button and it will save and update the
website so you want to do that periodically and it also shows you the URL which I’m pointing to right here where your website will be saved to so that’s important to know one of the limitations of the free account of Wix is you don’t have any control over that URL you have to use the stock URL for that and then the other option after saving is publishing the website so if you click on the publish button it will then take the save version of the
website and actually publish it out to the Internet so I’ll go ahead and do that and you can get an idea then if what the site is gonna look like not actually not an idea you’ll get know exactly what the site is going to look like so it’ll open that in a separate tab in the browser and you can just click through and verify that all the information is how you want it so that that’s kind of the process from from a high level is make the text edits
publish and save so now we flipped over this is my completed resume template so I went through and filled out all the pages of information so the home page is complete I also uploaded a text version of my resume they put it on the page so if somebody goes a prospective employer goes there they can actually download a hard copy of the resume that’s pretty easy to do and Wix as well so this is my resume I’m an old guy so I have lots of experience
projects put some sample projects that what’s nice here too is you can put some cons of the particular systems that you’ve worked on logos of companies if you’ve done some consulting work or logos of some of your past employers just to make it a little bit more graphically appealing contact information and you know you’ll want to spend some time just making sure that you’ve got all the information you know properly poured it over over to the
website I think it took me probably about 30 or 45 minutes to to really go through those four pages and put all the information and so again you can just check the link to make sure it’s published to the right place and the only other limitation you have besides not controlling the name is there’s a power bi wix4 and the free version of of the website so that’s really it that’s how to go and publish your resume pretty quick and easy process I
recommend that you do this and give yourself an edge on looking for your next job thank you so much and I’ll see you in the next lesson