Is there an easy way to copy/paste a resume from a careerlink website to a companie's website?

OpenOffice is a free “productivity suite” that’s very good and very similar to Microsoft Office. The word processor included should do what you want, I think. It has a pretty good spellcheck too. ;-)

I will check that website, thanks. The problem I am having is I already have a quality resume made up on my CareerLink website and I wanted to copy/paste the resume onto a personal file in a document so I can upload the resume to the employer’s website.

The only thing I’ve found on the web is how to copy/paste a resume to a text box but I already know how to do this. The employer I am referring to does not give me the textbox option, they only want you to upload a resume saved on a file. I want to be able to transfer my resume from a website to a personal file so I can then upload it. I do not have word, office or anything like that.

If you are using a PC you should also be able to do it with Wordpad, or whatever they call it. I’m on my Mac now. I believe wordpad will save the document as as .doc file witch should be fine. If I understand what you are trying to do, and I’m not absolutely certain I am, what I think the only thing you can do is to cut and paste the text from the CareerLink resume into Wordpad or OpenOffice, etc. and then tweak it. I’m not sure if you can get around having to reformat the fonts, margins, tabs etc. after you paste the text into a word processing program. Maybe someone else has a better idea, I don’t know.

@lillycoyote Yeah the only thing I’ve tried so far was to save the resume on my Vista notepad but this does not allow me the option of retaining my original text/font sizes and this feature does not allow me the option to edit individual words/sentences, if you chose a font size the entire resume changes to that same size because it is saved as one single file itself.

They’ve said what you just posted here when I looked this up, that I need a more complex word processor such as you mentioned: Wordpad, OpenOffice or Microsoft Office itself. Is Wordpad something I have to purchase seperately or is there a way to find out if I already have this option on my computer?

It should have come as a standard application on computer. I use a Mac most of the time, so once again, I am answering a question I may not know the answer to but I started and I’m gonna finish… my laptop is a PC. If I could find the darn charger thing I would boot it up to be sure of this so the following information is supplied “as is” with no express or implied warranty for accuracy :-) ... Wordpad is basically a scaled-down version of Word, I believe and should do what you want. You should be able to go to your start menu and find it, it might be the Accessories folder though. Jeez, the PC parts of my brain are starting to reactivate! Don’t PC’s come with Microsoft Works too? There’s a word processing program in Works also. I think either of those would allow you to do the kind of formatting you want. I think Works also has some resume templates you could use if you want. Will someone with a PC help me on this one??

No, the only options I am seeing is my Notepad, Adobe Reader (whatever that is) and Microsoft Office 2007 (which they want me to pay monthly for if I activate it). I wonder if it’s possible to redo my resume on my Gmail account through typing the resume on the email itself because Gmail allows you all the fancy fonting/text options, then if it is somehow possible to upload the resume from my email and then save it to a file. I still think I’m back to square one here because the wording fonts will still go back to the default notepad settings. Too bad the employer’s website doesn’t allow me an email option to send my resume. I have one more trick up my sleeve but I’m not sure it will work, I just may have to cave in here and purchase Office or something.

I was going to suggest google docs – it seems that’s where you’re going. You are going to have to do some reformatting regardless.

Have you tried searching for works? It comes standard with most PC laptops.

@iamthemob I’m not sure if I have Works or not, the only things I see are related to the Microsoft Notepad format and a Microsoft Office tab but it is not included and I would have to pay for it. Well I got laid off so I should have time to work on that resume tonight, or maybe I will go to sleep first since I’ve gotten a headache from trying all day.

Hmm…yeah, you shouldn’t have to search for it. But if you want to, why not just do a search in the windows menu.

I don’t think you tried this…but if you did sorry – did you try printing to PDF? Nitro PDF has a free PDF printing version that you can download. That would save everything with formatting as is, but you may encounter problems with getting extra internet window imagery in the PDF.