WIL members may submit their résumés for posting on the site. As explained on the main page, you may go public with a standard résumé or, if you would prefer it not to be known just yet that you are looking, you can post a “confidential résumé, which will appear with personal identifying information redacted and the WIL Job Bank Director appearing as your email point of contact.

In the past, we converted résumés to web pages and to PDF (Acrobat Reader) form for posting on the site, a rather labor-intensive procedure. Because of other demands on the Site Administrator’s energies, this is no longer practical. Résumés must be submitted in Microsoft Word, and will be posted in that format. Current and recent versions of the Microsoft operating environment allow the user to export a Word document to PDF, and you may, if you wish, submit a PDF version in addition to a Word version.

Résumés are posted for a period of 90 days. Please email the Job Bank Director if an extension is desired. If no extension is requested, the résumé will be pulled upon expiry.

A Word about Search Engines

Before you submit a résumé you would do well to understand that shortly after it goes online your personal data will be swept up into the databases of the major search engines, of which Google is the best known, and that once there the information can be fetched up with a query of any of its elements, including name, address and telephone number. Moreover, these search engines do not merely catalogue but they also cache this this data, with the result that it will continue to remain accessible to a search for some time, typically several weeks, even after the résumé is removed from the site. It seems, alas, that information age anonymity, like Victorian virtue, is more easily forfeited than retrieved.

We are not aware that any members have encountered problems in this area, though one or two, upon learning of this characteristic of the internet, have times past submitted and then shortly thereafter rescinded their résumés, thereby pointlessly expending an hour or so apiece of the Site Administrator’s not altogether valueless time. It is accordingly hoped that members will give these considerations due weight.