what are the main differences between hard copy and online resumes?

Answer 1

Hard copy is the traditional paper that people carry/mailed to in applying for a job. While the oline resumes is the electronic or soft copy. If youre applying for a job in the net, most of the employers are requiring an applicant to fill up the online resumes customize for their company. This format is strictly followed in order for the HR for easily retrieval of information of applicants in the database.

Answer 2

Good question.
On line resume: You go to the company's website and click on the link to submit a resume. A clean document appears on the screen. You type your resume on it and submit it. This resume goes to HR where they print it onto paper (which makes it a hard copy) and put it in a file they make for you.

Hard copy resume: You create your own resume at home, using Word or such, and print it on paper (hard copy). Then you go to the physical address of the company and hand the hard copy to HR.

While the resume is on your computer screen you cannot hold it. Once it is printed then it becomes a thing you can hold in your hands. You can feel the paper. It is a physical thing, a hard copy.

Hope that explains it well enough.

Answer 3

You need a hard copy if you are walking to interviews cold. Hard copy is the paper version.
Online - the computer stored version. It means both the one you posted to the job search boards and the one on your hard drive.
The benefit to the online is you can personalize it to the job you're applying for, and can shorten or lengthen it to include any special skills or traits that pertain to the job.
The benefit to the hard copy is you can always hand it over to a potential employer.
But with both - never - ever - give out your social or date or birth. Name address phone can be pulled from anywhere, but the social and date of birth allow phishers to clone you and steal your identity.

Answer 4

Hard copy is referred to when you give resume printed on paper.
while online resume (or soft copy) is sent thru e-mail, etc.

Answer 5

hard copy is a fancy name for a paper printed resume and online is one sent over computer email

Answer 6

You can be more creative online. On a printed resume you should stick to business standards, but online you can have a nice colour background or trim. You can also add hyperlinks to your online resume where you can't with a paper one.

Answer 7

The content remains the same; only the format that the receiver receives is either a soft copy (online) or a hard copy.

Answer 8

hard copy is the resume or document on paper...

Answer 9

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Answer 10

yo fool, its simple hard copy be the original paper copy and da online resumes r just that. Paperless!~~~~Dont get it twistd. Dont EvenTrip