Top 5 Free Online Resume Maker, Builder, Creator, Wizard

After you read this article, you will find out:
  • Free Online Resume Builder Comparison Table.
  • Top 5 Free Online Resume Makers.
  • The Most Favorite Free Online Resume Maker for Other People.
  • Related Useful Resume Resources.

Is There any Good Free Online Resume Maker?

Are you looking for a good free online resume maker which can help you to write a winning resume? This page is right for you, if the answer is yes. There are many online resume creator tools available for you to use for free of charge. In the following table, you will find the top 5. First, I would like you to see what all inside the service. Let see a quick overview:

Many people asked me about free online resume creator such as: Is it allows me to post resume online? Are there many templates available in the tool? What type of file format can I export? And so on. From one to another service is not equal. There are differences in both features and interface. Let me provide you some highlights. Free online resume makers like VisualCV and Emurse allow you not only creating resume but also posting your resume online as web page where you can decide who gets to see it.

Regarding to template, there are not so many of them available comparing to desktop resume writing software. But you will find commonly used and standard template. Most of the tool allows you to download your resume in PDF and Text file format, some available in more formats like Doc and Html. Some tools such as JobSpice and Resumizer allow you to create a resume even without registration or having an account at its website.

With resume wizard in the tools, you just answer the questions and fill out your information into the right box. Then follow few more steps, the final resume is created. That is sound simple and easy. Yes it is. But it is not mean that your resume is a winning one. To make a winning resume I recommend you to read this How to Write a Winning Resume in 9 Steps?. Now I hope you get some ideas.

Free Online Resume Builder Comparison Table

The following is a fundamental comparison table of free online resume creators.

Online Resume Makers Description Price Registration
VisualCV A unique free online resume maker tool Free
JobSpice An easy to use free online resume maker Free
Emurse – Resume Builder Create, share & store resume online for free Free
HowToWriteAResume.NET There are both free & premium membership Free
Resumizer FREE Resume Creator A straightforward online resume wizard Free

Top 5 Free Online Resume Makers


The following is a list of top free online resume makers which have been carefully selected.

1. VisualCV

VisualCV is a unique free online resume maker tool. With this tool you can create a resume and make it comes alive in three steps: create, enrich and share. Create: you can create a VisualCV by cutting and pasting from your existing resume in Word, PDF or plain text format. Right away, your resume becomes a live Internet document. Enrich: You can easily enrich your VisualCV, making it a proxy for that first interview. Add one or more video clips that answer standard questions, or perhaps address that awkward gap in your resume. Attach writing samples or your scanned diploma and more. Share: You decide who gets to see your VisualCV. Share it with your professional social network, or in their database of employers who each have their own company. Unlike an emailed resume, you have complete control over who can access your VisualCV.

You can use your VisualCV for professional networking, job searching, business development, and personal brand management. The VisualCV Portfolio lets you easily add and manage your work samples, images, videos, media coverage, diplomas, certificates, or other interesting details about you to enhance your VisualCV.

2. JobSpice

JobSpice is an easy to use free online resume maker. You can create your resume for free in just several minutes with or without registration. As a registered user, you can save and share your resume online. Without registration, you can only create and export your resume into PDF, but you cannot save and share it online.

The process is simple. First, add desired section to your resume page (including Contact Info, Objective, Education, Coursework, Experience, Achievements, Affiliations, Skills, Publications and Custom Section). Then fill out the information into the box. Next, you can choose style for your resume including Cardinal, Brown, Impossible Is Nothing, Green and Simpme, Taleen, Titan, Derivative and more. Then take a preview of your resume. Last step is to save, print, share or export as pdf.

3. Emurse – Resume Builder

You can create share and store your resume online for free with Emurse.com. It allow you to create multiple resumes quickly and easily, safely and securely store your resume, have your resume available whenever you need. Emurse also helps you keep track of both online and offline resume distribution as well as keep notes and set statuses for each event and allows you to set follow up reminders to keep you on task. Additional, it allows you to turn your resume into a website with privacy controls and advanced stats. To use the service, you need to create an account at it official website.

4. HowToWriteAResume.NET

HowToWriteAResume.NET provides an online resume builder solution. You can create a professional resume much faster by using Automatic Templates, PhraseBuilder Technology, Step by Step Instructions, Easy Formatting and Export and Integrated Job Search. There are both free and premium memberships. With free membership, you can create a resume with standard template and can download it as html or txt file format. You do not need to pay anything to print; you can print directly from the format page.

For more features, you have the option of upgrading to premium for a one-time fee. You will have access to more advanced resume templates, more phrase builder templates, the ability to export to doc, docx, PDF, and Open Document formats.

5. Resumizer FREE Resume Creator

Resumizer is free online resume creator which allows you to create a resume with or without having an account at its official website. This resume wizard allows you to format your resume with font type, size and color. The creation process is straightforward. You just need to follow the step by step resume wizard. There are several resume styles available for you to choose. After complete writing, you can download your resume into several formats including PDF, HTML and Text. Without membership, none of your info is stored in the system. With free membership, the benefit is easier editing as your information will be stored in the system allowing you to login to edit your resume.

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Data Comparison Tool in Visual Studio 2010

Introduction

In my earlier article we have discussed about the SQL Server schema comparison tool in Visual Studio 2010 http://www.dotnetfunda.com/articles/article1121-sql-server-schema-comparison-tool-in-visual-studio-2010-.aspx. Today in this article I’m going to explain yet another new tool in Visual Studio 2010 which is nothing but the DATA COMPARISON tool. This tool is of extreme use for the developers to compare data in 2 tables in different environment (in real time say a reference table data should be compared from Development to Production).

Many third party software’s available in market which servers the same purpose for comparing the data between the environments, but with Visual Studio Microsoft has given this functionality inbuilt as a comparison tool so that Visual Studio emerges as a bundled product which servers most of the development tasks and day to day activities which the developers and DBA’s required to do. Microsoft Database server version for Database administrators and developers has provided with many features like database development, version controlling, unit testing, code analysis, code maintenance etc…


Availability

Microsoft has provided option in Visual Studio 2010 to compare the data for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 versions, since SQL Server 2000 support is not provided by Microsoft this version is not included with VS 2010. So both SQL Schema Comparison and Data Comparison are supported for SQL Server 2005 and 2008 versions. These tools are available for the licenses with Visual Studio Premium and Visual Studio Ultimate versions and not available for the Visual Studio Professional version.

Let’s jump into the demonstration on how to use the Visual Studio 2010 Data Compare tool; I’m taking Sql server database data comparison. Let’s see the step by step process on how to use this tool.

Step by Step Process


Step 1 – Open Visual Studio 2010 by moving to Start > Program > Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 > Microsoft Visual Studio 2010.

STEP 1

Step 2 – Once Visual Studio is opened, go to Data --> Data Compare --> New Data Comparison…

STEP 2

Step 3 – You will see a dialog box which requests for the source and destination db and the properties to connect to those db servers as below

STEP 3

Step 4 – Choose the source and the destination DB servers which you want to compare with. If you can see the above image, there are the options available for the comparison like Different Records, Only in Source, Only in Target, Identical Records. Based on the needs these options can be selected to make the comparison of the data. Once the options are selected click on the FINISH button, it will open a new screen.

Step 5 – The new window will show the list of tables and views in the Source/destination servers and the list of columns for each table. You have given the option to select the columns which needs to be compared. The main point to note down here is the tables to be compared needs to have a Primary or Unique Key by which the tool will make the comparison. So Select the list of tables and the constraints as per the requirement as shown in the below figure and click on FINISH button.

STEP 5

Step 6 – Once we click the FINISH button, the tool will start doing the comparison based on the selection we made and gets the result in a new windows as shown in the below image. The window has few sections which gives the user to make analysis of the data which are compared. The options which we gave at the step 3 are shown as output here. The window will have the Count of data difference in both the source and the destination, Count of data difference in source only, Count of data difference in destination only and finally the identical records in both the servers.

STEP 6

Step 7 – In the same window we have some useful information, and guess what are the information’s?? Yes the tool gives which are the difference in the data stored as per the selection we made in the step 3 as shown in the below image.

STEP 7

Step 8 – Finally in the same window we have some more set of information’s like the tool itself generates the insert and the update scripts to sync between the databases as shown in the below image.

STEP 8


Conclusion

This tool is really going to be more productive for the day to day activity of the developers and improves the productivity. Thanks to Microsoft for incorporating these tools into Visual Studio 2010.

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SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Limitation of the View 12

SQL SERVER – Index Created on View not Used Often – Limitation of the View 12: "

I have previously written on the subject SQL SERVER – The Limitations of the Views – Eleven and more…. This was indeed a very popular series and I had received lots of feedback on that topic. Today we are going to discuss something very interesting as well.


During my recent performance tuning seminar in Hyderabad, I presented on the subject of Views. During the seminar, one of the attendees asked a question:


We create a table and create a View on the top of it. On the same view, if we create Index, when querying View, will that index be used?


The answer is NOT Always!


(There is only one specific condition when it will be used. We will write about that later in the next post).


Let us see the test case for the same. In our script we will do following:


USE tempdb

GO

IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.views WHERE OBJECT_ID = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[SampleView]'))

DROP VIEW [dbo].[SampleView]

GO

IF EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE OBJECT_ID = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].[mySampleTable]') AND TYPE IN (N'U'))

DROP TABLE [dbo].[mySampleTable]

GO

-- Create SampleTable

CREATE TABLE mySampleTable (ID1 INT, ID2 INT, SomeData VARCHAR(100))

INSERT INTO mySampleTable (ID1,ID2,SomeData)

SELECT TOP 100000 ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY o1.name),

ROW_NUMBER() OVER (ORDER BY o2.name),

o2.name

FROM sys.all_objects o1

CROSS JOIN sys.all_objects o2

GO

-- Create View

CREATE VIEW SampleView

WITH SCHEMABINDING

AS

SELECT
ID1,ID2,SomeData

FROM dbo.mySampleTable

GO

-- Create Index on View

CREATE UNIQUE CLUSTERED INDEX [IX_ViewSample] ON [dbo].[SampleView]

(

ID2 ASC

)

GO

-- Select from view

SELECT ID1,ID2,SomeData

FROM SampleView

GO



Let us check the execution plan for the last SELECT statement.



You can see from the execution plan. That even though we are querying View and the View has index, it is not really using that index.


In the next post, we will see the significance of this View and where it can be helpful.


Meanwhile, I encourage you to read my View series: SQL SERVER – The Limitations of the Views – Eleven and more….

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SQL SERVER – ORDER BY ColumnName vs ORDER BY ColumnNumber

SQL SERVER – ORDER BY ColumnName vs ORDER BY ColumnNumber: "

I strongly favor ORDER BY ColumnName.


I read one of the blog post where blogger compared the performance of the two SELECT statement and come to conclusion that ColumnNumber has no harm to use it. Let us understand the point made by first that there is no performance difference.


Run following two scripts together:


USE AdventureWorks

GO

-- ColumnName (Recommended)

SELECT *

FROM HumanResources.Department

ORDER BY GroupName, Name

GO

-- ColumnNumber (Strongly Not Recommended)

SELECT *

FROM HumanResources.Department

ORDER BY 3,2

GO


If you look at the result and see the execution plan you will see that both of the query will take the same amount of the time.



However, this was not the point of this blog post. It is not good enough to stop here. We need to understand the advantages and disadvantages of both the methods.


Case 1: When Not Using * and Columns are Re-ordered


USE AdventureWorks

GO

-- ColumnName (Recommended)

SELECT GroupName, Name, ModifiedDate, DepartmentID

FROM HumanResources.Department

ORDER BY GroupName, Name

GO

-- ColumnNumber (Strongly Not Recommended)

SELECT GroupName, Name, ModifiedDate, DepartmentID

FROM HumanResources.Department

ORDER BY 3,2

GO



Case 2: When someone changes the schema of the table affecting column order


I will let you recreate the example for the same. If your development server where your schema is different than the production server, if you use ColumnNumber, you will get different results on the production server.


Summary: When you develop the query it may not be issue but as time passes by and new columns are added to the SELECT statement or original table is re-ordered if you have used ColumnNumber it may possible that your query will start giving you unexpected results and incorrect ORDER BY.


One should note that the usage of ORDER BY ColumnName vs ORDER BY ColumnNumber should not be done based on performance but usability and scalability.


It is always recommended to use proper ORDER BY clause with ColumnName to avoid any confusion.

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