Emurse

We’ve been busy over here at Emurse. Not just in the lab typing our pretty little fingers off, but with working upcoming partnerships and business strategy as well.

We are pleased to formally announce a new pricing structure for the site. While the site will remain 100% usable for free, there are now extra benefits and features for paying members.

Wouldn’t it be grand to quickly and effortlessly be able to create a resume for each job you apply for? You could put it online and password protect it just for their eyes only. Then, when they view it, you could be notified by e-mail right away. That’s the way our members are using the service and what we’ve structured the initial “plus” accounts after.

For $25 a year, you can create and host up to 10 resumes on Emurse. For $99, you can create and host as many resumes as your heart desires. We’re also going to throw in a slew of professional quality resume templates into the mix. Not to mention first dibs on many of our upcoming features.

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Let the Web do popular software program tasks » USAToday.com

Creating a good-looking, useful resume can be difficult. Emurse (www.emurse.com) helps you create resumes that can be shared online or printed.

You can either upload an existing resume or create one. Creating one from scratch takes longer. But you have more options when done, such as the ability to edit and share it online.

Once a resume is created, emurse will post it online for free. It also tracks where you’ve sent your resume, offering reminders to follow up.

We’ve just pushed live an innovative new way to quickly see how your resume might look in the eyes of an online search engine. Introducing the Emurse “Cloud View.”

By analyzing word usage and placement on your resume, Emurse is now able to determine the logical set of keywords that profile your resume information.

In a simple glance, you’ll be able to tell if your resume is the meat or the potatoes. Fluffy descriptions without naming any specifics? It’ll show. The more a word is used, in addition to where it is used, effects the size of the word in the cloud.

It’s most certainly a beta feature, and there are some kinks to work out. If you can, leave us some feedback and let us know your thoughts! With your help we’ll get it tweaked just perfectly

How to: Simply create your Emurse resume the way you normally would. Once you have an Emurse resume in the system, the cloud view will appear on the right hand side of the Edit Content page the next time you refresh. Enjoy!

We didn’t disappear. We’ve just been busy in the lab putting together the largest single update since our initial release. Emurse.com now features an all new share tab, 3 new templates, a load of bug fixes, and a couple of major changes on the backend.

Here’s the goods:

Share Tab

Take a look around. There are Emurse web resumes everywhere. Craigslist, monster, blog posts, myspace — the popularity of this feature brings a tear to our eyes.

We’ve received loads of feedback and requests for improving this feature. We’re out to address every request our community has made. You can now host multiple resumes online (alex.emurse.com/Main/). You can hide specific personal information details on each resume hosted. Combine this feature with password protection and you can be in complete control of your privacy. Would you like to be notified when someone views your resume online? Emurse can now tell you who they are, when they accessed it and what they downloaded it in (if applicable) via an e-mail alert. Wish to activate one resume one week, then deactivate it the next? You can now control which resumes are active and which are not.

Expect even more updates to the share tab soon. If there’s anything specific you’d like to see, drop us a line and we’ll throw it into the mix.

Resume Templates

Crisp - A clean and crisp typewriter look. Sometimes simplicity is the way to go. Easily scanable and readable, just like the olden days.

Polished - It’s got that upscale, trendy feel to it; A polished look for a polished job seeker.

Royal - My new personal favorite. Sporting a deep blue Georgia typeface and a clean layout. A chronological work structure with extra emphasis put on the title.

Better Formatting

We’ve fixed a ton of bugs with our formatting implementation. Bulleting is much more robust and work up to five levels deep. Bold, italics, underline, links and images are all greatly improved as well. Templates are rendered much nicer as a number of small issues were fixed as well. Previewing resumes is also a lot more accurate than it was previously.

As always, your eyes and your feedback are both greatly appreciated! If you find a kink, drop us a note and we’ll get it knocked out ASAP. We have another set of functionality brewing on our side. Expect more exciting things soon!

A user has also developed what will be our first move into the wonderful world of Firefox Extensions. The Emurse.com Quick Send extension is a simple utility that allows you to right click on any e-mail link and send your resume via Emurse. We’ve received some great feedback on this initiative, and have some exciting plans for further integrations in the works! If you have an idea for a project along these lines, let us know — we’ll help provide a reasonable API for you!

In other news…

C|Net recently published their Top 10 Websites For Students. Check out #7. Now look closer. Emurse.com has been listed for the “Online App” category underneath Google. Judging by the other sites that made the list, it looks like we’re in good company Not bad for a project that’s been public for a month.

We’ve been busy polishing, cleaning and responding to mountains of feedback. In an effort to keep everyone up to date, here’s a synopsis of recent activity:

Rendering
The big issue we’ve addressed since our last post is the document conversion code. This is probably the most difficult aspect of our site from a technical standpoint, and being beta, it has not been without its problems.

We’ve drastically changed the way we were converting resumes. We made the changes with the “work smart, not hard” mantra. The result is a more consistent rendering that is less error prone. We should also be able to scale nicely now, which is an important part of our world domination plans

Templates
We’ve expanded our newly added References section to let you keep track of Organization, Department, Fax Number and Website. We’ve also extended the Personal Information section to include website, country, and a second address line

Polish
We’ve cleaned up bits and pieces of the site. A few of the JavaScript oddities and design issues that you may have noticed have been closed. We’ve added a general keep-alive so your session won’t time out while editing. If your laptop goes to sleep, this may act up, but otherwise, its great. There were also some cut-and-paste issues from existing word resumes that we’ve worked out. Another little thing is the ability to bookmark a specific page within the interface. You’ll be presented with the front page login, but will then go to the url you originally requested. It’s the small things I guess