Starting Your Job Hunt On Cuttlefish
Anyone can browse the jobs posted on Cuttlefish for free, but in order to create a personalized resume, apply for jobs, or post job openings for your company, you'll need to create a user account. Lucky you - it's free to create an account, too, and we'll never share your personal information to outside parties.
Create account - user registration
From anywhere on the site, you can get to the "Sign In" link at the top of the screen.
By default, you'll be taken to the Sign In form for existing users. Click the "Sign Up" link in the left navigation menu.
To create a new account, all you need to enter is your email address and a new password. Your password must be at least 8 characters long, and we recommend a mix of letters (uppercase and lowercase), numbers, and symbols.
Once your account has been created, we strongly recommend you fill in some additional details. This isn't strictly required, but information like your full name and physical address will be needed when you start submitted resumes to employers.
Click the user icon in the upper right, and select Account from the dropdown menu.
This will provide the form where you can enter the rest of your personal information. Items like your name, street address, city, email address and phone number will appear in the header of any resume you submit through Cuttlefish. Additionally, your physical location will be used when we determine which job openings to recommend as good fits for you.
Once that's done, you're ready for the next phase!
Click on the "My Resume" link at the top of the screen. If you have not yet created any experiences, you'll automatically be directed to the Experiences section.
Click the green plus-sign to add an experience. Experiences can be for past employment, what schools you attended, time spent in the military, awards or certifications you've won, volunteer experience, or other things you done that might be of interest to hiring managers. Fill in the title you held during that time, or the name of the degree or certificate awarded. Enter the name of the organization that you were associated with during this experience, as well as the city you were in, and the start & end dates.
The industry and skill tags are optional, but are helpful for identifying jobs that align with your experiences. You can enter as many industries (like "nursing", "hospitality", or "aerospace") and skills (such as "truck driving", "programming computers", or "tattoo design") as you want.
Resumes are really just collections of experiences, with a title at the top, and a short paragraph describing your career objectives or summary. (Most employment experts now recommend a short summary over the old-fashioned career objective declaration.)
Then, pick which experiences you want to include in your resume. There are a number of options for how to include experiences.
automatically include all experiences of a certain type, or that contain a specific industry or skill tag
include specific experiences
exclude specific experiences
These three sets of rules can all be used together. For example, you can create a resume that automatically includes all of your professional experiences, plus your college experience specifically (but not high schools), and then finally excluding one particular professional experience that got picked up by the "automatic" step, but was so long ago you'd prefer to not bring it up.
It is also recommended that you create a cover letter to go along with your resume on each application. Cover letters are optional, but can be a big deal. The skills you list on your resume will determine whether you make the hiring manager's first cut, but the cover letter is your opportunity to really shine, and can make all the difference in whether you get called in for an interview. Cover letters will be discussed in greater depth in another post.
Search for a job you like, and click Apply!
There are twelve different attributes you can use when searching for jobs, including job title, skills required, location, pay rate, and the name of the employer. You can search using as many or as few of these options as you like. When you find a job you like, simply hit the Apply button, select your resume (and cover letter, if you wrote one) and submit your application. It's that easy!
One thing to note is that some employers may choose to repost their job listings from other websites, in which case clicking the Apply button may redirect you to another job posting board. Although you cannot directly submit your Cuttlefish resume on other job boards, you can print the resume to a PDF, which you can save to your local computer for use on any other website, for email applications, or to print out for snail mail or in-person applications.
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