Joining uboast (which hopefully you already have done) or a similar website where you might post a profile that might attract employers iIs a good idea, because it could save you the trouble of having to individually seek out each individual employer. Let's admit the often-overlooked fact that the part of the job search that involves seeking out all those employers and applying to each of them can be incredibly time-consuming.

At the same time, let's cautiously admit that the odds of someone seeking us out before we seek them out is often unlikely. Do not make the mistake of thinking that employers will contact you if you put up a profile up that you're not excused from actively seeking out jobs if you want a job.

Still, here are some strategies for making a profile most visible to employees:

1. Remember that this is a totally different ballgame than sending a resume to a single employer. You're not going to modify your resume to tailor to a single employer. You're trying to attract anyone and everyone who might give you a job. Therefore, it's definitely ok, if this thing runs longer than a page......

2. Emphasize as many skill sets as you can on your resume and if the jobsite (like uboast) has a place where you list your skill sets, list as many as you can there. If you get contacted with a job opportunity you do not like, you could always reject it, but you definitely want them to contact you first. It's important to be in the driver's seat. At the same time....

3. Don't come off as too obvious that you're trying to stretch yourself. Job search websites are aware that candidates always want to try to come off as broad as possible so they can attract the most clients and it's not in the interst of employers using the site to have to wade through every person's resume who has a grasp of microsoft office when they're looking for a hard-care computer expert. For this reason, job search websites, might limit you to 3 or 5 skill sets. If you try to pass yourself off as someone skilled to work in the field of IT simply because you've used excel, it won't look good. 

4. Ideally you want to show that you've followed a career trajectory and have honed your talent over time through a variety of different experiences. If you want to be a teacher, mention that you've worked in summer camps too as a teenager, even if you might not put that on some resumes. This way people can see you've had a number of years or experince in the field. If you want to work in the energy sector and you didn't have a degree in it (not many colleges offer a degree in it), but you took a class or two on it in college, mention that in as well.

5. Drop specifics. If you worked for someone that might be well-known around the industry mention that as well. I once had a job in Americorps, for example. In Americorps, I was contracted out to the Fairfax County Department of Community and Recreation Services and the Northern Viriginia Technology Council singed my paychecks, so I had 3 bosses. It's always difficult to include all of the organizations I was affiliated with in one line of a resume, but it's beneficial to drop all three organizations in case each of those intrigues someone.

-Orrin Konheim (who now has a loose profile on uboast if someone should wish to contact him)