Hi,
I would need your advice to verify whether Access is the best software to create a simple database with a few buttons that would keep record of past jobs (but crucially allowing to keep various versions of the same activities). If yes some advice on what should be the structure of this database, or just maybe direct me towards an existing template that I could adapt for this.
The current job search practice requires to adapt one’s resume to the key word of the job description. Maybe you are as tired as I am to rewrite the details of each achievements and search for the great version you wrote a few months back for a job application.
Thanks to the database, none of the variants created in the past will be lost. They can be re-used as they are, or slightly adapted to create a new variant. By keeping the history of each position held in the past and the achievements attached to each of these, the database would allow to quickly create a resume selecting a variant of the achievements containing the key words required by the job description.
Positions and variants selected will be exported in rich text to be pasted in whichever format is to be used for the resume.
Please see the diagram. It's quite simple, but requires to create a dynamic form in Access, and I am not clear on how to create a number of variants for each job achievement.
Thanks if you can direct me to an existing template that I could adapt or a webpage with a similar structure for the database, or give me some direct advice. I would be happy to share the database template, as maybe some of you have the same need.
David
I would need your advice to verify whether Access is the best software to create a simple database with a few buttons that would keep record of past jobs (but crucially allowing to keep various versions of the same activities). If yes some advice on what should be the structure of this database, or just maybe direct me towards an existing template that I could adapt for this.
The current job search practice requires to adapt one’s resume to the key word of the job description. Maybe you are as tired as I am to rewrite the details of each achievements and search for the great version you wrote a few months back for a job application.
Thanks to the database, none of the variants created in the past will be lost. They can be re-used as they are, or slightly adapted to create a new variant. By keeping the history of each position held in the past and the achievements attached to each of these, the database would allow to quickly create a resume selecting a variant of the achievements containing the key words required by the job description.
Positions and variants selected will be exported in rich text to be pasted in whichever format is to be used for the resume.
Please see the diagram. It's quite simple, but requires to create a dynamic form in Access, and I am not clear on how to create a number of variants for each job achievement.
Thanks if you can direct me to an existing template that I could adapt or a webpage with a similar structure for the database, or give me some direct advice. I would be happy to share the database template, as maybe some of you have the same need.
David
