SHOW YOUR E-MAIL SKILLS: Sending an e-mail message and a CV as an attachment is simple enough, but what do you do when you're sending additional materials, like large image files or other supersize attachments? The old method was to attach the jumbo file, cross your fingers and hope for the best. A small evolution of that method was to break the delivery into chunks the recipient's e-mail system could properly digest. (This was often accompanied by an apologetic "Sorry for the seven e-mails. This is the last one!" message.) There is, however, a more elegant solution. For very large media files that surpass an e-mail system's size limit, simply create links to files hosted on sites like drop.io and filedropper.com, which allow uploads of up to 100 megabytes or much higher.

THINK BEYOND THE RÉSUMÉ: With a little creativity, people in almost any profession can make online applications or a personal website work for them. Anyone who creates marketing materials or corporate presentations can post examples of their work onto online photo-sharing and slideshow resources like Flickr and Picasa. Executives who are interviewed on television or radio or who are expected to make speeches can create a simple introductory video and post to a video-sharing site like Vimeo or YouTube.

If you want to gather these different elements together, then you'll want to build a personal website. That's a lot easier and cheaper than it used to be. Anyone with a Google account, for example, can design a personal Google Site (sites.google.com) at no cost using a simple, intuitive interface. You can create multiple pages, easily upload image, audio and video files up to 10 megabytes each, and ensure straightforward site navigation via customisable sidebars.

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