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    Tumblr is another free option. Technically a blog platform, the site offers various layouts that allow it to function more like a landing page, with different posts spread across the page rather than stacked vertically on top of one another as in a traditional blog format. Tumblr is also endlessly customisable and lets users upload or embed media files up to 50 megabytes.
    Regardless of where you create your site, adding a link in the signature of your outgoing e-mail messages under a header like "professional site" is a great way to pique interest and point prospective employers in the right direction.

    THINK BEFORE YOU POST: When it comes to putting work you've done professionally in a public space like the Internet, use caution. Even if you've created a product--be it a video, presentation or packaging copy--from beginning to end, it's still the intellectual property of the company for which it was produced. It could be problematic if you share it without permission. Intuition is a good rule of thumb: if you don't think a current or previous employer would want you posting examples of your work for them online, then you probably shouldn't.

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    YOU MAY BE ONLINE ELSEWHERE: Pointing a company to your LinkedIn profile or professional site doesn't mean that's the only part of your online world they'll see; if a potential boss or human resources assistant finds an unflattering photograph or blog post from you--and there's a definite possibility someone will do a search--it is fair game for them to consider that material reflective of you as a potential employee, even if, to you, it's part of your "private" life. Keep all settings for your social networks as private as possible, and do the same on photo-sharing sites like the ones mentioned above. For better or worse, every public aspect of your online life is now part of your résumé.
    _JOSHUA CONDON, NYT

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