Create various versions of my resume.
Keep the resumes on Google Drive.
When recruiters ask for my resume, give them the direct link, so that when they click on that link in the email that I send them, my resume will immediately DOWNLOAD to their machine, rather than open for viewing in Google Docs.
The native file viewer in Google Docs is useful, but sometimes you may want to bypass the built-in Google Docs viewer and force the browser to download the file instead of opening it.
Thus if a user has Photoshop on their computer, the PSD file that you have shared through Google Drive will open in Photoshop rather than in their web browser.
When you upload any file in Google Drive and share it, the shared link looks like this:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=DRIVE_FILE_ID
The FILE_ID is unique for every file in Google Drive. If you copy this FILE_ID and use it in the URL below, you’ll get a direct link to download the file from Google Drive (example).
https://drive.google.com/uc?export=download&id=DRIVE_FILE_ID
If you wish to open the file in the Google Drive web viewer, the viewer URL would be (example):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/DRIVE_FILE_ID/view