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Making Your Résumé Come Alive with VisualCV

August 27, 2008
By: Randi Bussin-Career Coach, Personal Branding Specialist

Making Your Resume Come Alive with VisualCV

We watch flat-screen HD TVs, we communicate, capture photo images, do e-mail, and search the Internet through our iPhones, cell phones, and BlackBerrys, and we listen to our own personalized music collection on our iPods and MP3 players. So, why do we still use the same old, boring resume to snare that hot, new job that we want?

Well, high tech has arrived in the resume market, and one such service, VisualCV, offers to reinvent your resume, and, thus, your candidacy for any job. VisualCV takes your flat, nontechnical resume, and gives you a new 3D or HD-type profile.

VisualCV takes its name from the visual image it creates and from the traditional term curriculum vitae, a short account of one’s qualifications, and adds a visual concept to change the manner in which your resume is, as it says: “presented, accessed, and shared.” How do they do this? VisualCV creates a single, easily accessible Web page for you, using your resume, an audio and video interview, and a digital career portfolio.

Combining these facets, VisualCV’s personal Web page for you then features informational pop-ups, video, pictures, and personal information that you can use for job applications, professional and social marketing, career promotions, and business development.

VisualCV says it can do all these things in three easy steps. It will:

·        Create a new look for your resume by moving it to a live Internet document, through a venue such as Word or a PDF, that includes built-in company and university research.

·        Enrich your Web page with video, audio, charts, work samples, presentations, and any other pertinent documents.

·        Share your new Web page identity with prospective employers, your personal and professional networks, and VisualCV’s own database of companies.

The final result will allow potential employers to get a more personal and more complete picture of who you are, what you can do, and how you can make an impact on their company. You’ll be able to present yourself in a unique manner, in a method that is progressive and upbeat, not the same old boring resume. And, you can make multiple versions of your VisualCV identity, geared for different audiences.

 If you’re interested in more information about how to reinvent your resume through VisualCV, check out its Web site at www.visualcv.com or just Google search VisualCV and see how many sites offers tips to improve your resume presentation.

©2012, Randi Bussin, Aspire!

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