tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-44108148840490141192011-04-21T20:32:23.084-04:00The Best Choice of Resume Writing A Blog by the Originator1stbiobloggerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15358248230660460815noreply@blogger.comBlogger211100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4410814884049014119.post-3071345735011259162008-02-17T10:57:00.000-05:002008-02-17T10:58:28.740-05:00

What kind of person are you, character-wise? Do you know? What kind of job do you want? What kind of job will you settle for? How well do your character traits line up with that job or that company's culture? Do you know who you are and who you are becoming well enough to foresee how good a fit you will be with the company? What are you going to do to get their initial 2 seconds of attention?

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My final comment for 2007 is that bioblogs make sense simply for no other reason than good packaging, an art that has been lost in tradtional resumes. When I first got into the resume designing and writing and editing and printing business back in the 70s, it was still a form of "packaging," mostly for VIPs and certainly management-level types. The choice of the typewriter was important (there

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It was about one year ago that BIOBLOGS: RESUMES FOR THE 21ST CENTURY was published, introducing a new art form to the world of resume writing/reading. During these 12 months I have crawled and scrolled my way through thousands of websites and blogs relating to employment, recruiting, writing, creativity, business, human resources, careers, college graduates, graphics, communication arts and the

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It's now complete, the web site you've all been waiting for, the COMPLETE BIOBLOG STORY VOLUME 1. Just go to bioblogging.com and you will find out everything to know about bioblogs, the resumes for the 21st century . . . and for those who wish to stand a head above the crowd.

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The so-called "trend watcher of branded resumes" Deb Dib says there is a "lot of movement" towards 1-page resumes. This is but half the story because what she doesn't know is that we've already been there and 1-pagers need a lot more now than then to make an impact. She suggests leading off with a "brand statement" that portrays your "personal chemistry" and "how you would fit", or in other words

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Bernadette Martin's synopsis of a good bio is that it "sets the stage." Hold that thought. She also summarizes the essence of a bio with "It's your story." [She should trademark that.] Beyond the "straight bio," which is the sort of thing you skim over on BoD reports and such things, there is the "narrative bio," wherein lies all the good and tasty bits and bytes of a person's vision, purpose and

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Thursday's "Brand You World" teleconference was interestig to tune into, which I did for the "Resume Branding" segment with Deb Dib, Bernadette Martin and Megan Fitzgerald providing their insights and experience in the (now shadowy) field of personal branding, which can mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. I suppose we could all agree, however, on the basic premise that we

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If you want to see the "Big Brother" side (the Other Side) of resumes--as opposed to your side, the one you are writing and begging or screaming from--take a look at burning-glass.com's latest resume parsing technology. They can take 5,000 of you job-hunting individuals (with histories, unique stories, complex lives and families, hopes and dreams and capabilities) and churn you all out into

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This is a title I could not resist. Of course, the absurdities are obvious: Britney needs neither a bioblog or to be bare, as there is evidently nothing naked left to her dissected and widely disseminated soul. She's like a cadaver that's seen too many exhumations, too much probing around in the old damaged tissue. And her bioblog, assuming she would be looking for a regular Mary's job (Madonna's

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Interview411.com lists some "terrific phrases to use on your resume" and I am amused at how standardized they are, and that they believe there is something particularly promising in them. Bioblogging would turn them upside down and inside out by using powerful images combined with deconstructed text to create idea-balloons (the wiggling bait) within which these little jabs and bits of job

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While most folks are minimally happy with minimally effective traditional resumes (those chrono-functo-combo confesso-affadavits with the missing stories) there are some in the leading vanguard of highly productive, very talented, graphix-savvy Gen Y crowd that will latch onto bioblogging as revolutionary new-ware for personal branding and communicating creative character at work. As the Italian

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Fast Company's October issue focuses on design and cover just about everything humans drive, wear, live and work in, use and play with. Whatever the particular level that style and design touches--from the shape of our bathtub to the texture of our jackets--we are both consciously and subconsciously aware of its presence, its subtle power . . . and we like it (one reason we pay a premium for it,

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Made To Stick, a new book by Chip & Dan Heath, analyze in considerable detail what works in getting a stranger's attention and what doesn't. Most of us are savvy enough to see through cliches and amateurism these days, having been exposed to gadzillions of product pitches from every living ad-madmen in the last 50 years, so it really takes some smart design work and crafty thinking to get through

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Everybody's an expert these days, on whatever they choose to claim: marketing, branding, lovesex, selfing-up, traffic peakflow . . . you name it. I'm leery of all such pronouncements of deep knowledge about anything (especially my own) and smell a rat in the silo; it looks to me that there's a lot of winking and secret signalling going on, mutual backscratching, you know, "I'll help you pad your

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Here's what I think is the most direct and powerful way to get your bioblog across the table: put it on your blog as a pdf that can be opened and/or saved on the reader's desktop. Remember, it's graphics that generates the interest, not a photo of you, which could lead to negative reactions and possible legal ramifications. Stick with the representational image that you have chosen to signify

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The world is getting smaller and Rupert Murdoch is getting bigger. I can't escape his encircling grasp. To start off, I am an author; Harper & Row was my original publisher 30+ years ago, and they merged into HarperCollins, which Murdoch owns. I am in Murdoch's global stable, one of umpteen thousands of word-hackers (2 books, 4 editions). Before I threw my TV out on the street and got fed up with

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When I was recently interviewed by USA Today’s Anita Bruzzese (45things.com), I found her so interesting to talk to and had so many questions that I got off script and forgot to mention some observations about today’s resume. I summed it up by telling her that trying to make one of today’s traditional resumes exciting is like trying to breathe life into a sock puppet. Here are the 3 main

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If you are afraid to bioblog you might be fearful of revealing your creative character. You need to get over the concerns that somehow you will "tell too much" by being different (by bioblogging rather than resume-ing). You are different, aren't you? Isn't that one of your main selling points? Isn't that what employers are looking for? They know that they are not going to replace one exiting

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When I was recently interview by USA Today’s Anita Bruzzese (45things.com), I found her so interesting to talk to and had so many questions that I got off script and forgot to mention some observations about today’s resume. I summed it up by telling her that trying to make one of today’s traditional resumes exciting is like trying to breathe life into a sock puppet. Here are the 3 main problems

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The July 30th issue of Business Week's MediaCentric article by Jon Fine describes how the newly revamped Nielsen SoundScan system tallies up sales data by measuring "engagement" rather than "page views" of the old days. What Nielsen is focusing on is how long a viewer views a page, not that the page is being viewed, and it this "engagement" that is the critical factor in compiling the algorithm

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"Employers hire character traits, not just skills." I quote myself, as I have been saying this for 40 years. (Check out the 1st edition of The Resume Writer's Handbook, published in 1978, if you don't believe me. It was true then and is even more so now, if that's possible.)My own research that led me to this conclusion was face-to-face interviews over decades with some 5-6,000 workers in my many

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