Your CV & your Social Networking Site

Personal Branding for Career – Your CV & your Social Networking Site

With the advancement of social networking, recruiters are increasingly leveraging the internet and the social networking to find the talents they need. Therefore, if you consider yourself a “Career Person”, you need to be very carefully building up your profile through your social networking site, be it your public profile and what you post on blog, facebook, linkedin or others.

In fact, smart recruiters will probably “google” you to find more about you beyond the CV you have submitted. So if this is going to be a fact of life, why not show your blog address on your CV or make your facebook public profile available to the recruiters. Doing so means that you are a much in tune with the new age of digital, which I believe is an added advantage in today’s digital society, and you are professional enough to show your muscle in front of your to-be employers.

Not sure if they still say that or not, that a CV should be no more than 2 pages. I agree to some extent. My CV was 7 to 10 pages all the time. The different is that there is a 2 page “mini-CV” within the 10 pages CV. It’s kind of like an Executive Summary of a proposal. Page 3 to 10 are there to function supporting information or appendix material. The formula works for me very well as my CV did not overwhelm my potential employers but yet they have the opportunities to dig deeper into me if they found me interesting.

Indeed, “Interesting”, is a key point. Frankly if your CV is very interesting, the recruiter will spend their time to read many pages. But you have to be indeed “Interesting” to earn their attention. Do not assume that people have to “respect” your CV and they will read it line by line. No way. It is your job to make your CV interesting! We can talk more about this in future. For now, I think one of the easy ways to expand your CV without too many words is to attach a link to your blog or social network profile. It’s a great Multi-media Appendix material for your CV.

天作之盒 - 彩虹下的约定

尋著你的那天

尋著你的那天 (曲詞:盧永亨)

在那一天 我在塵世尋著你
從前孤單 我從此不記起
你賜盼望 承諾這愛永沒盡期
灰色人生變成絕美

偶然遇上的驚喜

Found this YouTube video from a friend on facebook. Really like it.

偶然遇上的驚喜
《挪亞方舟驚世啟示電影版》主題曲
主唱：梁奕倫
曲詞：盧永亨
新詞：陳守賢

A job interview

A business was looking for office help. They put a sign in the window, stating the following:
HELP WANTED

Must be able to type, have computer skills, and be bilingual. We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.

A dog trotted up to the window, saw the sign and went inside. He looked at the receptionist and wagged his tail, then walked over to the sign, looked at it and whined a bit.

Getting the idea, the receptionist got the office manager. The office manager looked at the dog and was surprised, to say the least. However, the dog looked determined, so he led him into the office. Inside, the dog jumped up on a chair and stared at the manager. The manager said "I can't hire you. The sign says you have to be able to type."

The dog jumped down, went to the typewriter and proceeded to type out a perfect letter. He took out the page and trotted over to the manager and gave it to him, then jumped back up on the chair. The manager was stunned, but then told the dog, "The sign also says you have to be good with a computer."

The dog jumped down again and went to the computer. The dog proceeded to enter and execute a perfect spreadsheet that worked flawlessly the first time.

By this time, the manager was totally dumb-founded! He looked at the dog and said, "I realize that you are a very intelligent dog and have some interesting abilities. However, I still can't give you the job."

The dog jumped down and went over to a copy of the sign and put his paw on the sentence about being an Equal Opportunity Employer.

The manager said "Yes, but the sign also says that you have to be bilingual." The dog looked at that manager calmly and said, "Meow."

Management & Tech Support!

A man is flying in a hot air balloon and realises he is lost. He reduces height and spots a man down below. He lowers the balloon further and shouts, "Excuse me, can you tell me where I am?" The man below says, "Yes, you're in a hot air balloon, hovering 30 feet above this field." "You must work in Tech Support," says the balloonist. "I do," replies the man. "How did you know?" "Well," says the balloonist, "Everything you have told me is technically correct, but it's no use to anyone." The man below says, "You must work in management." "I do," replies the balloonist, "but how did you know?"

"Well", says the man, "you don't know where you are, or where you're going, but you expect me to be able to help. You're in the same position you were before we met, but now it's my fault."