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December 9th, 2012 | 
Author: The purpose of traditional resume is to provide potential employer with necessary information to obtain vacant position. The ultimate goal of traditional resume is to facilitate getting a job. Therefore, the intended audience is potential employer. However, not any resume can help a person to find a good job or any job. Firstly, It has to be written professionally because the intended audience is in the professional field. The formatting must be chosen in an official style to represent professionalism of the perspective employee. Secondly, the resume should be filled with relevant information including but not limited to education, experience, skills, credentials, and organizations. The sections must be chosen to underline benefits of the perspective employee. In my traditional resume I have chosen the official formatting. The font is Calibri, font size 12 which is readable and professional. I have bolded the most important information; therefore, if potential employer tends just to skim resumes, he or she will not miss the most important information.
The purpose of scannable resume is to provide potential employer with necessary information of an appropriate format easily found by machines. The ultimate goal of scannable resume is to facilitate getting a job. Therefore, the intended audience is potential employer who does search resumes using machines. The content of the scannable resume should not differ from the content of traditional because if the resume is chosen by computer system, it still should be able provide potential employer with the information he or she needs. However, these two types of resume differ in style. Scannable resume should still look professional but the font chosen should be as simple as possible like Times New roman. In addition, any there should not be any lines or dividers. In other words, only font should be present. The font should not be bolded or italicized. In my resume I used Times New Roman font, size 12 for most of the text with an exception of the most important info – size 14 to make the resume visually organized.
The purpose of LinkedIn online network system is to establish professional connection with other LinkedIn members which can potentially help one find a job or directly look for a job through job offerings offered by the system. LinkedIn profiles are very flexible to build. One can choose section which can benefit him or her the most. In addition, instead of working experience – it has professional experience which allows one to include Internship or other volunteering experiences. In addition, one can add a photo – something that is not included in the traditional resume. Moreover, I have joined some Nursing groups to show my interest n the field.
Timeline is great a way to tell a story: personal or professional. On timeline one can add pictures, video, music, hyperlinks, etc. Therefore, the way story is told is by using more interactive technology. It is more attractive, more visualized. Ii’s purpose definitely not to replace the resume but can be good addition to it if done professionally. I personally value the experience I received working on my Time Line.
Video resume is a short video created by a candidate for employment that describes the individual’s skills and qualifications and is typically used to supplement a traditional resume. If done properly video resumes can assist in getting a job. However, if done badly, it can not only prevent from getting a job but also embarrass a candidate. Once created candidate can upload it to different job searching website along with the traditional resume, or can create personal website and link to it.
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Based on analyzed three job ads on nursing profession the following five criteria were identified:
- EDUCATION: Graduate of an accredited school of professional nursing. BSN preferred.
- EXPERIENCE: Minimum of 1 year clinical experience in a healthcare setting with correctional healthcare experience preferred.
- LICENSURE: Must hold and maintain a current, unrestricted Registered Nurse license in the state of employment
- Valid CPR card/ BLS Certification
- Valuable skills:
***Coordination and collaboration with multidisciplinary team members to facilitate integrated and comprehensive care.
***Possession of clinical knowledge and skills to meet standards as required by specific clinical areas.
***Development, implementation and evaluation plans of care for specific patient populations.
Job ads used:
***For professional I would try to choose:
-font with transitional serif
-classic – more attractive and readable such as Baskerville, Goudy, Garamond, Times New Roman, Bookman, Bodoni, Galliard, Arial, or Calibri.
-official – typefaces with squared-off serifs such as Palatino, Clarendon, or City Compress.
I would combine it with caring font type. I would apply it only for headings to make a contrast for legibility (size and/or weight). I wouldn’t use similar font type to avoid conflict between fonts.
I would not use bold type because it distracts readers.
The font size would be between 10 and 12 to allow for readability.
My name (which should be placed at the top of the resume) would be slightly larger.
Example can be found here
***For my personal blog or so I would choose decorative style. But I would limit it to headlines because it is more difficult to read when applying it for the entire body text. However, it would add personality in my blog.
I would make it color contrast as well as size and weight contrast.
I would try to combine font types to make page more interesting.
Example can be found here
I would make such preferences for each category because of the intended audience. I would use more creative and decorative for my personal papers while more official, readable, and classic for potential employers.
I hope to make my video resume different and interesting. As of right now, the key message would be to show myself as responsible and caring person. I will be dressed in my nursing school uniform. I will talk about my experience which is not as reach as I would like it to be. Therefore, I will try to show what I’m capable of achieving. I will include my volunteering activities. My education with the description of classes I’m currently taking. I will definitely include pictures of myself – something that I wouldn’t normally include in my traditional resume. I will also include my philosophy about nursing and what it means to me. I will talk about diversity making my foreign origin as an advantage.
Video resume is a short video created by a candidate for employment that describes the individual’s skills and qualifications and is typically used to supplement a traditional resume.
If done properly video resumes can assist in getting a job. However, if done badly, it can not only prevent from getting a job but also embarrass a candidate. Once created candidate can upload it to different job searching website along with the traditional resume, or can create personal website and link to it.
The good:
Dress professionally like for in-person interview, keep your video resume short 1-3 min, look at the camera. Practice what you’re going to say ahead of time. Start by mentioning the name (first and last).
Discuss why you would be a good employee and what you can do for the company that hires you. Thank the viewer for considering you for employment.
Ask friends/family to review
Use the video to help the employer get a sense of not just what you have achieved, but what you are capable of achieving in the future.
Be creative, whether that’s with the concept of your pitch, use of humor, clever production values or brilliant editing.
The bad:
Speaking too fast. Unprofessional noisy background.
Don’t mix your personal life with professional one.
Don’t just create a video resume because you can, create one because it’s relevant to the job you want to do.
Don’t send a video resume to a more traditional type of company that won’t “get it.” You might do your chances more harm than good.
Don’t expect your video resume to replace your traditional resume.
Be creative, but professional.
The ugly:
The whole point of a video presentation is to offer a potential employer greater insight into you than a traditional resume can, so just reading aloud the contents of your CV is a waste of everyone’s time.
Don’t put content out there that you wouldn’t be prepared to get to public. Imagine your friends and family watching the clip. If the thought of that embarrasses you, then don’t submit it.
In fact, many recruiters won’t even accept resumes with photos attached for fear of lawsuits. They’re worried that video resumes will invite lawsuits by candidates who could claim bias based on race, gender or age-indiscernible on paper but not on video.
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My name is pretty rare, so my name wasn’t lost. I was able to find only a few pages on myself. Yahoo and Bing search engines were pretty straight forward: I got 1 result with exactly my name while Google gave me few more results slightly related to my first or last name, or combination. It is not a big surprise because I have only been here for three years. Nothing really shocked me or surprised me because I don’t really share a lot of information about myself online. I also have checked my name in my language and I was able to find a few old articles from my school about my participation. So far, I think what you share – that’s what you get.