Your resume on a Squidoo lens?
I like resumes very much - although I have a great job, I open my CV once a month, and I make some minor modifications. It's very nice to see my resume developing. And, when the time is right and I want to find another job, my CV will be perfect. There are two serious problems with "paper" resumes, though, so I wonder: is it worth creating a CV lens? I think the answer is YES.
Contents at a Glance
A quick question for you
Cons of 'paper' CVs
I like resumes very much - although I have a good job, I open my CV once a month, and I make some minor modifications. It's very nice to see my resume developing. And, when the time is right and I want to find another job, my CV will be perfect. There are two problems with "paper" CVs, though.
The first is that you need to protect the document from being deleted. Your computer can collapse, someone else can accidentally delete the file, etc, so you have to copy it to your USB drive, upload it into your email account or website space. This is inconvenient, and can be dangerous if you forget to save your CV. In addition, pendrives can disappear or be stolen, accounts can be suspended.
The second problem is when you modificate your CV often and copy it to many places, you won't be able to decide which is the latest version. You may send an old CV to a company, which can cause you many troubles during the interview.
As you can see, the paper CVs are not perfect. You can also create a website with your data on it, but it's neither free nor easy. You need to register a domain, you need webhosting, you have to create and regularly update the page itself... Too much work and money.
What you need in addtition to your paper and/or pdf version is a free online solution. Something that looks cool, and where you can update your data easily. And this is Squidoo :)
Pros for resume lenses
- A squidoo lens looks amazing
- Lens can be created in 20 minutes
- Updating and keeping your lens fresh is extremely easy
- You will only have the latest version of your CV
- It's always accessible everywhere
- It's a unique thing that very few people have
Lens creation steps
In the next part I'll show you how I made my own Squidoo resume lens. I've created it in four easy steps, then I opened my CV and filled the lens modules with data.
While you are following these steps, you can always check my CV lens.
Step 1 - Your name
Just fill in the cell with your name. If you have a common name, use 'Firstname-Lastname-CV'.
Include your title, if you have any (e.g. PhD, MD).
Step 2 - Choose topics
You need to choose a topic and two subtopics. I would use Business&Work \ Employment \ Resumes.
Step 3 - The picture
Don't forget to upload a good picture of you by clicking on 'Open Graph tag'.
Choose 'Person' from the list, then put your name into the 'Person's name' cell.
Step 4 - Tags
You can use the word 'Resume' for the first tag, then two profession names for the other two.
Lens is created
Congratulations! You've just created the lens. Let's add more content.
Any suggestions?
Please share your ideas with us regarding the first steps!
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Rakeitin
Feb 14, 2012 @ 9:43 pm | delete
- Use keywords to highlight what your all about. Then explain each keyword. For myself, I'm all about Automatic Residual Income. I help people achieve the same
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Next step: add modules!
You need about 5-10 text modules, 6 Blackbox modules and a Guestbook Comment module.
You can also use:
- Video module
- Photo gallery module
- Link list module
- About me module
The main parts
- 1Employment (your work experience)
- 2Education (schools, trainings, courses)
- 3Professional skills (those skills that you are using at work)
- 4Language skills (it's a huge plus if you speak more than one languages)
- 5Interests and hobbies
- 6Contact information (address, email address, phone number, Facebook address, etc.)
- 7Optional: achievements (in sports, college or your personal life)
Fill your lens with life!
You can write about yourself, post pictures or videos.
You can also add a short desciption about your strengths and your personality.
Very important rules!
Be serious. A resume must be formal - do not post any funny pictures or videos!
Show your uniqueness. If you have a creative profession (artist, designer, writer, etc.), post samples of your works!
Triple check grammar. Your resume mustn't contain any grammatical error or mistyping.
Lens structure
You need to arrange your modules as following:
1st Blackbox Module (Employment)
Text module (your current or last job)
Text module (previous job)
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2nd Blackbox Module (Education)
Text module (College)
Text module (Professional courses)
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...and so on. Include all the key information.
Stop for a quick queston
You're almost finished, but you can add more content.
Some ideas
- Your thesis
- The pdf version of your CV
(Instructions)
- Your works (pictures, articles, website designs)
- Links to companies where you worked, the schools and courses you attended
- A table of contents
QR-code as contact information
More and more people put a QR-code into their resume, because these codes are very useful and, in addition, they look nice.
Our contact information could get into the smartphone of the HR specialist in an instant. Besides, we can make our resume even more unique - a QR code is not a frequently used object on CVs (yet). So why shouldn't we put this code to our lens resume?
The QR code can contain the following information: Name, Email-address, Phone-number, URL. I suggest you to use the first 3, but you can add another QR-code(s) with a link to your blog, facebook profile, about page, online portfolio, etc.
You can check my resume to see how I added a QR code with my contact information.
A question regarding the QR-code
Now you know everything.
Go and create a CV lens! :)
Not sure how to write a perfect resume?
You can find useful books on eBay
Best resume pages on Squidoo
- Killer CV words
- This lense helps you finding words that will raise the impact of your CV.
- How to write a CV
- A complete guide to write a CV.
- How to make a resume
- Quick summary on resume creation.
I'd like to know your opinion!
Or, if you have anything to add, do not hesitate, share it :)
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Vikki_w
May 6, 2012 @ 9:58 am | delete
- very creative!
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adashim
Mar 29, 2012 @ 12:50 am | delete
- Another great idea. You are very creative.
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artbyrodriguez
Mar 28, 2012 @ 2:47 pm | delete
- Very good idea and well done lens.
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smithlights
Mar 5, 2012 @ 10:41 pm | delete
- Wow! Awesome lens! Very well thought out and written! Thanks for sharing your ideas.
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kaposzta
Mar 7, 2012 @ 11:00 am | delete
- Thank you for your kind words ;)
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