VisualCV replaces the resume with an online professional profile and starting today, VisualCV.com includes enhanced features for professionals. Members can share VisualCVs directly with other members and participating employers, in addition to sharing with individuals and employers via email. “For many years professionals have networked online and offline using the resume as a means of communicating their credentials,” said Clint Heiden, CEO of VisualCV, Inc. “With our online professional profile and new professional networking features, they can bring this activity fully online via VisualCV.com.”
Professionals Can Network Using Their VisualCV to Advance Their Career
In addition to building an online professional profile and sharing that profile, individuals can now network using their VisualCV (or multiple VisualCVs). With the new features announced today, professionals can:
- Meet and network with other VisualCV members by sharing VisualCVs
- Privately manage and organize their VisualCV network in customized folders, such as coworkers, alumni, customers, etc.
- Securely and privately share VisualCVs with potential employers
- Track and manage views of their VisualCVs
- Manage all share requests, both received and sent
Based on early member feedback and requests, VisualCV has enhanced features and functionality to improve its members’ experiences. Overall usability enhancements include the ability to support external video (YouTube, Yahoo! Video and Veoh), the availability of a wider portfolio column for larger images and customization of a VisualCV, improvements to editing capabilities and more. To see a complete list of improvements made, please visit the announcements forum.
VisualCV Community Contest Highlights Member VisualCVs
After only a month of its public beta, the VisualCV Community has generated powerful VisualCVs. To highlight the outstanding VisualCVs created by the members of VisualCV.com, the company today announced the VisualCV Community Contest. The contest runs from March 20, 2008 to June 11, 2008 and will award winners in the following categories: (1) Best Job Seeking VisualCV, (2) Best Story Related to Using a VisualCV in the Job Hunt (3) Best Bio VisualCV, (4) Best Use of Portfolio in a VisualCV, (5) Most Creative VisualCV, (6) Best Undergraduate VisualCV and (7) Best VisualCV Overall. The winners will be highlighted in the VisualCV Community and a press release as well as awarded a prize. To learn more and enter the contest, visit www.VisualCV.com/showcase.
Employers Use the VisualCV System to Find Talent
VisualCV, Inc. recently announced that over 150 hundred employers have registered to directly receive VisualCVs and find, attract and evaluate talent at VisualCV.com. The number of employers registering continues to climb and there are now over 150 employers using VisualCV.
To join the growing list of employers participating at VisualCV.com, please visit http://www.visualcv.com/registrations/new. Employer access to VisualCV.com is free, and will remain so at the current level of service. Certain premium value-added services for employers will be added later this year.
On February 11, 2008, VisualCV announced its revolutionary approach to creating an Internet-based resume, building and managing an online career portfolio, and securely sharing professional qualifications with employers, customers, partners and colleagues. VisualCV.com is the first website to allow professionals to do this all in one place, with unmatched privacy and control, and for free. VisualCV also provides a comprehensive guide on how to write a resume for a broad range of professionals. Visitors can also find a number of stellar examples that can be used as templates for getting noticed and to stand out in this competitive job market.
That was the response of Shimmering Resumes to Black Wednesday, the day Paris Hilton learned that her grandfather is giving 97% of his fortune to charity. To ease her distress, Shimmering Resumes has offered to write her a resume absolutely free, for any job she chooses to seek.
“Leaping to the rescue of the world’s best-known heiress is not everyone’s gut response,” said Paul Freiberger, president of Shimmering Resumes, a professional resume-writing service. “I’ve heard a lot of less-than-generous comments.”
“This young lady just had over $2 billion snatched from her future. Show a little compassion,” Freiberger added. “It may not be so easy for her to create another perfume line or promote a movie, CD, or line of handbags. Can’t we all relate?”
Freiberger said he is not seeking Hilton’s endorsement for a line of resumes or CVs. Should she offer one, Freiberger has not decided what he would do.
“But if I can help Paris Hilton with career planning and get her a real job, that will be good for society. And for her,” Freiberger said.
If Hilton accepts this offer, Freiberger will treat her like any client, except for background.
“I usually recommend preparing one or two resumes for each client, so they can be ready to apply for jobs with different requirements. I’ll tell Paris she needs a couple of dozen,” Freiberger said, adding that he would point her to the sample resume on his web site. “I’ll tell her quite directly: ‘This is the most important document of your life.’”
“One resume would be a synthesis and cover her whole eventful life. I’ll call it Distinguished Debutante and Heiress. But she also needs a resume for her music. One for her acting. One for her handbag designing. I relish the challenge to help this many-sided girl,” said Freiberger.
What if Paris isn’t quick to look for work?
“If Hilton can’t bring herself to scan the jobs on Craigslist or Indeed.com, I’m sure the rest of us will understand,” said Freiberger. “Getting laid off this time of year is tough.” Freiberger said his firm offers executive coaching and morale boosting to help the recently unemployed cope with the shock.
What about volunteer work for Paris?
“She could bundle her vegetarianism and anti-fur activism in a resume offering assistance to any of the presidential candidates,” he added. “It would certainly spice up the race.”