Job hunting just got a bit easier with VisualCV
If you are looking for a new job, and want to impress the prospective employers, a new tool is here that could be just the thing to help you. CV stands for curriculum vitae, and is basically another word, or words, for resume – now, I hope you don’t need me to explain what that is. Anyway, resumes, or CV’s, have always tended to be rather dull old things, one or two typed sheets of A4, which of course you can send as an attachment by email, or mail the hard copy, to those top companies.
But now it’s time to think again. VisualCV takes the traditional resume, and makes it come alive with video, pictures, a portfolio of your best work samples, and any other supporting documents that you care to include. Informational pop-ups provide background data on the companies you’ve worked at, and the universities and colleges you have attended. Add to this the fact that you can securely share different versions of your resume with your own network of employers, colleagues and friends, and control who sees what.
VisualCV certainly takes the whole concept of the CV up a level, and the result is a lively, vibrant and informative online document, that is pretty well guaranteed to impress.
One quibble might be that you might just as well do your own website, but VisualCV offers you the chance to put your resume online in a somewhat easier manner, and in a standardised format that makes a professional looking online resume easy to produce.
VisualCV is still at the beta stage, so if you are job hunting, it could be worth giving it a go. The proof of the pudding will be the job offers.