One CV is never enough

There's been a deal of discussion about Yahoo CEO Marissa Meyer's CV floating around LinkedIn recently.

The CV is a neat, yet dynamic one-page document, similar to an infographic. It has a nice pie chart which breaks down a typical day's work for Meyer.

Got me thinking I've had something similar for quite some time, so it's nothing new. It also reminded me of my other CVs – five in all.

The reason I have five CVs is to be able to provide something which suits the company I'm pitching to.

 

In one of them, I have a folder-style layout, which provides a doughnut-style graph of my work breakdown for each position I've held. I have two formalised CVs, both subtly different (one with a slight splash of colour for headings (achievements).

My favourites are my two, single-page CVs. The one I've shown here hardly gets used because I don't reckon there's many HR people (traditionally conservative) who could relate (my work) to the skills and outcomes. A PR or advertising person probably would.

I'm not a HR person but I believe you need several CVs, individually tailored to different organisations; just the same as you tweak the response to criteria to a position.

Now, if I could get a gig at Yahoo, or maybe Google.

 

 

 

Latest social media wheel has my head spinning

Thanks, Simon te Brinke for alerting me to the latest version of The Essential Digital Marketing Tools Infographic.

As you can see, we have a wide range of tools (many free) to assist us wade through the social mediasphere in a bid to make sense of what it all means.

Interestingly, Google's Blogger was not among the blogging tools.