VisualCV as an Alternative Digital Resume

VisualCV is a social media that utilizes all of the information a paper resume while infusing other online media.

Although paper resumes are the traditional format of presenting professional material, online media have started to change the way employers look at resumes.

This is not to say get rid of your resume. This is simply saying to use an online resume as an alternative, and one of the social media that is available is VisualCV.

As shown above, VisualCV is an online multimedia resume that takes the form of a paper resume online, but allows users to do more than what a paper resume is limited to.

Some features VisualCV offers are a side bar where images, audio, links to other social media, writing samples, video clips and more are placed to show what you are currently working on.

VisualCV also offers convenience. With paper resumes there is a need to update, print and send to employers whereas in VisualCV updating your resume for potential employers online takes a matter of minutes for them to see instantly.

Another feature is that you get your own online url address thus making it easier for recruiters to find you.

If you are worried about the written material being taken out, don't. VisualVC still allows descriptions of recommendations, education, work experience, etc. See examples of resumes on VisualVC here.

Having an online resume is essential to have today. Because VisualVC is convenient, easy and free to use, it is a great alternative to the paper resume.

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Tough Job Market for New Journalists

While the future of journalism is evolving into such a broad branch, there is the actual difficulty of actually getting a job in the field of journalism. Most people are becoming freelance writers in this industry, and so a recent article was published informing those who have become freelance writers, what are some keys that they would be advised to do to successfully get their work published.

Flexibility is the key, when going into this field. You are not able to get the positions that are hoped for and that is why flexibility is important. Recently a 2009 graduate of University of British Columbia decide to actually go abroad to find work in the journalism field. She worked for the company Journalists for Human Rights, a Canadian non-profit company, for about a year. After that year she returned home and received a year contract as a reporter with CanWest News Services, which is a wire service for many Canadian newspapers.

It also means that you might not go to your field you want another student from UBC, began as a TV reporter but now is reporting on the radio. She hope to eventually return to television, but as of right now she feels that it will not be any time soon. The job market for journalist seems to be making it more difficult to get the job in the field you want. It is more of becoming a entrepreneurial business. People have to get themselves out there than depending on companies to do it for them.

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