A Professional Portfolio
is a representation of your personal and professional accomplishments. In the
past you might have interviewed with your resume, recommendations, and
references in a folder. Recruiters are routinely searching the web for all of
the information available associated with your name. It is imperative
that you manage this information carefully, and present it in the best image
possible.
Pzhone
provides a personal web address (URL) that you can give to recruiters, personal
contacts or people you meet throughout the course of the day to market
yourself.
Make
sure you have a professional online professional portfolio that ties all areas
of your strengths, accomplishments, and qualifications on one page.
Training and Education:
Looking for a job has changed
dramatically over the years. With the increased use of the internet, job boards
were born and you can now submit your resume online. However, how is this
different that mailing your resume to a potential employer or recruiter? The recruiters
know how to use the internet to greatly enhance their search for a potential
candidate. Let Pzhone show
you to use an online Professional Portfolio to Market and Brand yourself during
your Job search. We will teach you how the recruiters are using the internet
and how you should be using it to your advantage.
Text Resume:
Your
resume is extremely important and the first thing recruiters will look at to
get to know you, your skills and the value you can bring to the position. A
well written resume is a must. Pzhone provides can help two ways, First we have
six automated resumes that you can focus on your target market or (2) use our partner’s
services to develop a professionally written resume that is almost guaranteed
results.No matter what you prefer, we can include it
in your Professional Portfolio.
Video Resume:
How many
times have you thought, if I could only talk to the recruiter, I could get an
interview. With a video resume, you can do just that. More and more, this
method of personal marketing is becoming the preferred method for successful
job seekers. A short message to showcase your skills goes a long way to speak
directly to recruiters.
Personal Blog:
The blogosphere
is becoming a recruiting tool. As networks are built though the blogosphere,
your blog is a self marketing tool. The more people that you are exposed to the
better in your job search.
Think!
A
personal blog can be used to communicate about topics that are personal and
important to you.It can also be used to
portray your experience, personality, and knowledge to your prospective
employers.
Accomplishments:
Your
Professional Portfolio has an area dedicated to showcasing your most important
accomplishments, supplementing the information on your resume with targeted
specific accomplishments that will show potential employers your value.
Strengths:
Highlight
your strengths and competencies right up front, highlighted to draw the employer’s
attention.Identify how you can add
value to their company, customize your strengths to target a specific position
or company, and then change as you needed.
Personal References:
Why make
an employer wait to ask you for references, if you are proud of your work you
will provide them up front to allow the potential employer to validate their
impression that you are the right person for the job. Your references are
extremely important to your overall job search and most likely include some
very influential people. Why keep them a secret? Publish your references for
recruiters to see.
Personal Recommendations:
Recommendations
are your gold to finding a new position.Let your friends, colleagues, former employers, manager and vendors talk
on your behalf.Let a potential employer
experience how others feel about your value and performance.
Social Networks
The
social network consists of all sites available on the World Wide Web.
These sites include Facebook, Myspace, and LinkedIn, among others.
Recruiters and customers search the internet to find out as much information
about you as possible. Since these sites are public, they can, and will
be used to form an uneducated and unofficial opinion regarding your overall
professionalism.
Professional Email:
Do you think that @yahoo.com,
@gmail.com or @hotmail.com looks professional?Are you using your nickname or short abbreviation of your name because
what you want is not available?Let
employers see the real you, Sometimes your personal email address may not
portray professionalism. To make sure you have an email address that is not a
nickname or some other non-professional name, Pzhone will provide you a
separate email address to be used in your job search.
