You Gotta Have a Killer CV!

I’ve spent the greater deal of my day going through an entire pile of resumes. See, we need a few new additions to the on-air team, and to be honest- I wasn’t impressed with the lot in front of me.

Then again, maybe I shouldn’t pass judgment on the basis of these CV’s alone. I’ll most likely invite a few over for a quick chat, and hope they’re a whole lot better in person than they are on paper.

I mean, it could have been worse- I remember a time when I was going through an even larger pile back when I was still handling operations for a BPO company several years back. You can just imagine how many careers have possibly been shot down because of a shoddily-written resume. A recruitment person can have dozens- maybe even hundreds of CVs to go through in any given hiring effort. The last thing any applicant would want is for his resume be dismissed just as that- one of the many hundreds.

The goal, really, is to come up with a kick-ass resume. At the very least, you’d like to be given the chance to have some face time, so you could sell yourself even more.

It’s not really very hard, since these days you have a lot of online guides and tools to help build a better-than-average curriculum vitae. One such resume writer is ResumeServicePlus.com, which is worth checking out if you’re really serious about landing a job, and even more so if it’s a highly competitive industry.

Remember, a CV that stands out can get you your foot in the door.  It’s all about selling yourself and showing your prospective employers why they should hire you over all the other applicants, and what you bring to the table.

With that, I dive back into the pile of CVs in front of me, hoping to find a couple of good ones to interview tomorrow.

Cheers, everyone!

260 Pounds?!

Well, it really shouldn’t come as a surprise.  I weighed myself at the gym today- and the counter-weights settled uncomfortably at a troubling two-hundred sixty.

I’ve only hit that kind of weight once- no, hang on… nope, this is probably the heaviest I’ve factored in.  No point blaming anything other than my sedentary lifestyle, my carb-heavy food cravings and a metabolism slower than a 3-toed sloth.

But just like any real trooper, I power through the workout session- my first foray into strenuous aerobic activity since August, I think.  I was relatively lighter then- about 25 pounds less.  Now my legs feel like jelly, and my belly feels like someone’s used it for a punching bag.

That’s good ol’ muscular fatigue for you.  And we renew the effort to fight of the extra weight one pound at a time.

Wish me luck :)  Cheers!

Why Shouldn’t Your Blog Be Your Home Page?

Google has always been my default home page for as long as I can remember.  Lately though, I’ve noticed that when I fire up my Firefox browser, I check out three things right away: mail (on my gmail account), Facebook (alright, so I’m probably marginally addicted…), and Multiply (…marginally addicted to social networking!).

From there, I’d go to check on my usual websites- check out some entertainment news, or the latest music chart movements, or the latest news in gaming- or do some online business like pay some bills or something.

The rest of my day will be spent blogging, and linking references into my blog, or checking out any other variety of social networking and social bookmarking sites from YouTube to Technorati.  I’ve gone to the point of actually spending more than 8 hours a day online- including the time I spend in front of the PC after work- which is to say I’m either playing World of Warcraft or doing even more blogging.

I suppose this is all really about putting some much-needed order into my life.  There’s just so much going on already, and there’s probably much more going on later on, so I suppose I’ll have to make way for new stuff coming through.

So the first order of business is to set this blog “The Life and Times of The Renzie Man” as my home page.  Let’s see how that works out.  Gonna work on getting this blog just a little bit more functional: at least as far as we can fine-tune it- the free version of WordPress doesn’t seem to support some of the things I’d like to have just now.

Gonna put more link lists, and RSS feeds and widgets on the side.  Just to make this an easier springboard to get into other sites. It also means more updates from time to time, probably on a more daily basis.

Let’s get to it, shall we?