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Benjom: You're very right in respect of the first point made. Most employers would use between 10 to 30 seconds to screen your 'Resume' or 'CV' (as Nigerians would call it) and if they can't, in that short time, get what they're looking for, your CV is thrown in the thrash or gets deleted ASAP.

For those interested, I'll like to re-write your CV in advance (to see what it looks like to get crucial information from a CV in seconds). However, if you like the new look of your CV, you'll pay me a 'token' for a job well-done. Otherwise, you can ignore it and I'll accept responsibilty (no holding you to ransom).

Interested? Send your current CV to:
exceptionalcv2014@gmail.com
if you like, you may hide your name and contact address (to gain your trust)... Just let me 'wow' you.

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nwaobitex: abeg wat is resume

[size=15pt]RESUME IS CV?[/size]

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Mention: Too long...lemme comment first

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i am dazzeled especially number 5

ladypinkky: Need one too seyeee@yahoo.com thank you

[size=15pt]you have to send me your company profile ...[/size]

badpeople: Yes, I need one for my company, my email drillprintstechnologies@yahoo.com

[size=15pt]do you have a company profile ?[/size]

9. Financial analyst Jordan McDonnell wanted to change careers, but he had trouble getting his foot in the door. So he created a non-resume to show off his creativity. It was viewed about 90,000 times in one week.

This is NOT my resume from Jordan McDonnell



10. Perhaps the most viral resume of all time belongs to Aleksey (Vayner) Stone, who submitted a 7-minute video resume titled "Impossible is Nothing" to UBS when he was a senior at Yale. He also submitted a glamour shot, a 1.5-page resume and an 8-page writing sample. The video showed Stone ballroom dancing and bench pressing nearly 500 pounds. Unfortunately the video went viral in a bad way, and Wall Street made a mockery of Stone. A few weeks ago, Stone passed away at age 29 from a drug/medicine-induced heart attack.

5. This person turned his resume into a chocolate bar and was hired. His chocolate resume was picked up on Reddit and viewed more than 1 million times.


6. A freelance creative in NYC decided to get noticed by 3D printing his head at Makerbot's headquarters and sending it to prospective employers with the tag line: "Tiny head big ideas." It was featured on PFSK.


7. Alice Lee skipped four classes at UPenn to create a website/resume for Instagram, DearInstagram.byAliceLee.com. It didn't get her hired, but she did speak with founder Kevin Systrom on the phone; she ended up landing an internship with Path. Business Insider, The Atlantic and The Next Web wrote about it.




8. An NYU junior named Mark sent an overzealous CV to J.P. Morgan last year. It boasted his ability to do 35 pull-ups and quickly became the laughingstock of Wall Street. It was read by Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Nomura, Citi, Deutsche Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, KPMG, Wells Fargo, Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Perella Weinberg Partners, and Barclays Capital employees who forwarded the letter with responses such as: "Prepare to lol all over yourself."



Eric Platt/Business Insider

A few job seekers who are talented web developers, designers, videographers and writers have created such impressive resumes and cover letters, their job applications have gone viral.

The following applications have gotten people jobs at big tech companies and at Wall Street firms, and their CVs have been viewed a few million times on the web.

1. Journalist Dawn Siff created what's likely the first-ever resume on Vine, the new video startup Twitter recently acquired. Her message is only 6-seconds long, but it was featured on Mashable.


2. A student sent an unapologetically honest cover letter to an investment bank and people on Wall Street called it one of the best CVs they have ever seen. It spread from bank to bank and sites like Business Insider picked it up. "No joke, I think we should consider this guy," one banker wrote. "I wouldn't be surprised if this guy gets at least a call from every bank out there."


3. Another student, Mizzou's Chris Spurlock, designed a resume that looked like an infographic with the help of a fellow photojournalism student. It was featured on HuffPo College and tweeted more than 5,300 times. After the post received tens of thousands of pageviews, The Huffington Post hired Spurlock as its Infographic Design Editor.


4. Philippe Dubost is a web product manager who really wants to work for Amazon. He built a website that looks like a product page complete with a shopping cart and ads. It was tweeted by Yahoo Finance, Y Combinator and nearly 300 others.

lonngmann: Where are the jobs?!

[size=15pt] please read carefully before passing comment[/size]

1. Scan Your Resume For 15 seconds

That’s exactly what an employer will do, if you don’t get a clear message about what you can do for them, then it is not a good resume. Since this is the most important document in your career, make the investment and have a good resume professionally prepared. (But be careful as there are many scams and mediocre providers out there.)

2. Focus On The High-Return Job Efforts

Job boards have less than a 5% effectiveness rate while networking has over a 50% effectiveness rate. Start by selecting 10 to 30 companies where you would love to work. Do a company search on LinkedIn and identify the decision makers and their staff.

Then, see who you know who might know someone who can make an introduction for you. Follow the company and people on LinkedIn and Facebook, join their groups and conversations, and comment on their blogs and become known. This is how you move from a passive wait for the right job to appear on the job boards to an active job seeker targeting the kinds of positions you really want.
3. Optimize Your LinkedIn Profile

If a recruiter was searching through LinkedIn to find people for the position you are seeking, would you show up? Try it and if you are not on the first or second page, go back to your profile and pepper it with the right keywords to get yourself a higher ranking. A simple trick is to look at the profiles of the people who rank well and follow some of the things they did.

4. Review Your Online Presence

88% of employers will Google your name to see more about you. Make sure you look good on LinkedIn (100% complete profile), review your activity in Facebook, Twitter, blogs, and any other online account. Take down or change any comments that reflect poorly upon you. Use your own blog, online exchanges and testimonials to showcase your professional knowledge.

5. Create Measurable Goals

Searching for a job is like any other project and you must stay disciplined, so set firm goals for yourself. For example, “I will make 10 networking calls and have two meetings per week.” Make sure you are focusing on high-impact efforts like networking versus job board submissions. Keep a record of your efforts so if an employer calls, you can quickly determine when and how they were contacted.

5.You may wonder why someone would bother to go to the trouble of creating a website that is just an expanded version of their resume .

Your website as a resume.

While social networking sites that are career-focused can be an outstanding place to host your resume, they do not give you any appreciable advantage over the legions of other professionals that are on that particular network. Why would a website work better? On a social network you are just a part of the pack, and having your own website marks you immediately as a maverick who is deeply committed to your career. Hiring managers make hiring decisions, and hiring managers are impressed by initiative and creativity. So few of their candidates have their own websites that it cannot help but make you stand out from the crowd.

Your website will:

Be among the top results in search engines when hiring managers inevitably Google your name.Give hiring managers more information on your talents and personality than even the best resume could possibly impart.Allow you the creative freedom to really display your skill-set, perhaps even with pictures or video presentations

There are some essential components that you will need to have an outstanding personal website for your resume.

Your resume: it may seem obvious, but your website should match what is included in your paper resume. Your website is a place to highlight, not embellish, your experience. Remember to include accurate and up-to-date contact information.

Portfolio: This is mandatory for creative professionals, but workers from many different career fields may benefit from displaying tangible results of their work, whether it is a picture of a house you worked construction on or a particularly delicious-looking meal that you created for a catering company.

A purpose: One of the greatest advantages of your website is that it gives you a forum to make a big statement of purpose. What are your career goals and what value do you bring? These are two of the biggest questions on the mind of every hiring manager and you can answer them before they even pick up the phone to ask you for an interview.

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i have 8pcs at my cafe ,printer, ups e.t.c ,we open from 9am to 9pm so i will able to generate funds to pay back.location ebute metta .i will not e able to bring my cafe to your location .i am also looking at JV with other business idea i have at current location .

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foreignstudy: To study in english is not cheap at any University in Europa (not Uk). Why your broter didnot want to learn the language from a country and study perhaps in german or in an other language.

why don't you rather post cheap English universities here instead of discouraging people.not nice..

ikedek: One week repayment we deal

it is calculated at N1,500 per day for 2 weeks for 20,000.1 week is too short for me .i was allowed to repay the loan of 50,000 from the micro-finance in 3 months.

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i need a light loan 15k to repay N20,000 in 2 weeks ,the last micro finance bank i used have come out with series of requirement, long procedure ,i just finished repaying a loan of N50,000 naira from mutual micro finance bank oyingbo branch ,if you need evidence i can show you ,i just need a light loan for now but they are coming up with series of requirement ,i run a cyber in ebute metta, oyingbo.

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