5/26/09 - Managing Imperfect Resumes - with this great reader comment "Jack Hill wrote:You’re fighting the wrong battle. If you are relying on key words or other tricks to get noticed, you’ve already lost. You should be getting in the door with personal contacts and recommendations — via LinkedIn or off-line means. Then it’s “Oh, by the way, we need a resume for the file.” The deal should be closed before they even take a look. That’s how CEOs and other big fish operate. Relying on HR people, or their systems to pick you out of an ocean of resumes is like playing the lottery.".

(COPY/PASTE and personalize this post in your personal/community blog)

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Richard Bolles updates his "What Color Is Your Parachute" (WCIYP) each year. All page references are from his 2008 annual.

His "The Flower" (p. 246-7) is a one page snapshot of who are at this instant and is a subset of what we think should be the most important post in your personal blog - your "My LifeWork Portal". Mine is the "46 links" in the right sidebar. Below will be my version of "The Flower" (without the artwork) and uses appropriate links from "My LifeWork Portal".

The Flower has six (6) sections surrounding a seventh (7th) section. (My

1. My Favorite Interests  
2. Geography
3. My Favorite People Environments
4. My Favorite Values and Goals
5. My Favorite Working Conditions
6. Salary and Level of Responsibility
7. My Favorite Transferable Skills

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Click your browser's BACK/Return arrow to return to the post that brought you here, or return to

• My Job Search Strategies <-- My Job Search Plan <-- My LifeWork Plans <-- My LifeWork Portal

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Keep this link to this template to periodically click on it to see if it has changed.

If you have an improvement for this template, please add a comment.

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It is very easy to create your "My LifeWork Portal " (LWP) post in your personal blog.

1. In the right sidebar are two "templates" listed under "2. Examples of LWPs". (If you don't see them, click on either the title of this post, or "Comments" to go to the "LifeWork Portal" community.)
   
2. Review each and decide which one you want to COPY.
3. Follow these instructions for using the WYSIWYG editor to highlight/select the body of the post you want to COPY and PASTEing it into a new post in your blog.
4. Edit your new LWP to make it your own. Remember, that all hyperlinks need to be changed.
5. Add links to posts you have already created in your blog.

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Go to the next milepost of What is a "Brief Description" (BD) and why is it important?, or return to this milepost in the Roadmap.

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Your "My LifeWork Portal " (LWP) post is/will be your largest aggregating post (AP). It is a collection of links to all of your key posts in your blog.

Your LWP is important because ....

1. It organizes your blog by listing links to every major post in your blog.
2. It contains every major attribute about you in ONE PLACE as well as links to the posts that contain more details and information.
3. It is a snapshot of who you are right now, who you were and who you will or want to be or do.

In the next post you will see how easy it is to create your LWP.

(Private note to me.)

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Go to the next milepost of Creating and developing your "My LifeWork Portal" post., or return to this milepost in the Roadmap.

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Read this post from Helen Barrett about the integration of eJournals and ePortfolios into what is now called Electronic Documentation of Learning  (eDOL).

LWPS is a platform where you can document (eJournal) your personal learning (ePortfolio) as you do your lifework planning.

My LifeWork Portal is my eDOL. 

How do you document your learning?

According to Deepak Chopra, " ... journaling ... (is) one of the most important tools we have to transform our lives." (Source) [More (private for now)]

When I have had rough times, I've dumped my feelings and thoughts into my journal and that has relaxed me and allowed me to gain perspective.

Writing things down - either in my paper journal, or in my personal LWPS blog - brings clarity to the issue at hand and sometimes leads to revealing what I need to do next.

Much of what I post in my blog has been copied from my journal notebook.

Journaling worksThe method you use to keep a journal is up to you. Pick the one that is most comfortable. The important thing is to have somewhere to write down your thoughts, feelings and other items when they occur. Only you will have access to it, however, you will be referring to it when you write your learning summary at the end of the class.

I like a small hardcopy journal because I can keep it with me. I can also use colored pencils or pen and can draw or diagram when appropriate.

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Journaling + Intention = Empowerment!

Most people who journal simply write down their thoughts. And this is helpful—to a degree.

But so much more is possible when we bring intention to the vast powers of our conscious and subconscious minds.

So much more is possible when we purposefully invite the wise voice of intuition to speak through our writing.

Why journal? To open the door to your own creative genius!

http://www.higherawareness.com/journal-writing/index.html 

The value of journaling.

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Your LifeWork Portal post (and the links to the other key lifework planning posts you include therein) should be the MOST important post in your personal blog. (I'll explain why shortly.)

Click on the links in the "Profile Owner" box to the right to see some examples. Links to templates are included in those examples

It is important that you review your LifeWork Portal post often, and keep it and all of the links to your posts within it up-to-date.

Remember, goto "Your Profile" (upper left) and edit the "Brief Description" section of your personal profile and insert a link there to your LifeWork Portal so you have easy access to it and the linked posts within to review, reflect and revise all as needed.

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• Check out the links in the "Profile Owner's" box to the right.
• Review, reflect and revise your "My LifeWork Portal" and all the posts linked within as often as possible so they represent who you are right now!
• Return to the
  • Transitions community
  • LifeWork planning process community
  • The four (4) most important aggregating posts in your personal LWPS blog.
• Add your comments or questions in the "Comments" section below.

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( .... This article - Determining Your True Life Values -  gives an excellent overview. I'll excerpt shortly.)

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Go to My Values (Life; Work; Personal) or My LWP.

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As we described in the "What is LifeWork Planning" section of the "About LWPS" post, a very important part of lifework/career planning is your collection of salient information about yourself that you will use to make informed decisions about your future. Some people collect this information on paper like journals or diaries or notebooks, or in portfolios. Others collect it on their stand alone computer. Others do both. Sadly, most do nothing. A few, but growing number, collect this information in personal blogs like LWPS where they can have access - via hyperlinks - to an ever expanding set of tools and a selective network of family, friends, peers and (para) professionals to assist them in this process. There are many different kinds of blogs, but as we will demonstrate in the following table, none have all of LWPS's features, functions and focus combined into one platform.

 

Wikipedia describes a portfolio as a "... a personal collection of information describing and documenting a person’s achievements and learning. ... ranging from learning logs to extended collections of achievement evidence. ... used for many different purposes such as accreditation of prior experience, job search, continuing professional development, certification of competences."

This LifeWork Planning Services (LWPS) blogging platform is a hybrid electronic or ePortfolio digital archive and presentation platform. We encourage you to use your LWPS personal/professional weblog to store your digital artifacts and develop your ePortfolio by writing about who you are and what is important to you.

		Computer					Paper
		ePortfolio					Portfolio
		(We)blog		Non-blog
	Reasons why LWPS is best.	LWPS	Others	CIDS	email	.doc; .xls	journal; diary
Create	Posts can be easily created.	Y	Y	?3	Y	Y	Y
	Posts can be easily and quickly edited/revised.	Y	?4		n5	Y	y6
Communicate	Posts can be private, or easily and quickly shared with a few others, or everyone via "Access Restrictions".	Y	?7		Y	y8	In person
	Each post has its own unique URL link..	Y	Y		N	n9	N
	Comments to posts can be deleted.	Y	?		N	N	N
Collect	Images can be easily and quickly inserted into posts.	Y	Y		Y	Y	Y
	Audio (podcasts) and video (YouTube, Google) can be easily amd quickly inserted into posts.	Y	Y		ne10	ne	N
Collaborate	Unlimited numbers of tags (keywords) can be quickly and easily added to posts to locate other posts (via search or hyperlinked tags) or locate others who share the same tags/interests.	Y	S		N	N	N
	Links to other applications, resources, and services can be easily and quickly inserted.	Y	Y		Y	Y	N

1. CIDS = Career Information Delivery Systems
   
2. Christopher Sessums post also includes the "Weblogs" graphic below..
   
3. ?3 - I need to do research here.
   
4. ?4 - Not every blogging platform permits you to edit a post after you created it.
   
5. n5 - The instant you Send your email, you can not change it.
   
6. y6 - Yes, if you have a big eraser. It's messy.
   
7. ?7
   
8. y8 - Yes, if you attach it to an email or give it to them personally.
   
9. n9 - Only if manually uploaded to a server.
10. ne = not easily

 

 

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Diagram of four Cs Source posts: http://eduspaces.net/dianey/weblog/134820.html and http://eduspaces.net/dianey/weblog/134808.html (good definitions)

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9/24 - Eggshell with DC contours - http://art.commongate.com/post/Eggshell_Carving_Art#images