THE INFOGRAPHIC RESUME

How to Create a Visual Portfolio That Showcases Your Skills and Lands the Job

A career expert shows you how to land a job in today’s highly competitive hiring climate

What if you could instantaneously distinguish yourself from other candidates? Get hiring managers to immediately take note of your credentials and skills? And ingeniously present yourself as the cream of the crop to hiring managers?

There’s a way to do it – and it’s all the hiring rage. Cleverly constructed visual resumes have the power to hire – and great examples go viral, from Chris Spurlock’s infographic resume that got him hired as the Huffington Post’s Infographic Design Editor, or Philippe Dubost’s faux Amazon-page resume. The website Mashable routinely shares creative digital resumes which receive thousands of shares and retweets.

The popularity of visual or infographic resumes are blossoming out well beyond the tech and design fields. Job seekers from every industry are discovering that they offer a unique, visually driven way to communicate experience, interests, and personality in a customized format that grabs attention and sets you apart in a crowded job search. Visual portfolios, sites that auto-generate visual resumes and resume builders, Pinterest boards, customized visual libraries, forums and detailed guides all point to the infographic resume moving from trend to mainstream.

Career Sherpa’s Hannah Morgan offers how-to’s and examples in THE INFOGRAPHIC RESUME: How to Create a Visual Portfolio That Showcases Your Skills and Lands the Job (McGraw-Hill; August, 2014; PB, $28.00). Morgan, a resume and career expert, will help you cleverly and efficiently design your own infographic resume using new tools, creative ideas, and leading techniques.

The book’s promise is that your work will get noticed by hiring managers, increasingly searching and researching the best candidates online – and above those candidates who don’t have one.

Job seekers, recent graduates, students, business professionals, managers, HR professionals, will all benefit from a deeper understanding of how the job search landscape is changing, how the infographic fits into the scheme, and how you can use this increasingly popular format for great results.

About the Author:

Hannah Morgan is the owner of Career Sherpa.net. Her business focuses on dispensing actionable advice on topics such as personal reputation management, networking, personal branding, and social media. Nationally and locally recognized for her expertise, she has been listed in Monster.com’s The Monster 11 for 2011: Career Experts Who Can Help Your Job Search, YouTern’s Top 50 Blogs for Young Careerists, and The Daily Muse’s 15 Career Experts Not to Miss on Twitter. Hannah writes for Career Sherpa.net as well as U.S. News & World Report, sharing modern methods for standing out in the competitive labor market.

Hannah’s online resumes:

http://www.slideshare.net/careersherpa

http://about.me/hannahmorgan

http://vizualize.me/careersherpa

THE INFOGRAPHIC RESUME: How to Create a Visual Portfolio that Showcases Your Skills and Lands the Job,

by Hannah Morgan. August, 2014; Paperback, $28.00. 0071825576 / 9780071825573.

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