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Times changes and when looking for a new job the first thing you want your resume does for you is to get employers attention in order to have the chance to have a personal meeting in which you can show how useful you would be if the company decides to hire you instead another candidate.

Paper cv template is something everybody use and can be bored to read many of them at a time,  social media profiles can be “dangerous” to show to employers if you do not control what your friends are saying about you on that networks so Graeme Anthony, a PR executive and job-hunter in London, chose to upload a Youtube video resume.

After an intro segment, the interactive video professional resume shows a menu in which viewers  can choose different sections: “About me”, “Portfolio”, “Skills” , “Timeline” and “Contact”. By clicking in those links, Anthony himself explains his working experience that shows he is a natural communicator in a funny and impressive way.

Don’t you think this is best job application ever?

Freelances who don’t want or can’t work at home have to rent an office or a place where they can do their job. Renting a place and making it suitable for working is always a big expense that can cut benefits of working as a freelance so that’s why coworking is a great idea to consider about.

Coworking is style of work in which independent professionals share work environment : not only physical space but all that working process mean and this is and important skill for cv. More likely to use this working style are freelance workers .

First coworking spaces  were developed by nomadic Internet entrepreneurs seeking an alternative to working in coffee shops and cafes, or to isolation in independent or home offices but nowadays are a lot of coworking spaces all over the world. A list of many of these locations is available at the Coworking Wiki where you can find a resume for coworking communities too.

But coworking is not only about sharing a space. Coworking means a whole new way in collaborative work in which every member in the network help and is helped by others for example on how to write resume when applying for a new job. And even you don’t need to go every day to an office to join one of this networks.

A man in India used another man’s resume to apply for a job at an architecture office located in Vile Parle. The robber was hired and as soon as he could he rob his employer a mobile phone and a chain made of gold.

When the architect went to the police the cops went after the man whose CV was  shown to apply for the job and was then when the employer realized he had been not only robbed by cheated to.

Tracking the stolen phone the police found out that the real robber was a 32 years old man named  Santosh Raghunath Khadtar. When asked about the fake CV Khadtar told the cops that he took a cv sample of the other’s man resume when they both were applying for the same job and the other man was hired.

After that Khadtar had applied for the job of an office boy using the fake CV and was hired by the  architecture firm.

“On the first day at work, he was sent to his employer’s home, which was near the office, to fetch certain things. At that time, renovation work was going on in the house. The worker used the opportunity to steal a gold chain and a mobile phone,” a police officer said.

When Khadtar did not come to work the next day, the architect filed a police complaint. Initially, the cops went after Dongre, because of the fake professional resume, but tracking the stolen mobile, they traced Khadtar.

The cops are trying to find out if Khadtar had used the same modus operandi to rob others people as well, senior inspector Ramnath Kharade of Vile Parle police station said.

English is still the most important language in the world when talking about business and trade. However more than 1.5 billion Chinese native speakers and China fast economic growth had made that many companies had turn their project to the Asian giant. Speaking Chinese is a skill every employer would appreciate to read in any resume.

If you have ever studied anything related to Chinese culture or language, do no forget to mention it when writing your  job resume. Chinese companies have their own business culture so any knowledge about Chinese idiosyncrasy will turn in a very valuable asset when looking for a better job. International trading departments are the most frequent destination for those employees who can speak and write fluent Chinese in order to help them to import and export trading operations. We have to be aware that most important world manufacturers are located in China and those who can make better deals get a great advantage over their competitors.

There are different non-profit organizations that set language courses to help graduates to find their first job and some of them teach Chinese language for free. If you are thinking about learning a language, search the web to find any of these courses. Learning Chinese is not an easy task to complete but it has a big reward. Employers hire workers who are able to communicate in this language not only for cv, just because by learning so difficult language and culture they know their future employee has been able to do a great effort.

In this economic crisis environment many people have lost their jobs lately and they are currently looking for a new one.

In this situation was a friend of mine who has been unemployed for the last four month. She received a call last week to attend an interview in order to hire her as customer service agent in a call center company. She didn’t remember to have send her resume to this company, anyway she tried to prepare for the meeting looking for information on the Internet. As she couldn’t find anything on this company she decided that she would dress in a formal way for the interview.

So the date came and my friend made sure she wouldn’t be late. She walk to the address she was given and arrived to the place half and hour earlier the appointment so she came into a bar to have a coffee in the meanwhile.

While she was drinking her solo coffee a women approached her and asked for a cigarette, mi friend answered politely that she doesn’t smoke and anyway that place was a non-smokers coffee shop. The woman started to yell at my friend’s face about civil rights and how governments are making laws to forbid everything.

As astonished as she was, my friend tried to calm down the unknown woman explaining her that she was not responsible for what politics do and there is non-smokers rigth to enjoy places where tobacco is forbidden. After a while, the woman calm down and left the place and my friend realized it was time to access the building in which she had been dated.

She asked at the front desk and a young man lead her to a big room where another 10 candidates where waiting. The man ask for CV and my friend gave him the one she had printed at home. Man told her to wait a few minutes in the waiting room.

Finally, she saw a woman coming right ahead to her and realized she was the same woman who had been talking to in the bar. My friend feared to have lost the chance to be hired because of their argue, however the women spoke kindly to her and ask her to come into her office. Once they both had taken a seat, the woman explained to my friend she was in her coffee break when saw my friend and recognized her as a candidate because of her job resume photo and decided to test her at the bar.

Woman told my friend that she had passed the test to be a customer service agent because she was good tempered opposite a person who has out of her grids and hired my friend who is not unemployed anymore.