How to update your CV if you are leaving Beijing
2008-06-01
You might be in the situation where you will soon be returning "home" and need to update your CV.

Scared of how to integrate your Beijing experience in a formal CV?

Focus on your accomplishments in Beijing.
Take into account paid and unpaid activities
Consider work at home and work for your community.

In a previous posting, I explained the concept of Career Portfolios: www.inspiredbeijing.com/blog.php?id=84

Today, I want to share with you some useful resources available from Jo Parfitt - Portable Career Guru. She establishes on her website a list of memory joggers that will help you broaden your evaluation.

- Did you identify or assist in identifying any problems or challenges?
- Did you resolve or minimize any problems?
- Did you discover and take advantage of any opportunities?
- Did you target a need for a product, service, plan, program, system, method, procedure, technique, etc.?
- Did you reduce costs, waste, time, or effort?
- Did you create any original works: reports, brochures, newsletters, guides, manuals, proposals, contracts, etc.?
- Did you develop or design a new program, plan, service, product, process, project, system, method, strategy, etc.?
- Did you develop new markets, territories, clients, accounts, etc.?
- Did you improve (redesign, streamline, or reorganize) any projects, plans, programs, processes, services, products, etc.?
- Did you administer or implement any programs, plans, procedures, etc.?
- Did you increase or participate in increasing sales, profits, market share, volume, distribution, production, revenues, cash flow, etc.?
- Did you formulate or participate in formulating any management decisions, policies, goals, organization changes, acquisitions, terminations, recruitments?
- Did you make any recommendations that saved money, made money, increased efficiency or productivity?
- Did you improve employee relations or boost morale?
- Did you open or establish a new office, department, branch, facility?
- Did you improve quality or standards for hiring, products, services?
- Did you make a technical contribution?
- Did you facilitate or improve communication among employees, with clients, or with the community?
- Did you improve service or customer satisfaction?
- Did you impart worthwhile knowledge?
- Did you develop personnel or build a team?
- Did you improve safety or security standards?