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Why is this our mission?

50 Million people will compete for new jobs this year and they all need a better resume.

In spite of decades of technology innovations the resume has remained unchanged for nearly 60 years. How we exchange, read and distribute resumes has changed radically, yet the document format of the resume (or CV) remains stuck in the era of typewriters and stamped envelopes.

As recruiting, technology and Web executives and professionals, we realized the traditional resume is inadequate, and that the entire process of recruiting is inefficient and frustrating for professionals and companies alike. 

With the benefits of Web 2.0 technologies, the time has come to give professionals the tools they need to stand out and present their qualifications in a visually compelling way.

VisualCV: More than just a resume.

Before VisualCV.com there was nowhere online for professionals to create an Internet-based resume, build and manage an online career portfolio and securely share professional qualifications with employers, customers, partners and colleagues. With VisualCV.com, you can do all of this in the same place. 

VisualCV: The best way to stand out and present your professional qualifications to prospective employers, customers, partners and colleagues. 

The multimedia capabilities of a VisualCV let professionals build a live document that accurately reflects their experience and achievements.

With a VisualCV, the resume comes alive in three easy steps: create, enrich and share.

• Create: First, create a VisualCV by cutting and pasting from your existing resume in Word, PDF or plain text format. Right away, your resume becomes a live Internet document. Hovering over a company name pops up information about that company’s business, thanks to informational keyword pop-ups with data supplied through our partnerships with Standard & Poor’s CapitalIQ and Dow Jones’ VentureSource. Similarly, hovering over the colleges you attended pops up rankings from Princeton Review; and soon industry-specific technical terms in your resume will expand into definitions sourced from a variety of sources. This readily accessible information saves the reviewer from time-consuming background research. Don’t have a current resume? No problem—our resume-builder quickly guides you through the process.
• Enrich: Next, you can easily enrich your VisualCV, making it a proxy for that first interview. Add one or more video clips that answer standard questions, or perhaps address that awkward gap in your resume. Attach writing samples or your scanned diploma. Create a graph showing quota attainment, or displaying how many years experience you have in Java, C+ and Ruby development. Prospective employers get a full picture of you, your unique qualifications and how you present yourself.
• Share: Finally, you decide who gets to see your VisualCV. Share it with your professional social network, or our database of employers who each have their own company-specific VisualCV. Share it with a company, and they will be automatically notified that your differentiated VisualCV is waiting for their review. Unlike an emailed resume, you have complete control over who can access your VisualCV. You can even create different versions for different audiences, showing more personal information only to those you trust.

VisualCV: Streamlining the interview process.

The VisualCV’s rich multi-dimensional information reduces steps in the job search and even serves as a proxy for the first interview.

Remember the last time you applied for a job with an exceptionally cool company that you really wanted to work for?  To be seriously considered, you had to solve two problems.

First, you had to make your resume stand out in a sea of hundreds of other resumes. Second, you had to shine in the first interview, where in addition to being subjected to some standard questioning you were asked to bring your resume, work samples, references, together with evidence of salary history, awards, and other items. VisualCV holds all of that and more so you can present yourself and your qualifications before you set foot in an interview.

VisualCV: Overcoming the inadequacies of Internet recruiting and unprofessional social networking.

Posting a standard resume on a job board puts professionals in a box where they can quickly become just one in millions. Resumes sit indefinitely in a database and often generate unwanted leads. 

It is widely accepted that social networking sites are great for fun, but they are not what professionals use to distinguish themselves and advance their careers, and often they lack privacy controls. And, most online professional networks allow you to network, but they do not allow professionals to completely represent their qualifications in a visually compelling way.

VisualCV.com gives professionals control over their online professional image with its compelling Internet-based resume format that allows professionals to differentiate themselves and control distribution of their information. And with VisualCV, it’s easy to create multiple versions of your VisualCV for different audiences—colleagues, customers, partners, friends, you name it. And your VisualCV will never be cluttered with advertising!

Get started today by building your own VisualCV.