Create a Resume with Facebook Timeline

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Have no idea on how to style your resume?

Why don’t exploit the new Facebook Timeline feature to create an original and professional resume?

Here’s a sneak peek of the final result:  http://facebook.com/cv.paolo.bruno

Intrigued? 😉 Keep on reading..

I started by creating a new Facebook profile with the username cv.paolo.bruno.

Then, I filled in my profile with some informations:

• Education and school attended.
• Jobs I had and companies I worked for (if your company doesn’t exist in the database, just create it)

• Profile picture.

• Change or choose a new background image:
  • Currently, you can’t hide the album with main images (Avatar, Background …)
  • I set as background image a little Infographic with an arrow, that suggest to use the mouse scroll  to display the Resume Timeline (just in case the visitor doesn’t know how Facebook Timeline works)

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• Just below the header, on the left side of the page there will be the name of your last company and your address; on the right side, the list of your friends, album, etc will be shown.
  • On the right side of the bar, hide the unnecessary section. Remember: you can’t hide the album containing the main images!
  • At left-bottom a link labeled “Information” is shown; if people is interested in your cv, it can access trough this link to the detailed information you added.

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• At the beginning of the Timeline  add on the left a brief post with Social Network Links (Facebook personal profile, Linkedin, GPlus, Blog …) and on the right important updates and last post from my blog.
  • Remember:  everything appears in chronological order, from left to right: thus, if you update the last blog post, you will have to add your Social Network Links again.

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• Add a photo album containing your Certifications, Awards, Certificate of Graduation, etc. and expand the corresponding event

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• Then, back to theTimeline again:
  • Your job activities and collaboration will appear in chronological order.
  • Add an image for each company and fill in the details about each activity.
  • I would have liked to set the “Job Start” in “Expanded Mode” and thethe “End of Job/Collaboration”   in “Reduced Mode” but…
• • Apparently, there is a bug with the Timeline. In fact, the configuration is not correctly saved if some posts is configured in “Reduced Mode”.
  • Currently, all events/post look like:

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• • I would definitely prefer to configure events such as “The End of Job/Collaboration” in “Reduced Mode”,  but I’ve to wait for the bug to be fixed?

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• Privacy settings:
• • Configure your profile as “Public”, so everyone can see it.
  • Increase the privacy level for tags settings and for  “Who can post on your Wall”.
  • Set the option that only “friend of friends” can send you friend request.
  • Don’t add any friends.
  • By using this configuration, you will be sure that nobody can write to your professional profile, nor spoil your Timeline with tag, Post, Request, News …
• I leave you with a wonderful infographic from my Professiona Facebook Profile. If you liked this post.. don’t forget to share! 😉

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