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Posts from the ‘Professional’ Category

2
Dec

Updates and work in progress

The reverse position has been live for a couple of weeks, but I am not seeing any effect so far. I have also initiated a series of LinkedIn posts to potentially increase views and impressions, and had some positive results here – but still no direct messages or noteworthy comments. Strategically I still feel this is worth more than sending out multiple applications that get lost in the void of digital filtering, but I am tactically adding another ad this week as well as continuing my topic oriented posts. The idea is that this will slowly help my general visibility and through this be able to reach the right people. I have yet to see a job remotely including this type of work or even tasks touching upon it, so either I have ‘invented’ a position that will never exist or it is yet to be discovered and identified as a valuable concept. It feels very much like walking into the unknown and trying to explore where there is no visible landscape to interact with.

For my extended CV I have added an area for narratives, fiction and media listing books, comics, movies, TV-series and computer games that has helped me discover concepts and ideas that I consider part of my professional foundation. As this extended CV will only be shipped when requested I do not think this part of the CV will be more than a data set that will help an AI pick up on cues and ideas to use when prompted to extract an shorter CV to use for a specific role or project. That said I also feel that it is absolutely something that adds value to this extended CV even if it blurs the borders between what might be considered professional versus personal. The way forward now will be to search for other topics or concepts that would or could add value, depth or increase the overall quality of the document. To be continued…

27
Oct

Turning the tables

So the network has been contacted, LinkedIn updated, job postings tracked and applied to relevant positions. But compared to last time I went exploring the job market the landscape has changed – and not “just like a little bit”. Where I was called into interviews more or less immediately after contacting relevant employers and hired within a month. Now I am having a one year anniversary with my project of finding my next perfect position. That said it has also been a journey where I have covered what it is I want to work with, figuring out what to call myself, what job postings seem to be asking for someone like this. And then we have challenges with CV and online profiling, how to contacting make use of my network and how to apply for a position. Working through all of these topics and issues have just made it perfectly clear that the scene has change and become radically more chaotic and confusing. Trying to navigate all of it has not helped and rather had the opposite effect. So to summarize quickly; I have tried to plan, prepare and reach out. It is obviosuly not working. Hence the title!

So I have some idea as to what I want to work with. And that means I have some ideas as to what such a job posting might look like. But so far I have never seen anything remotely close to this. Which means I should have some idea as to what it might look like. So I took some time to put one together, and right now I am having my friends, mentor and network look through and commenting on it. Because rather than applying for a position I plan to post the job description where I am the perfect candidate and at the same time promoting such a position in my own network. And maybe this will find its way to the right employer out there…

27
Oct

Extended Curriculum Vitae

The world of recruiting and applying to jobs is changing rapidly these days and like everyone else it quickly becomes as situation of “adapt or die”. As part of my experimentation during 2024 and 2025 I developed what I refer to as my extended CV that expands on both my work history as well as my personal life to create a thirty three page long document. This document became my data set for experimenting with AI as well as my main resource for “cherry picking” content for what to include in actual job and project applications as well as generating any type of content related to such activities. In its complete version it quickly becomes a massive inaccessible dataset that has very limited use, but when used and filtered by me to target and adapt positions or projects it quickly became the perfect reference. Either it was for me to find specific data or to have an AI generate a targeted version of it the document contained as much information as possible and it is still getting updated today as this document is very much alive and almost living a life of its own.

These were the main headlines used for the CV:

  • Basic information
  • Sammendrag
  • Education
  • Certifications
  • Courses
  • Experience
  • Selected projects
  • Personality
  • Positions of trust
  • Feats
  • Participation
  • Knowledge of programming/coding
  • Knowledge of software
  • Knowledge of methodology
  • Language
  • Favorite quotes

With planned additions for favorite literature, movies, television series, tabletop and computer games.