I'm in a unique situation where I don't have to work [1]. Ok, maybe at some point I need to do something so I can justify a couch for our little freecycle decorated apartment and I wouldn't mind upgrading our wine from two buck chuck to something in the $5 range. But I'm making a conscious choice to dig deep in my search to find something I can be passionate about and I want to take full advantage of this opportunity.
If you ask anyone who knows me or has met me in person, they will tell you that I am passionate. If asked to describe me in a single word I bet 95% would say passionate even without a picklist. Yet I think passion is very difficult to recognize in today's hectic real-time 140 character world. The subtle nuances of emotion visible during a face-to-face conversation are hard to detect through the web, especially if they've already scrolled off the bottom of the page or get stuck at the bottom of the inbox. Energy, excitement and passion seem to get lost in the digital conversion to 0s,1s and ABCs.
The last time I wrote a resume and interviewed for a job was 20 years ago and I'm struggling with ways to show my passion in this digital age. Bits and words fly before our eyes in record quantities, how do you make them stand out?
If you ask anyone who knows me or has met me in person, they will tell you that I am passionate. If asked to describe me in a single word I bet 95% would say passionate even without a picklist. Yet I think passion is very difficult to recognize in today's hectic real-time 140 character world. The subtle nuances of emotion visible during a face-to-face conversation are hard to detect through the web, especially if they've already scrolled off the bottom of the page or get stuck at the bottom of the inbox. Energy, excitement and passion seem to get lost in the digital conversion to 0s,1s and ABCs.
The last time I wrote a resume and interviewed for a job was 20 years ago and I'm struggling with ways to show my passion in this digital age. Bits and words fly before our eyes in record quantities, how do you make them stand out?
