This is perhaps the hardest part. After all, you want to show so much of yourself to demonstrate what you can do. But the problem is that anything that does not directly support your core message distracts from your argument and therefore weakens your story.
Step 4: Visualization
Now that all the less good and irrelevant ideas have been eliminated, it is time to visualize the list to data remaining ideas. Only now are we going to play in Powerpoint. Try not to cram too much information onto one slide, limit yourself to only one topic per slide. In the previous steps you have already formulated topics and described each of these topics with only one sentence per topic. Think for each topic which picture represents it best.
For the visuals you can use different sources, depending on your personal preference. If you don't feel like making images yourself you can use stock photo sites like Google Images, Shutterstock and Dreamstime .
The old-fashioned way of using pen or pencil and paper is often still the best way to give shape to an idea.
In graphics packages such as Photoshop and Illustrator you can create practically anything you can think of – if you have the relevant packages and are proficient in them.
Instead of picking ready-made photos from the internet, which thousands of others are probably already using, you can also take photos yourself.
Every image you find on the internet is copyrighted . Keep this in mind when you distribute your resume online. Also use unique images, you want to be distinctive with your visual resume. How distinctive is your resume if thousands of others use the same stock photos as you? If you use stock photos, buy them. It looks poor if you use an image from a stock photo website with the name of the website still branded into it.