Will You Review My CV?

In this episode had the pleasure to learn from a real industry HR expert in getting real insights on your resume preparation and interview readiness. Link to website: www.Millernet.ca Link to website: www.influencegenius.com Instagram: @pattymiller123 LinkedIn profile: http://linkedin.com/in/millernethr

In this episode, Allen Wazny has the pleasure of interviewing Zeeshan Sajid Amin, a Business Growth Expert and Management Consultant based in Dubai. Zeeshan has taken the initiative to submit a LinkedIn post describing his prior job search efforts which lead to his success today in working in sales and consulting. Link to Zeeshan’s LinkedIn profile: http://linkedin.com/in/zeeshansamin Link to Zeeshan’s personal website: www.zeeshansajidamin.com

In this episode, Allen Wazny reflects upon the informal career advice he has been providing since August 2018 and how, in his view, it transformed into more of a career development kit (or CDK) for job seekers across the globe. The idea to classify such advice as a “CDK” arose after Allen updated the advice he initially provided to Hazan Raza Javaid, a qualified ACCA accountant out of Lahore, Pakistan. Allen posted such advice on Facebook titled “Career Advice #62” dated 18 November 2019.

In this episode, Allen Wazny has a chance to chat with Alice Hlidkova to learn about her unique ability to create awareness of her talents and those of the companies and individuals she works with. In fact, Alice provides a “blue print” for one job seeker in South Africa that could be a model for women and men across the globe. This is a link to her personal website: https://www.alicehlidkova.com/. Follow this link to her book: https://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Girl-Complex-Story-Superheroine-ebook/dp/B07YZVCVFG/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=pretty+girl+complex&qid=1573685070&sr=8-1. Follow this link to the New Economies website: https://www.neweconomies.com/

In this episode, Allen Wazny outlines how is job advice suggestions on LinkedIn in March 2019 to civil engineer, Athif Ahmed Mehboob resulted in improving his confidence while conducting his job search in Dubai. On 7 April 2019, Athif informed Allen that he successfully started a role as junior engineer with a DUBAI-based firm!

In this episode, Allen Wazny has a unique opportunity to interview Azmil Hakim. This is a follow-on from the February 2019 exchange on LinkedIn whereby Azmil’s job search post went viral (over 15,000 views) and ended with a feature article in World of Buzz.

In this episode, Allen Wazny takes time to highlight a few job search techniques (or approaches) that had gone viral or at least managed to get the attention on LinkedIn beyond the individual’s normal network.

In this episode, host Allen Wazny seeks to provide practical ideas on how a healthcare professional can conduct an alternative job search, particularly if existing avenues and efforts have kept the individual unemployed or working in a role that is less than desirable. As with many earlier podcasts, Allen seeks to outline several steps to approaching: 1. Healthcare startups or innovative tech companies in the healthcare sector 2. Healthcare venture capital companies and their focus on hiring medical doctor’s, physicians, scientists and related professionals to guide during the investment and post investment process 3. Administrative or technical support roles “over the platform” 4. Outreach via LinkedIn

In this episode, Allen Wazny makes the analogy to the famous movie, “Slum Dog Millionaire”, based upon the incredible technology and innovation revolution that is under way in India. Allen is frequently requested by India-based service providers to see if the European and North American companies he works for are interested in engaging them. This includes web design, content creation, marketing and advertising, video creation and coders / developers for web and mobile applications. What is surprising is the incredible breadth and depth of startups across India that could benefit from the very home-grown talent that such individuals are seeking to export. So, when Allen is asked if such services are required by the companies he is working with, he immediately turns around to say: “Have you looked to see what slumming your dog is doing in the back yard?”

In this episode, Allen Wazny seeks to outline how he recently provided career advice to an MEP Engineer in Dubai. What was the advice? Using LinkedIn to find like minded individuals in similar or more senior roles. Using LinkedIn and other social media to follow the companies he was seeking to work for. Subscribe to their news feeds to find out about the existing projects they are working on and any new projects in the pipeline. Finally, using the “personalized message” feature on LinkedIn to more effectively reach out to individuals in these companies.

In this episode, Allen Wazny seeks to provide some thoughts on the growing demand of Venture Capital firms hiring support personnel across the platform. This includes HR, marketing, finance and other back office support that is growing in importance as VC firms expand their portfolio. That is definitely one potential area that many job seekers may overlook or not realize is available.

In this episode, the host of the podcast series, “Will You Review My CV?”, Allen Wazny, seeks to highlight the similarities with his 14 year old daughter and her fear of (or apprehension with) taking a technology-related option at school and that of job seekers getting introduced to technology (SaaS) later in their career.

In the episode, Allen Wazny seeks to explain how he migrated from giving “surface level” career advice in public to giving “specific details” on how to more effectively use LinkedIn for your job search outreach.

In this episode, Allen Wazny highlights two scenarios in which one insurance broker is using legacy systems to manually gather quotes for a potential home insurance policy and one broker is working for a company that uses an AI-enabled insurance SaaS to gather such quotes. Who’s CV do you think will prevail on the job market in the coming months or years?

In the episode, Allen Wazny seeks to provide feedback on what lead him to change the career advice he was providing through the LinkedIn portal and expand into adhoc advice to job seekers across the globe.

In this episode, Allen Wazny seeks to provide examples of digital marketing SaaS that can be applicable to a job seeker with a sales and marketing background.

In this episode, Allen Wazny seeks to make a comparison to the Gary Vaynerchuk analogy in business of “finding the Open Space” to reverse engineer his activities to take steps that are the complete opposite to what everyone else is doing. This can be applied in job search by taking steps to enhance your skills relative to your profession and/or discipline to stand out from the rest of the pack.

In this episode, Allen Wazny expands upon his podcast from 25 June 2019 whereby he focused on the need to understand the latest SaaS available on the global market for your sector or functional area of business when circumstances in your current role do not permit adoption of such SaaS.

In this episode, Allen Wazny provides commentary on the young finance professional in Qatar that was seeking career advice and after receiving a handful of suggestions to improve his job search, the young man indicated “I am ready to pay” for review of his CV.

In this episode of the podcast series “Will You Review my CV?”, Allen Wazny highlights the difficulties of job search and why “paying me to review your CV” will not guarantee that you will find a role. In fact, such money will be wasted if your follow-on use of LinkedIn lacks awareness of some basic features including the 300 character personalized message.

In this podcast, Allen Wazny focuses on his initial career advice he informally provided to individuals on the LinkedIn career advice portal. Allen sets the stage for future podcast on how he realized that providing career advice is more about the candidates themselves and less about what he had done to “retool” and pivot his skills.

In this Episode of “Will You Review my CV?”, Allen Wazny explores the concept of “stay in your lane” when it comes to the disciplines of the work force. Allen draws upon the expertise of David Ulevitch, General Partner at Andreesen Horowitz and Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia to make the point that as a CFO, he would struggle to make himself relevant in today’s social media and technology wired world if he had simply “stayed in his lane” over the last couple of years.

SaaS verticals are prevalent in virtually all disciplines (accounting, HR, finance, Cybersecurity, marketing, etc) and all sectors (banking, insurance, construction, retail, hospitality, healthcare, education). Yet, many companies continue to be tied to legacy ERP systems and yet readily reject new SaaS as being too expensive, not compatible or not secure. In turn, frontline staff not using or becoming familiar with such SaaS will diminish their value and competitive edge over the next 18 months to 5 years. Essentially reviewing their “CV” will be a bigger challenge as tech passes them by. So whether or not your company adopts such tech, individuals can not afford to ignore it.

In this introductory podcast, Allen Wazny describes the nuances behind CV review. He makes a comparison to Steven Covey’s famous line “feed a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, you feed him for a lifetime.” Allen will not review your CV but he will provide you with tools on how to improve your job search for the long haul.