My curriculum vitae (CV) – my resume – in 89 words.
A four-decade career, plus other stuff I’ve been doing, all boiled down… to poke fun, some, at the current state of CV communication, and the, somewhat, wordy descriptions of job opportunities that job seekers must wade through. With some rather fascinating jargon, letting job seekers know they’re going to have to ‘execute’ on one thing or another, as they’re fully ‘satisfying’ all the stakeholders they will be servicing, so to speak.
And, speaking of… in many of the job descriptions I researched for this article, servicing may, very well, be a team effort, since job seekers are supposed to relish taking care of things, as a team. Knowing something about ‘alignment’ seems highly desired, as well. And – dare we say? – knowing, a thing or two, about ‘needs of proficiency.’
And, on top of that, as job seekers are, shall we say, taking care of stakeholders’ needs, they should be advancing a company’s narrative, which shouldn’t be all that difficult to do, with such servicing, alignment, needs of proficiency, and all, going on.
So anyway, in the spirit of poking some fun at CV and job description communications, I came up with my 89-word CV, and here it is:
About me… Harvey Radin:
During several decades with Bank of America, I advanced to senior vice president and head of Western Region Corporate Communications.
I subsequently was a PR consultant for Greater Bay Bancorp, and a senior vice president at Mullen Advertising and PR.
More than 300 guest articles and columns I’ve written, on a variety of topics, have been published in a number of media, including American Banker, Business Insider, The Patriot Ledger, Montgomery Advertiser, Las Vegas Business Press, Times of San Diego and, more recently, the Pagosa Daily Post.
I’ve got a few more wrinkles, since that picture of me was snapped.
If I were to send my abbreviated resume to some company’s HR department, would an AI (artificial intelligence) device take an initial gander at it? I’ve been hearing about AI doing that sort of thing.
And would AI get a kick out of it, or toss it in the circular file, if there still are such things, as CFs (circular files) in modern-day HR departments?
Harvey Radin is former senior vice president in charge of corporate communications and media relations, Bank of America Western Region. He makes his home in Redwood City, CA.