Wednesday 8 February 2012

TASK 1a - Professional profile (part 2 - CV)

This was the first task I completed. I blogged and allowed people's comments to influence my reflection as I began editing my profile. This can be seen on the post titled, TASK 1a - Professional profile. Please click on the title as its linked to the blog (I just learnt this and was dying to show that trick off).

I wanted to post a part 2 on this task as I wasn't satisfied that I'd explored it enough. At the last campus session, we discussed that performer's tend to have lots of different CVs. One for performing, one for teaching and one for day jobs. I wanted to explore the process of merging those CVs together, sifting out the unnecessary and focusing on the credits that serve me best. My latest version is to really shout about the teaching and mention the performance work at the bottom. I'm interested to know how my fellow BAPP network are doing this...


Also, I've been looking for an opportunity to use google documents and there it is. Then it occurred to me, my CV is online and I have access to it wherever. What a great tool, gone are the days where someone expresses an interest in my work and I send a hard copy of my CV. Now click a button and away you go.
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  1. Luke Bohanna10 February 2012 at 09:32

    Hi Ahmet,

    I've just started this task and am also having the issue of weather to merge my CV's together? I'm not sure some credits will be relevant for day jobs etc, however they could be crucial for castings.

    I was interested to see how to managed to put your CV together. But your link shows that your google document is private. Maybe change to access to Public or only those with a link can see it?

    Luke

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  2. Ahmet Ahmet11 February 2012 at 00:31

    Hi Luke,

    Good to see you making a start. I've changed the access to my CV as public and glad I know about this for any future documents.

    I do think with day jobs it would have to be a separate CV. But all your teaching and dancing could go on one as its all part of what you do now. However, should I go up for an acting casting, I would probably shout about the performing more. As practitioners we have many different faces to our work, I think I have learnt that a CV doesn't have to be a permanent document, it can be reshaped to suit the phase in which your work is in for now...

    Ahmet

    Look forward to your blogs.

    Ahmet

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  3. Adesola11 February 2012 at 10:33

    Interesting thoughts. In fact I use my whole web-site as my calling card from the same reasoning. Each page is kinda designed to overview a different aspect of my work.
    Adesola

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    1. Ahmet Ahmet11 February 2012 at 11:48

      A website is a great idea. It would show all your different work aspects in the colour and mood that you'd want it too. As an artist, i find it difficult to get myself across on a black and with sheet of paper. A website can really tell your story in the way you want it to be told.

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  4. Hollie Victoria Smith16 February 2012 at 05:28

    Hi Ahmet

    I really like your idea of creating a CV that shouts abouts your teaching work aswell as including your performing experience. Your CV is clear and to the point which mine lacks. So I am taking inspiration from you and hoping to develop something similar. Do you think it would work to add a link to the end of a blog profile so people can view more detail easily?

    Hollie x

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    1. Ahmet Ahmet17 February 2012 at 03:13

      Hollie,

      Good to see you on here.

      Linking the blog is a fantastic idea. It would give people a whole insight into my practice.

      Thank you

      P.S. I look at your blog now...

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  5. Simone.Grandjean18 February 2012 at 09:50

    Hi Ahmet, I'm having real trouble making my word documents into links for some reason?? If you could tell me how you did it that would be amazing..?? so far I've had to post the whole document! Thanks

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  6. Ahmet Ahmet18 February 2012 at 23:58

    No worries.

    When you have you document up on google docs. Copy the web address in the top bar. Then on your page where you compose a blog, click on link at the top row and paste the address, then ok. This hyper links everything. You can also hyper link a sentence by highlighting it first and then doing this. Let me know if you have any problems and I'll give you my number and talk you through it...

    Ahmet

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  7. Simone.Grandjean20 February 2012 at 09:21

    Thanks Ahmet, another skill I can add to my repertoire.

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  8. Hannah Louise17 March 2012 at 16:02

    Hi Ahmet,

    Glad to see you are getting on well with the course, I'm actually starting to feel a little intimidated at the amount of work you have completed, I think that's a problem with everyone sharing blogs being able to see the amount of work everyone has completed, worried you haven't done enough, but I am going to use this positively and give myself a kick-start, as i think you are a great ambassador for the BAPP programme and someone I'll reallyenjoy learning with and from. Your blogs are so interesting and useful to me as a BAPP colleague, especially as i have just seen how you have explained the tool for google documents, which I have spent the last 2 hours trying to figure out!! The joys of technology, but I have now gained another skill to add to my repertorire as Simone above has stated! The way you have merged both your performance experience and teaching expereince is done so well and reads so smoothly, I will look to use this as inspiration to merge mine. I am finiding it a little tricky with 2 very different genere's, starting my career in the performance field moving over to working for Buying in the retail industry and trying to create a CV that encompasses all skills, so I will continue reading as many blogs as possible picking up some tips and inspiration a long route!

    Thanks for all of your blogging Ahmet! I'll continue learning :)

    Hannah

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    1. Ahmet Ahmet18 March 2012 at 08:57

      Hi Hannah,

      Really good to hear from you and thank you for your kind words of encouragement, I appreciate it.

      I guess the easy thing for me is that my performance experience is directly related to what I now teach. When I thought about merging your CV, I thought about maybe splitting the page in two and place your 'Buying' credits at the top and then 'performing' under that, with headings to explain what they are. But then question is, do you want to talk about your performing to the buying world? I don't know the industry to well, but there are some jobs I have done in my past that I prefer to conceal for the sake of image and consistency - macdonald's being one of them...

      What do you think? Will your dance history go for you or against you?

      I'll take a look at your google doc.
      Ahmet

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