{"id":285,"date":"2018-08-31T14:18:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T12:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bmugdev.wpengine.com\/?p=285"},"modified":"2022-01-27T18:35:37","modified_gmt":"2022-01-27T16:35:37","slug":"brightermonday-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/brightermonday-profile","title":{"rendered":"An Updated BrighterMonday Profile; Why And When Should I Update My Profile?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Have You Updated Your BrighterMonday Profile?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With the stiff competition in today\u2019s labor market, one has to find ways of standing out in order to survive. Uploading one\u2019s CV to<\/span><a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> our online job portal<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is not enough! One has to find a way to still stand out from all other attached Cvs which is by essentially having a complete Brightermonday job seeker profile and regularly updating it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With <\/span><a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, having a completed job seeker profile means having a 100% profile completion status that is very visible each time one looks at their profile. One is able to get to this 100% profile completion status by:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adding a professional profile picture.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adding a career summary about oneself.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Completing the work experience profile section by listing at least one or more jobs they have held highlighting their job title, company, period during which they held the job as well as the roles they were tasked to carry out under their job title.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listing the education levels one has gone through including any relevant training and certifications one may have attained as well as where and during which period they attained them. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Adding one\u2019s language skills as well highlighting their level of proficiency in each of the languages they know.&nbsp;<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Highlighting any relevant associations one could be affiliated with.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listing the necessary job skills one has. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Listing any personal interests one could have. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Uploading one\u2019s Cv and ensuring all the information added is saved. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that we are well aware of how to have a completed BrighterMonday profile, here are some of the reasons it is really important to keep it regularly updated.<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>One has a Readily Available Online Cv; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">A complete profile is able to showcase all the important and necessary details of one\u2019s Cv at a glance. Many times, employers will not have the time to look for or go through the process of downloading one\u2019s Cv. &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;Being able to get all the information they need about someone at a glance is much faster and easier. Furthermore, this also makes it easy for one to formulate a proper Cv with updated information each time they need it as all the information they need is readily available online. <\/span><b>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<\/b><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>More Visibility;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Every job seeker yearns to have their Cv much more visible to thousands of recruiters. What better way to do that than to have a completed profile that is readily available each time the thousands of recruiters using the BrighterMonday website are searching for specific skills. Each time these recruiters use keywords to search for possible recruits with specific job skills, the immediate results will be those of people that have completed profiles and with the relevant skills.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>Presents one as a Credible and Professional Person; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">One\u2019s profile makes the first impression of them in a recruiter\u2019s eyes. One with a fully completed and professional profile is more likely to have a positive impression on a recruiter than one with a half-completed profile. One\u2019s online profile acts as their Sales pitch selling the skills they have to offer which can either land them an interview or not. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Such a Profile is More Attractive; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">With a complete and updated profile, one is not only able to have their skills more visible but more attractive as well to any recruiter. With the BrighterMonday profile, one is able to have their skills well organized and clearly stated making it easy for any recruiter to read through. Furthermore, this enables one to easily add their accomplishments and skills and therefore easily highlight their career growth to any recruiter looking through their profile.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>When does one update the Profile?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">BrighterMonday enables one to record every achievement that is relevant to their career through their profile. By allowing for this, any job seeker is able to keep their Cv information up to date as well as highlight their career progression. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is advisable for one to update their BM profile:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>When one attains a promotion; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">if one has been able to move from one rank to another in their job, it is important for one to document it. This is not only able to communicate <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">the work experience one has but also puts one at a greater chance of obtaining another job at a higher rank in a company. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>When one attains a new qualification; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether it is a Postgraduate degree or simply a training or diploma certificate, putting this information on one\u2019s profile is important. This shows that one has been able to grow as far as their qualification is concerned hence are more marketable.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b><b>When one changes a job; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">changing a job also shows one\u2019s career progression and growth in one\u2019s working experience. This information is bound to attract any recruiter to find out &nbsp;more about someone and read through their curriculum vitae.<\/span><\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>When one changes their job industry; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">say one moves from the teaching industry to the sales job industry or field. It is important to note this because it allows one to sell himself as someone capable of also performing in their new industry hence opens up more doors for them. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>When one attains a new skill;<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Be it a language or any other job skill, highlighting the new skills one has attained also makes them more marketable for the job. That new skill could just be what the recruiter has been searching for for a long time. <\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><b>When one joins a new Association; <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Being affiliated with different associations especially those relevant to one\u2019s career is very important. The more relevant associations one is affiliated with, the more connections they have and employers find connections very important in growing their businesses.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In summary, let your BrighterMonday profile speak volumes about you when a recruiter looks at it. Stand out and stand a chance to take your career to the next level by completing and updating it right <\/span><a class=\"article-body-links\"href=\"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/?utm_source=sendgird&amp;utm_campaign=profile_completion&amp;utm_medium=email\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Here <\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">today. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Find out how and why it&#8217;s important to update your BrighterMonday job profile to stand out ahead of the crowded job market<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":1241,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[136],"content_author":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-career-development","tag-active-entry-level"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"content_author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brightermonday.co.ug\/discover\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content_author?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}