PART II: Creating your personal profile

A profile is a banner headline of your main selling points. This is a short summary highlighting your key skills and attributes relevant to the position you are applying for. It should paint a highly favorable picture of you and indicate your strengths. Your summary must be completely truthful and should;
- Give a brief of who you are
- Highlight your main skills and experience
- Communicate personal attributes
- Motivate the reader to want to know you

Sell yourself in 30 seconds
A profile sets the pace for the rest of the CV and preconditions the reader. There are 20 universally admired personality traits. The reader of your profile searches your personal profile to determine what kind of a person you really are. the presence of these keys tells the reader how you feel about yourself.
The following phrases therefore project your identity to the reader.
Personal
Drive/Aggressive: A desire to get things done

Motivation: Enthusiasm. A motivated person savages challenges and will go that extra mile to get things done.

Communication Skills: Your ability to talk and write effectively to people at all levels in an organization is the key to success. Ability to listen and understand.

Chemistry: Are you at ease with yourself and everyone else in the company? Do you always wear a smile and don't easily get rattled? Are you a team player? well point is, Chemistry can take you places!

Energy: Do you give that extra effort in the little things and important ones?

Determination: Despite the going getting tough, do you have the knack of moving on?

Confidence: Gracefulness, friendly, honest, and open to all high and below? do you get intimidated

In PART III we'll look at the professional phrases to project your identity.

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