How a profile mind map can help you to stand out
Aug 12th, 2010 | By Chuck Frey | Category: Mind Mapping Insider
Jamie Nast is author of the popular book Idea Mapping: How to Access Your Hidden Brain Power, Learn Faster, Remember More, and Achieve Success in Business and a well-known visual mapping trainer. She recently wrote several posts on her Idea Mapping Blog about personal profile mind maps, which can be used as a visual resume, or as a supplement to one.
I recently conducted an audio interview with her, in which we drilled down deeper into this type of mind map and its many benefits – which go well beyond serving as a powerful differentiator for savvy job seekers. Imagine any professional setting where it’s advantageous to provide others with a colorful, visually engaging overview of your skills, experience and unique qualities. You get the idea.
This is powerful stuff, and a marvelous application of mind maps!
If you want to see examples of profile mind maps, Jamie has highlighted two of them on her blog, here and here.
If you’d like to access this report, I urge you to try out the Mind Mapping Insider program. As I pointed out in a recent post, it’s a modest investment (less than US$20 a month, or under $1 per day!) that can make a big impact on your personal effectiveness.
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Excellent! I have been using this 'profile CV' in mind map format for a number of years now. It gets you noticed, remembered often gets you the job you are after. Of course some people will react against it in the same way as they react against anything or anyone different (outside their comfort zone usually). I went down this route because I wanted to make it very clear how I communicated, it is important to use teach and use what you preach.
Just taught someone today to use a Mind Map as a CV/Profile with outstanding results
Very cool! So much of getting a job has to do with differentiating yourself – something that a mind map can do very effectively!
Many of the iMindMap trainers have a CV mind map e.g. http://www.thinkbuzan.com/trainersinfo/cv/andrew_…
Pick a trainer and you may see a link to other profiles. http://www.thinkbuzan.com/uk/trainers