[MUSIC] So we've created two infographic resume templates. We have a comprehensive infographic resume template and a basic version. So let's talk about the strengths of this basic version first. This would be an ideal way to guide a conversation with your current employer about a raise. About potential paths of advancement or promotion or even a hand-off to someone in a different area of the company that may not be familiar with you. We also recommend using this as a supplement to resume that got you an in-person interview. So let's first imagine that you're working at a large organization and you don't have much interaction with one of the other departments, but you might desire you're moving to that department. This would be a much less formal way of approaching somebody in that area that handing off a real resume. You can hand this off and say, we haven't really had a chance to talk, I'd love to have coffee with you, love to have lunch with you. No, I want to just highlight some of the things I've been doing that you might not know about. And hand this off to them and that gives them a little bit to think about after they'd seen you in person. The other situation that you can imagine is that you've used a traditional, a highlight or maybe one of the blended resumes to actually get yourself an in-person interview. Well, most people when they come in for an interview, at the end of the interview, they hand off that very resume that got them the interview. As somebody who is on hiring committees, I typically already have that document in my folder with notes and with highlights and with all the questions I am going to ask them during that in person interview. So if someone were instead to hand off something like this to me, they're not only showing the highlights of their employment and education. But they're also showing their future goals and talking out probably a range of skills that came up during the interview process. We probably would have talked about their strategy, their creativity, their vision, their decision making. But having this document where they're reminding me of those stories or those little pieces of information. Or evidence they shared during the interview is really going to differentiate them from somebody else that I've interviewed. This is the comprehensive infographic resume. So in preparation for making this course, I reviewed over 100 infographic resumes. I searched for them on Google and you can do the same thing. What you're going to find is there are a lot of really slick sharp looking resumes that are on the web right now. But when you actually look at what they're saying with their infographics. I found them to have less information than I really would have wanted to hand off to somebody. So in this template, I've put the major areas that I think that you should cover in your infographic resume. This doesn't mean that you have to use this template or that you can't change certain elements. I want you to go to Google and I want you to be inspired by what others are doing. But some of the things that I found I thought really took up too much space. For example, in many of the infographic resumes they may use this whole area that I'm outlining with the mouse just to talk about their software skills. I think very effectively in this small area, you can move beyond what the traditional resume did and just listing them. By using these bars to show your proficiency in each one of the key software skills you may need in your particular profession. So I just wanted to say that I definitely want you go out and be inspired by others. But you're considering the elements, think like a recruiter, think like a hiring manager, think like your boss. Who is going to get this resume from you and what do they want to know about you? Okay? So let's just take one quick peek at the traditional resume, so you can see yet again, that what you covered in that traditional resume that most people hand in is pretty basic. When you use that exact same piece of paper for the infographic resume, you're packing in so much information. We have all of the elements we have covered in the traditional resume. The professional experience, your contact information, your degrees and certificates, your listing of software skills. But we've also added in professional development experiences and also listing where you got them and what the date's where. We've added in honors and awards, memberships and again, your social media contacts. So let's go through this and let's start editing. The first that I like to do is a I like to add a second page. Microsoft Word can be extremely quirky when your working with it for the first time. Let's start simple and insert a shape. You can see that I've used the honeycomb shape here, I've used a bar here and I've used cylinders right here. Very simple to do. You go up to your menu that says Insert then you simply pick Shape. Now let's recreate the bars that I created. I'm going to pick a simple rectangle, I'm going to do it in a larger format so that you can see it very easily. I'm going to go right up to this bar, it's under Drawing tools and under Format and I'm going to fill it with the color of white. I can leave the outline in this case, but let's say for a moment that I didn't want the outline. I simply go into Outline and select No Outline. For now I'm not going to do that, so I'm going to keep this blue outline. Now, I'm going to go back in and I'm going to insert another rectangle shape. And I'm simply going to pull it over the existing rectangle shape. Now you can see that if I have this bar, which looks like this and I make another one and I just pull it back a little bit. That's showing that I have a little bit of a less skill in CSS than I do in InDesign and it was it really simple to make. So that's all that you have to do to insert a shape. I can also just show you one more. Let's insert the honeycomb shape. You can see that I've typed on it. So let's type in, manager of the year 2014. Again, I simply take the text like I would in any situation on Microsoft Word. I'm probably going to want it to be bold and I'm going to change the font size to 26, so that you can really see that. So shapes are very easily moved around the page, much more so than images which I will show you in a minute. I'm going to delete that and I'm going to delete this and now you know how to insert a shape. Again, if you need a little bit more help, just rewind it and watch it again. Now we're going to insert pictures into the infographic resume. In this case, I've used a generic icon and I actually see that used quite a bit. I've done some research on other countries and there are certain countries that would like you to have your actual photograph in your resume. So there's so many different rules in each country, it would be really difficult for me to go over them in one video. So I'd like you to take a little bit of time to Google your own country, what they expect in a resume, so you know what type of image you would put up here. So, first I'm going to have to show you how to insert a picture from your computer and then I'll also show you how to insert one from the web. So we go up to the Insert menu again and instead of a shape, we're going to insert a regular picture from your computer. A lot people surfing's on their desktop or in Google Drive or in Dropbox. I actually put some pictures, I have sample pictures that came with my computer and I'm going to use the koala for our example. Simply going to double-click on it and it's going to insert right into my scratch pad, my parking lot, my little area that I like to work it in Microsoft Word. So this is selected and actually when it comes in, it comes up with a Pictures toolbar. You can see that the size is quite big. So the first thing I like to do is go over to the template and see what is the size that we're using, and it's 1.47 by 1.47. You can also see that there's a white frame around this icon we used. We're going to put a frame around the koala as well to put it right in that same spot. So the first thing I would do, is I would look to see if I wanted to crop anything. And I can see, since this is a rectangular shape and this is more of a square, I'm going to crop some of this. So I simply select the Crop tool, and I can drag in wherever I want to. I could make it a little bit more proportional. If I cut something out that I wanted, I can just realign the image. And then I can simply go back to Crop and select it and all of the rest of the image has faded away. So now I'm going back up to this area where the measurements for the picture are. And I'm going to actually just highlight it by clicking. And I'm going to type in 1.47. Typically, these two are connected and it will resize the image in proportion so that you don't have a stretched image or something that doesn't look appropriate for your resume. Now, when I use Microsoft Word, I often have to go up to this little tool, either the tool that comes with it, Layout Options. And I always go down and I pick In Front of Text. And sometimes I also go up to Wrap Text and pick In front of Text. It depends which one you want to use. This one's pretty convenient, it comes up in a pop-up so I would just pick that one. Now we're going to take the time to put a frame around it. I chose the white frame. You can do anything you want. There are so many frames to choose from. Even once you choose it, you can actually go in over to this other area to the right and you can say you want the picture border to be a different color. You can pick the weight of the color around the picture. You can make it larger. You can make it smaller. For the purposes of this, we want to keep it very clean and very simple. You don't want to get to ornate with these types of things, so let's just keep this regular white picture frame. Now, I'm going to simply move it over, well actually I guess I will select this image first and delete it, and I'm going to move my koala bear into that same spot. Up at the top, you're going to see this nice little swirly button, and you can click on it and just simply turn it to the side to give it that nice little impact that the original image had. I think this is still looking a little bit big and you can see here the width says 1.6, and we know that the original was 1.47. So I'm just going to use the down arrow to make this a little bit smaller, and get it just the size that I want for my resume. Now let's work together to insert a picture from the web. We go right back to that famous Insert tab and we pick Online Pictures. It's pretty self-explanatory but I think it's important to go through the steps. So this will do a Bing image search. I'm going to put in Female Icon, Search. This is going to bring up a variety of icons that are tagged with Creative Commons. Creative Commons means that the person who made it and who put it on the web is allowing you to use it. Now they do put something down here that says you are responsible for respecting the rights of others including copyright. And these results are tagged with creative comments but review the license to ensure you comply. Show all of the results. That's just warning you to do your due diligence. That is if you're going to put something out there with your name on it, you want to make sure that that image is okay for you to use. I've already checked with these images before we started because I didn't want to run through that whole process while we're working together. So let's just use this icon. We simply select it and insert it the same way that we did with our last picture. Comes in very, very large. As we know, that icon that we want to replace it with is only 1.47 by 1.47. So again, we simply type in 1.47. Makes it smaller, brings it back up to our scratch pad and the next step, don't forget, is to either go to Position or Wrap Text and pick In Front of Text. Now with something like this it's going to be a little difficult to see a white frame. So in this case, I might choose a black frame. That one's far too thick, this one's a little bit too thin. So I can play around a little bit and see if they have something that works for me or I can go in and like I already showed you, customize it. So let's delete our koala bear picture. Let's bring our picture from the web over. And we can again use our little Rotation icon to put it at a little bit of an angle. And again, I would probably just decrease the height on this one. Great, okay, so what we just did can be used for any of the icons that you see on this page. I went through the exact same process to find all of these icons and to place all of them within the document, okay? So, next, I'm going to show you how to use a text box. Again, it's pretty easy, once you learn it, and you will use text boxes everywhere in this infographic resume. This is in a text box. So, what I'm going to do right now is I'm going to go up to the insert menu, and I will show you how to select Text Box. They show a lot of different examples with text boxes in some versions of Word. This one, I'm just going to select Draw Text Box and I can actually pull the text box down and make it whatever size that I want. We can start out very big, it doesn't really matter because you're going to resize everything later once you get it into the document. So, for example, Ally McApplicant, Creative Force-Proven Leadership. I'll spare you all of this long typing, I'll just type in Ally McApplicant. We go right back to that HOME button, we change the size, we bold it, and we can color the font if we'd like to. Whatever we want to do is fine. So actually, let me switch that back to black so that you can definitely see it when I move it over. And this one, we do not need this big line all around it as you can see. This line does not show. So we simply click on it. And I do a right-click and it brings up this nice menu, where you can go in and you can say you want no fill because right now the background is white, and no outline. I also just take a moment to say in front of text. Sometimes it's already selected, sometimes it's not. It's better than when you pull it over into the document, it's always better to have In Front of Text on before you pull it over. And you can see I could place this anywhere that I want in this document now, okay? So now you know how to insert a text box. And again, a text box is used all over this document. So, you can use that skill over and over again. It's time to talk about grouping and ungrouping elements in your infographic resume. It's really exciting because once you master this skill, you can create anything you want in Word or PowerPoint very easily using text box, pictures and grouping and ungrouping. So let's take a look. When we look up at our actual infographic resume, which I now have on the top, you can see that these three memberships are grouped together. This allows me to easily move them around in case I don't want them in that position any longer. Sometimes when your creating an infographic resume, if you don't use the exact template or even if you do use our template, you're going to have different experiences and different level of skills. So you're going to need to move things around. So looking down here, I've copied these and I've ungrouped them so I can show you how to group them. So first I got them into the position that I wanted, I aligned everything so that it was left justified and justified in the bottom and the right. And one tip I'll give you for doing that is that you can go up to the View menu and you can pick Gridlines. When you do that, you can easily see whether things are aligned. So actually, I can even nudge this one a little bit, because you can see the blue and red line on the M in this icon is over just a tad bit more than this one is. So I'm going to select it, and I'm going to hold the Ctrl key down, and I'm going to scooch it over just a little bit. Okay, now let's get back to grouping. I'm going to select this icon, actually let me turn off the grid lines. And I'm going to hover the mouse or I'm going to hold the Ctrl key and I'm going to hover the mouse over the next icon. So I'm going to wait for it to go from a plain cursor set to actually showing a plus sign and I can click again. And again, still holding the Ctrl key, I'm going to hover over the next one and click again. Altogether now, I can right click or I can go to the picture tools bar and select Group. So I'm going to show you both ways. On the picture toolbar, you just select the Group Menu, and you select Group. Or, once you have them selected, you can right click and your menu should bring up the Group icon. Now, I can move this wherever I want. So that was a pretty easy one. And you can see that I've done that in this area and in this area. Where all of these are group together so I can, if I suddenly wanted to put all of my contact information at the bottom, I can easily move that down instead of one by one moving those icons. The only area that you might run into a little bit of a problem is when you're talking about this big long stack of Degrees and Certificates. Some of you may have less and not want to include so many in your infographic resume. I want to first show you that it's pretty simple. Even though I have grouped, and by group I mean that each one of these listings is an individual shape. And each shape has a text box on top of it. So you know how to insert shapes and you know how to insert text boxes from the previous videos. I then selected all of them and grouped them together so that if I wanted to move them as I did when I created this infographic resume, I ended up changing things around quite a few times to make things fit. I didn't want to have to move each individual text box and shape so I just formed a group out of them. Now, I first want to show you, if you simply want fewer in this stack of credentials, you can actually go in and select individual text boxes in individual shapes and remove them. And you can make this list smaller, okay. And likewise, you can add more to it. I also wanted to just show you that if you simply wanted to change something, so for example, maybe have an MBA but you went to the University of Colorado, even though these are grouped, you can still go in and make those text changes. Likewise, if you want to change the colors, so I've different shades of color between the degrees, the certificate and then the professional development. But let's say you really wanted the professional development to be or the certificate to be yellow, to make it stand out because it happens to be in Project Management, and that was a major listing in the job description, you can make that text box smaller. Select the object, go up to drawing tools, go up to the shape fill bucket, pick the color that you want, and then don't forget to go back down and move that text box back over so that it remains centered within your object. And if you do remember when we inserted shapes, you can type right within the shape. But I found that it didn't give me the precise placement that I wanted in the shape. So that's why I used both shapes and text boxes. Okay, now I'm going to just scroll down here to show you this image. That when I ungroup it What happens is you see all of the individual text boxes and shapes. And some of them, actually loose their placement. So the way that I did this was, I have this shape on the bottom. This is a text box, let me move it. The shape on the bottom, and I made sure that I selected in front of text. However, I did that for each stack that went after it. So some of them retain that formatting. And I find this a lot in Microsoft Word, where some of them lost that formatting. And I thought that was an important thing for me to show you. Because as you go through using this template, I didn't want you to be panicked or frustrated if suddenly this shape looked different than it did in the above list. If you do lose your formatting with an object or a picture, you're just going to take a second to clean it up. This sometimes happens in Microsoft Word we're using it for a very different purpose that it was intended. We can do everything we wanted to do but sometimes we need to help it along a little bit. So, in this case most of this routine it's formatting but where it didn't I didn't want you to panic when you saw these extra circles, so basically what you need to do is just pull over your text box, select your shape. Whoops, I nudged it a little. I use the undo quite a bit. So it's a really important tool to have that at the ready, as your undo button. Then, once it's selected you can right click, and from the menu, select Bring to Front. You're then going to need to select your text box again and also bring that to front and simply slide it back into place. Make sure it's even by making sure the text box is stretched out from side to side, okay. So, that's just in case you were customizing it and something went wrong. Typically, ungrouping and grouping is going to be much easier than that. >> Great, you've completed Step 1 and Step 2 and you're halfway through the course. Now let's move on to step 3 with Anne Reed, Crafting Your Professional Pitch. [MUSIC]
