VisualCV has had a refresh, and in this video I'm going to give you
my initial impressions and thoughts about the new interface.
Hi there. I'm Dr.
Anthony. Llewellyn, and I'm the career doctor.
I'm here to give you the best medical
career advice on YouTube, LinkedIn and Facebook.
So many of you know that I'm a big fan
of online CV builders, and the product that I'm currently using
or have been using for many years is VisualCV.
So if you're a client working with me, which you can be if you want to be,
we'll be using generally VisualCV to help with your CV or resume.
So at least the links in the description
below about how you can become a client, or if you're interested in checking out
VisualCV, I will leave an affiliate link in the description below.
But the subject of this video is the new interface for Visual CV.
Now,
if you just go to the VisualCV Landing page or homepage, which is VisualCV.
Com and you've been using VisualCV
recently, you probably won't notice a lot of difference.
But if we go into login and you haven't
logged in for, say, a few weeks now, you will see something completely
different to what you're generally used to.
There is a new dashboard.
So this is the main change that has been implemented.
They released this just prior to Christmas, 2021.
I think it looks fantastic, actually.
I think it clears up a lot of challenges
that I was finding with clients that were using the VisualCV product.
Yeah, I think overall, I really do like it.
I think the main thing that I particularly like is we now have thumbnails.
So previously, if you remember VisualCV,
if you had a number of CVs, you'd have a list of them in your dashboard.
But
other than making sure that your title, it right and said this CV was this year
for this job or whatever, it wasn't clear what you were going
to look at when you clicked on it, but now you've got a visual representation
of thumbnail of what the first page and CV resume looks like.
Apparently, you also get that with cover letters.
And if you're using the new website
functionality, which is just basically way of transferring a CV,
a resume to a kind of a web format, you get a thumbnail of that as well.
So I think this is good.
This is going to be really helpful, particularly for people who are using
Visual CV over a long period of time and maybe put together a number of resumes
and wanting to quickly get to the one that they want to work on.
The other thing that I think they've cleared up.
This is something you could have done
previously, but if you Hover over, you notice you've got a few options here.
You can go into edit.
You can download as a PDF quickly, which is great.
You can share a link if you want to share it on the web.
But if you also click on this, you can see that you can pin certain CVS.
You can download it in a word beta.
That's kind of a bit hit and miss still,
but you can duplicate and you can get your stats and you can alter your settings.
But you can duplicate your CV.
One thing that I think wasn't quite
obvious from the previous visual CV, and I think it's a little bit more obvious
this time is that you're always able to start your next CV with a previous CV.
So the way that used to work was you click on Create your resume for a job,
and they would give you this option to copy an existing resume.
But it wasn't obvious because it says create a resume.
So you think I'll have to start a new one.
But I usually recommend that you do start with an existing CV.
Generally, each time you're wanting to make some changes,
you do want to make sure that you haven't left anything in there.
That's not good for the current job,
but usually if you start with a previous CV, that's going to accelerate your time.
And it's one of the reasons and benefits of having an online CV builder.
So I think that's great.
So we've got resumes and of course we can then go and see all our resumes.
So we get kind of, I guess a different sort of dashboard here
and we can pin resumes so we can put our favourite ones at the top.
And they will also show through in the main dashboard.
I'll show you how that works.
So if I click on this one here
pin so that should now be there Michael Jones, and then I go to the main
one and that will be sitting there as well.
So that's good. So we've got a second kind of dashboard
where again we can see all our previous CVS and resumes.
Now some of these don't have thumbnails.
I think this is because they're sort of older.
Probably your easy thing is just to copy
it and start again and it will show up as a thumbnail.
But you can probably also contact visual
CV and ask them for a little bit of assistance there.
So going back to the MacBook, so we've got the top here in the heading bar.
We've got resumes websites, cover letters,
career Journal that's also always been there.
But it's kind of not being obvious to people what that is.
I don't use it as yet.
Personally, I think this would be a good spot to if you're going to keep
a reflective Journal in your training to do that.
And then again, you may be able to draw
on that for inspiration for your resume in the future.
So that's kind of an extra added bonus for people.
Nothing really has changed in terms of when you go into edit same sort of look
and feel well, maybe the menu has changed a little bit.
I think it's a little bit more obvious where you can download now.
I think this preview mode is new.
However, this is where I would sort
of start to say that there could be some extra improvement over time because
the issue with the preview mode and I'll show you this now, if I go into download
and download this as a PDF, this resume actually goes just for two
pages, but the preview doesn't give you the page breaks.
It'll be really handy if it could.
I'm regularly in conversation with some
of the people that visual CV because I am a pro user, so to speak.
And this is probably a suggestion that I
would sort of put forward to them for something to improve in the future.
So we've got a preview mode, which is new.
I think the share button is new.
More obvious place to download it.
You've got the option of a PDF, which is what I generally recommend.
You can download it in a word beta, but often you'll find you'll get some
formatting problems and it only works for certain CV templates as well.
Not much else is really altered from the product that you're probably used
to if you've been using in the last few months.
Other than also to say that there are a number of new templates.
So what we got here? 12345 six new templates,
which may be worth playing around with and seeing if you like.
Remember, some of these will have photos
on them, but you don't necessarily need to add a photo.
So as you know,
I don't advise putting a photo on a kind of professional CV or resume may work if
you're a kind of more creative industry, but certainly not in a professional CV.
So you get a few more options to play with.
Unfortunately, none that I guess this is split.
But
again, another thing I've said
to the Visual CV marketing team is I'd like to see a few more right handed format
double column CVS, by which I mean the shorter column is
on the right rather than on the left would be good, because basically I've tried
a few of these others, but generally I find this is my preferred
template, the modern I think that gives you the best effect.
So anyway, some new templates to play
around with as well, which is also welcome.
So that is a wrap up of my initial
impressions with a new user interface for visualCV.
Overall, I think a good improvement.
Great to see some new developments around
the editing side of CVs going into the future, but really well done, guys.
VisualCv and please cheque it out if you haven't checked it out recently.