CREATING A FRENCH CV

I live in France, I am open for suitable possibilities to earn an income and so I made an appointment with the local employment office to discuss the possibilities in this region, for me. They requested me to bring an up-to-date CV.

My most recent CV was 4 years old and in Dutch, so it didn’t only need a quick update, it needed a complete make-over!

First, I looked for a French example on the internet and I transferred my information into it. While  doing this, I noticed that my energy drained away and I experienced no fun in the activity.

I know these days, that when this happens, I should do something else. So I wondered what I was missing here and I saw that I was creating a CV from an idea of ‘how it needs to be done’. But what I was doing had no relation with the good energy flow that comes from taking my own needs into account as well!

So, this concept went into the bin and I decided on the spot that I wanted to create a CV that would 100% feel good to me.  I believe in ‘send = receive’. In practicing what I have learned about that principle, I have to be 100% satisfied with what I send, in order to receive what I really want. And what I want is to earn money with using all my versatile qualities.

The minute I decided that I wanted to make a 100% energetic sound CV to me, my energy came back to me and I immediately had a few ideas how to put this together.

I had found recently a rapport that was made about me in 2003, when I worked as  a middle manager. It was based on the Belbin-method of team roles. When I found it, the other day, I still found its description of  me  ‘spot on’.

I translated it in French and I added ‘my soul dream’ to it. Those few lines where the result of a lot of soul searching this summer, reaching for the essence of ‘what makes me happy, to the core’, stripped from all practicalities.

I added my work-experience and education to the file and these were the basic ingredients for my CV-to-be.

I just started playing with it. I made lines shorter, arranged items in coherent groups, trying to be as clear and short as possible.

By the time I was happy with the content, I also wanted it to look nice. I was faced with an interesting challenge. It was too much to fit one page, but having two pages… the pages looked  too empy to my liking.….

I was very pleased with the creative, colorful way I found later to implement all the information on 1 page.  I was getting close to the point of ‘100% good energy’ now. Still, I was missing something.. it didn’t completely fit together as I wanted it to be and I just let it ‘simmer’ in the back of my head.

Letting my mind ‘blow’ during a walk with the dog on the terrain, being open for answers, an image appeared in my mind. I looked more closely at it, felt it was representing me in a way I liked. So, I decided to find such an image on the internet and add it to my CV.

I found a nice picture of this item,  flipped it horizontally and changed the colors to match the design for my CV. Then I imported it in the file.

Just following my intuition on ‘where to put it’ and then changing what else needed to be changed in size or position… within a few minutes it all came together, firing of this energy spark in me indicating:”Now it is 100% good”.