How to Create a Great Kloodle Profile

By Kloodle

The question often asked by students and graduates is regarding how to write a CV. Well, here at Kloodle, we believe that you will never need to write a CV again.
A CV is a marketing tool designed to showcase your talents and skills to a potential employer. Da Vinci wrote a CV back in the 16th Century - how old fashioned!

Yet, like a barnacle at the bottom of a ship, the CV continues to hang on to society - we all continue to write one despite the whole host of technologies we have at our disposal. Kloodle aims to make the CV become obsolete. We want to bring careers marketing into the 21st Century.

By creating a great Kloodle profile, graduates bring themselves into the modern era and are at the cutting edge of marketing themselves to employers. Kloodle's profiles allow a graduate to dynamically display their employability through channels such as photos, videos, document uploads and blog posts. All of these features are designed to give you the opportunity to display your talents through hard evidence to employers.

Reading through this quick guide will allow you to understand what makes a really great Kloodle profile. It will give you hints and tips on the activities you should be doing in order to generate the skills you need to propel yourself into a career in the 21st Century, and how best to evidence these skills so that graduate employers can see all of your abilities.

The revolution in graduate recruitment is here - get yourself started by reading this guide.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Kloodle
• Release date: Mar 12, 2014
• ISBN: 9781310819612

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“Graduate recruitment is changing. We’re changing it”. Phillip Hayes, co-founder, Kloodle Kloodle is an interactive online platform, revolutionising the way that graduate recruitment is undertaken. Kloodle facilitates and supports a dynamic graduate recruitment process for students and graduate employers. It does this by: Creating online communities between Students, Employers and Universities throughout the duration of students’ studies Giving students a platform from which they can build a dynamic, evolving Personal Profile throughout the duration of their studies, showcasing their academic achievements, experience and skills Providing employers with a live facility which can be used to: Interact with relevant students via blogs, adverts and posts throughout the duration of undergraduates’ studies Search for specific candidates based on qualifications and skills and obtain relevant CVs and Personal Profiles Undertake very targeted graduate recruitment advertising, direct to individual students’ Kloodle account. Promote their graduate employer brands, throughout the duration of students’ degree studies, directly towards their ideal target demographic. Kloodle for Students Kloodle provides students with a platform from which they can market themselves to and develop relationships with a huge range of potential future employers. They can do this by: Updating their kloodle profile through which they can showcase their academic achievements, experience and skills. This is continuously evolving throughout the duration of each students’ studies. Kloodle Personal Profiles are accessible to graduate employers who use the site to search for relevant graduate talent. Showcase additional skills, achievements and interests for example, involvement in sporting, musical, voluntary, etc. activities Create material to market themselves to potential employers such as: - Blogs, Videos, Photographs, Example work documents and a video biography. Participating in online discussions and blogs with potential future employers Proactively searching the wide range of graduate jobs advertised by graduate employers Receiving role advertisements into their Kloodle accounts from employers who want to engage with students with their specified degree qualifications and personal credentials. Kloodle for Universities Kloodle represents an online channel via which Universities are able to promote their brands to students and graduate employers; thus ensuring that brand profiles remain strong within a very competitive and increasingly globalised sector. It does this by: Providing Universities with an additional online platform from which they may increase brand awareness by sharing news, details about events, new appointments, academic achievements, etc. Helping to support the student recruitment process for Universities looking to attract a high calibre undergraduate population Giving individual Faculties with a platform from which they can market themselves, interact with other academics, share ideas, post blogs, promote their courses, etc. Increasing the channels through which Universities can support their students to maximise their employment prospects, post graduation Kloodle for Graduate Employers Kloodle is an interactive online platform, designed to provide graduate employers with a cost effective, dynamic method of recruiting high calibre graduate talent. Kloodle facilitates the creation of online communities and the building of relationships between students and organisations throughout the duration of students’ studies; resulting in an efficient, cost effective graduate Talent Acquisition pipeline for employers. It does this by providing an online facility through which organisations can: Interact with relevant students via blogs, adverts and posts throughout the duration of under graduates’ studies Search for specific candidates based on qualifications and skills and obtain relevant CVs and Personal Profiles Undertake very targeted graduate recruitment advertising, direct to individual students’ Kloodle accounts, based on degree courses being undertaken Promote their graduate employer brands, throughout the duration of students’ degree studies, directly towards their ideal target demographic

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Introduction

75th time is a charm.

Although it wasn’t. I received yet another automated rejection email from an online graduate recruitment application. This was becoming tiresome.

I considered myself to be a good candidate. I had averaged 88% in my previous year at university, played professional cricket for a local cricket club, completed an ironman triathlon, worked as a teacher in a local school, won a grant to complete a research project over one summer, and became a parent.

My resume was full of skills that any graduate employer would want. And yet, I was getting nowhere. The problem was that employers had so many applications to deal with, they had to cut down the numbers using crude methods such as typos and A-Level grades.

Ahhhhh, that’s where my issue was. A Level grades. Admittedly, mine weren’t great. But I was a mature student now, surely they are irrelevant. Apparently not. This seemed like an injustice. I took my A Levels 6 years previous, and yet, they were now counting against me. There must be a better way, a way to show employers that you are more than just your grades, a way to show employers that you will make a difference to their organisation.

I started to think. What if there was a site where you could evidence all of these skills? What if I could’ve shown an employer the resilience and motivation it took to complete an Ironman? What if I could have shown them the cricket team I played