MindManager contest: mind map your resume for a better job

by dragos on March 15, 2007 · 14 comments

in Mind Mapping

As I already promised, another contest starts today. This time it will be much more focused (as I saw the readers of this blog are not only familiarized with mind mapping, but also pretty creative) and it will have as a prize another free license for Mind Manager 6 from MindJet. And that, my dear folks, is 349$ prize value!

Here are the rules:

  • You must submit a mind map for a resume. Think how you can use mind mapping to make a resume not only easy to read and understand, but also interesting, challenging, and interview-prone, so to speak. And yes, it could even be your resume, how about that for a self-promoting technique :-) !
  • You must submit a real mind map, not an image of your mind map. You can keep your copyrights as you see fit, just make sure you clearly put this somewhere on the mind map
  • You must have a blog. I think everybody today has a blog, from your aunt Amelia to the best geek in the hood. If you still don’t have a blog, maybe that will be an incentive to create one, who knows?
  • You must display the badge below on your blog, linked to this post. It can be in the sidebar, or only in a self-promoting post of yourself in this contest, in the foooter, in the header, wherever you see fit, as long as it pings this page.

Mind mapping contest badge

If you are on the lazy, Gardfield-like, side of the world, just select the text in the form below and paste it into your post, or blog template.

How can you participate? As always, make a comment here and let me know from where I can pick up your mind map. May be a free hosting service, or you can send it by email. Look for the ways you can email me in the contact page.

Submissions ends on April 15th, when another, much cooler contest will start. But for now, let’s stay focused on this one!

Remember, you could win a 349$ value prize! You just can’t see this coming every day!

Good luck to all the contestants and many thanks to Simonne from AllTipsAndTricks who tipped me with this idea. And also for all the other commentors on the initial contest, I just hope they will start doing some serious mind mapping.

If they will not win the prize, they will still remain with an important asset: an original and eye-catching resume.




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1 Simonne March 15, 2007 at 1:50 pm

Hey, I got my mind mapped resume ready and sent out to a big software company which recently entered Romania. I’m curious if they are going to call me. If so, it will be hard for me to decide whether I really want to quit my “one woman show” start-up, which I’m currently running from my livingroom, or not.
Anyway, I’m going to e-mail you the CV for this contest.

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2 dragos March 15, 2007 at 2:20 pm

Thanks, good luck with your decision, whichever would be :-)

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3 Steve March 31, 2007 at 2:04 pm

Hi Dragos

See my initial entry to the MindManager CV on my blog.

best regards

Steve

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4 Steve April 1, 2007 at 10:05 am

Whoops! Error in the URL to my blog – fixed now

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5 Patrick Klug April 13, 2007 at 12:54 pm

Thanks for doing this competition!

Check out my mind map on http://www.patrick-klug.com

Happy mind mapping everyone!

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6 Arnold Villeneuve June 24, 2007 at 3:59 am

Mind Map any document! That’s right, now you can create an instant mind map of any document based on its thematic and contextual content.

Our partner Mindsystems has released the second and Business Edition of ThemeReader for $100 US. It’s a great product and incorporates Cirilab’s Knowledge Generation Engine technology, and works with XP, Vista, Word 2003 and 2007, WordPerfect X3, and the new MindManager 7. Free Trial. Give it a try!

http://www.mindsystems.com.au/products/themereader/business.htm

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7 dragos June 24, 2007 at 12:18 pm

That sounda like advertising to me. While I am honoured that my blog is considered a viable media for your product, I would highly appreciate if you would also try to advertise it in a more standard way, without mixing comments with publicity :-)

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8 Erik Huddleston July 10, 2007 at 10:49 pm

Great blog. I am glad I discovered it today. I am a fanatical MindJet MindManager user. Recently, I started migrating all my productivity tools to Web 2.0 and Enterprise 2.0 applications. One interesting way users could display their resume mindmaps is by publishing them by uploading them into a free account on MindMeister. It is a cool tool and allows you to publish “public MindManager maps to the web. Here is my screencast of my impression of it:

http://2glue.typepad.com/productivity/2007/07/application-rev.html

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