Make Your Application Stand Out From The Crowd!

When you are competing with so many people for jobs, just getting your application noticed can be a challenge - the trick is to find a way that makes your application stand out and then be so compelling that they will want to interview you first. How about making your application a talking application with your own voice and your own photos?

With digital photography possible on all sorts of devices that we carry around now, it is pretty easy to put together a small collection of shots that reflect the key messages you want an employer to know about. What you look like, something really great you have done, someone giving you a prize or an award or the prize or award itself - you get the picture?

Then you gather these pictures together, put in some clever transitions and movements and tell the story you want the employer to hear. "I won this prize for brilliant customer service - I would like to bring these skills to your business"... or whatever you think is going to present you in the best light. Or take a photo of the place you want to work with you standing there: "imagine me in your business, I can".

How impressed do you think the prospective employer might be? Not just because you are standing out from the crowd but because you have bothered to go the extra mile with your application.

Too hard? not at all - after all, you know how to take the pictures, so you are half way there. All you need now is to learn a little more about digital story telling. Using the software I suggest and following my tutorials you can be making your won digi-application within an hour of download!

Before I go much further let me tell you why I am telling you about this. Over the last two or three years I have worked with hundreds of teachers and their students to help them find ways to express themselves using new and emerging technology. The best tool we came to work with was digital story telling because it is easy to learn, fun to do and the end product is always unique. I get such a buzz out of seeing people get over the surprise of hearing their own voices and putting together their first story - just to see their faces makes it so rewarding. And because I got so much out of it I just wanted to share it with as many people as possible.

So I created a digital story about making a digital story! I also created a printable version so that people can follow it on paper as well and then I drew together all the software elements that you might need and created a single digital story telling starter kit. I am so confident of what I have put together that I promise everyone they will have produced their first movie within an hour of getting themselves set up! Don't you be the first one to prove me wrong, please!

Using digital story telling for a job application is just one way, once you get into digital story telling you will think of so many ways in which you can use it - check out my movie star dog on the website! Once you have won the job you can then use the same technique to make presentations to colleagues, report on trips and activities or share stories with friends.

It is hard to describe digital story telling until you have a go and realize how easy and fun it can be. People will be so impressed at the effort you have taken - better not tell them just how easy it was!