Artistic Resumes

Enjoy the gallery in the link below. One caveat. If you are in a looking for a position in a field, (like accounting) or an organization (like the IRS) in which artistic license is frowned upon most often than not, DO NOT GO TOO CREATIVE ON YOUR RESUME. Remember the sad example of the "Impossible is Nothing" job application. Having said that, you can learn a thing or too in the resume gallery.
Take a look: http://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2009/05/30-artistic-and-creative-resumes/

Position @ Display Business

Part-time production graphic designer position in SLC at Display Business Inc., email resume to lance@displaybusiness.com 

New Position at LDS Church HQ

The LDS Church HQ leadership and management development team is seeking to fill a critical role and need your help. The following position is now posted on thehttp://www.lds.org/emp/new/home.html site.
Here is the thumbnail sketch description:

INSTRUCTIONAL AND MEDIA DEVELOPMENT
- Design and write key management presentations to be delivered to the First Presidency and Presiding Bishopric
- Personally be able to develop and manage others as they develop electronic learning via traditional synchronous and asynchronous platforms
- Personally be able to provide and manage others to provide graphic design, audio and video editing, flash development, HTML development, and document publishing capability to deliver multiple types of media & learning solutions
- Own the intellectual property and church correlation processes for all content and development solutions created and delivered to the organization.
- Own the updating and continual improvement of instructional and media products delivered to the organization.


PROGRAM MANAGEMENT
- Interface with corporate partners in IT and Audio Visual to outline project requirements, define budgets, and manage, direct and influence the work.
- Assemble cross functional teams of subject matter experts in an open and engaging way identify best practices and identify and design critical learning content for 30 key topic areas of leadership and management
- Own the strategy for designing and developing a web 2.0 platforms and community presence with other corporate partners, providing a space for managers and leaders to collaborate and participate in joint mentoring
- Manage graphic artists, instructional designers, and media developers both internally and externally of the organization, contract and volunteer, to create core learning elements and branding collateral
LEARNING DESIGN
- Identify, design and write learning content to be used in 30 plus online learning guides, used by managers and their people to identify the best available learning paths for becoming competent in a certain aspect of leadership and management.
- Write and produce workshops, including the audio visual presentation, learner guides and trainer guides, teaching the basics of leadership and management strategies and processes at the Church

REQUIREMENTS
- Masters degree in instructional design or a like field
- 6-10 years experience developing media, designing instruction, and managing programs
- Portfolio of work samples demonstrating graphic design and development and instructional design and development capability. Must be work that you personally created.
- Experience in management and leadership development preferred.


TRAITS/ABILITIES
- Thrives with change
- Confident self starter, can act for themselves without a lot of management oversight
- Takes feedback openly
- Able to juggle many different projects at the same time and be able to prioritize them according to present need
- Enjoy working in a fast paced and high expectation environment
- Able to turn around work quickly


NECESSARY DEVELOPMENT CAPABILITY

This position requires a minimum level of intermediate expertise in the following development tools.

- Graphic Design (Photoshop and/or Illustrator or like tools)
- Flash animation (Using Adobe Flash)
- Web Design (Using HTML/Dreamweaver or like tools)
- Video editing (Using adobe premier or like tools)
- Document publishing (Using Adobe InDesign or like tools)
- Presentation Design (Using PowerPoint)
- Audio recording, editing, splicing (Using Audacity or like tools)
- Web 2.0 technologies (Blogs, Wikis, etc.)
- Webinar design and delivery tools (Using WebEx or like tools) 

Coming Soon:The Refugee Start-Up Series

In the FOX TV series GLEE, Sue Sylvester (Jayne Lynch's character) mercilessly berates the cheer leading team she coaches by asking a rhetorical question: “Do you think this is hard...?” and then she invites people to try facing some hardship like living with Hepatitis. For those of you who are facing unemployment, for those of you who feel you and your business are a failure, I have something I would like to share. Do you think this is hard? try being chased out of your home because of your race, or your political affiliation; try having the neighborhood that you grew up in being torn apart by war, hatred and destruction; try being forced to flee your homeland and having to spend months, or even years in a camp.

These are the type of experience thousands of refugees possess in their memories. I have had the privilege of meeting individuals who have gone through these type of hardships and  have overcome their hardships with amazing resilience. I would like to share with you a series of stories about refugees who overcame hard, unimaginable obstacles, and still held on to their dreams and desires of self-improvement by starting their own businesses and obtain success. Unlike coach Sylvester, I  hope The Refugee Start-Up series will be  a source of inspiration for those who are facing bumps in the road, I assure you they have been an inspiration to me.

BTW: The beautiful drawing above was made by artist/activist Ashley Cecil.