Converting... CV to Blog Profile

Looking through the handbook and decided to start working through the tasks, beginning with...

Describing you and your practice - Rewrite you CV as a Bio for the blog

As I am still fairly new to the industry in a professional sense so this task didn't take too long as I haven't got great volume of experiences and jobs to talk about, also I have done a similar task recently, creating a bio for my companies show programmes. 

Comparing both I notice some differences, and I think this is mainly down to the different platforms that these bios will be read on. For the show programmes readers will know where I are working and what my job is, as they are there watching me dance, so the bio is tailored more to explaining my training, previous roles within the company, and other stage experiences I had prior to joining the company. Whereas writing the bio for my blog readers don't necessarily know what my profession is, so going into great detail on my past experience in the field is somewhat irrelevant. Instead I stuck a basic out line of what my job is, the company I work for and where I trained.

Also there is a grammatical difference, for the programme bio I was asked to write in the third person, this is to stylistically match all of the bios, and to keep a more professional feel to the copy of the programme. Comparing this to my blog bio, I wrote this in the first person as felt it is more personal and people that interacting with the blog are in essence interacting with me as an individual, rather than 'about me' via a company website or alike.

Importance of CVs in dance?

Reflecting on this it got me thinking the importance of previous roles and performance experience on a ballet dancers CV. This I think is slightly different to CVs for other jobs, whilst there is still a need for experience in the field there is also an emphasis on technical qualifications and skills within and outside of specific field this is outlined in a blog post on LinkedIn  Some of the points the blog makes are applicable to a ballet dancers CV but some are less so. In Ballet I believe companies are less interested in what qualifications and other skills you may have, they are essentially hiring you for your body and how you can move it. Experience is generally preferred as they need to know you can be trusted on perform on stage, and often you schooling is important as companies may perform in a specific style of ballet that you may be tr

ained in. With all that said with ballet being a visual performance art, the most important thing for a company to consider hiring is you, your body, your dancing. Photos and videos of you performing are in the end what will get you a job rather than what is on your CV.

This is just some thoughts I have had on the area and some that I will definitely come back to in the future, as when inevitably I have to transition outside out of dance, I will need to reconsider my CV and its content.

Petrone, P (2018) 'How to Write a Resumé That Will Actually Get Recruiter's Attention', Linkedin The Learning Blog, 24 September, Available at https://learning.linkedin.com/blog/advancing-your-career/how-to-write-a-resume-that-will-actually-get-a-recruiter-s-atten (Accessed: 29 September 2019)