Stand out from the competition: PowerBI CVs
Hi everyone.
Hope you are all doing well! I have seen across my network recently that a lot of people are looking for work - it’s a strange time.
Anyway, if you work in the same space as me, maybe it would be worth building your CV in PowerBI to help highlight your skills right off the bat! Additionally you can include a bunch of good links to showcase your portfolio etc.
I’ve seen quite a lot of good Tableau CVs, but that practice doesn’t seem to have the same traction in the PowerBI community. Competition is fierce at the moment so why not give it a try?
To give you some inspiration, here’s my CV in PowerBI format (try going fullscreen using the bottom right arrows):
I won’t write a tutorial to create a PowerBI CV, as obviously you’ll want to do it yourself to showcase your own skills and design style.
Some pointers though;
I wanted to create this CV using only free materials, as people without a role currently are less likely to have access to pro licenses, databases etc. Therefore, my example is built on PowerBI desktop (you can download for free*) using a excel file on my local machine as a data source. If you don’t have excel, GoogleSheets would also work and is free.
I’d recommend having a “front page” almost like a website for your useful links to anything you want to show off, perhaps portfolios, blogs, Youtube videos etc. A link to LinkedIn or Twitter would be great too!
Compared to a Word CV the aesthetic potential of a PowerBI CV is much higher - show off your design skills, but keep it simple and robust - you don’t want a prospective employer to find a broken link or bookmark!
*You would need a business email to get a free PBI but you can register a email domain pretty cheaply.
One final thing to consider is how to share your masterpiece - obviously jobseekers tend not to have pro licenses and sharing to potential employers workspaces would be difficult anyway.
However PowerBI allows you to have a free account from which you can publish a PowerBI report (to your own workspace) to the web and get an embed code you can to embed it in your blog (if you have one) or you can share a link with prospective employers. This is a much better user experience than just sending a PBIX over, as users will see it in read mode as opposed to the more developer-y experience of the desktop. Do bear in mind though anything you publish to web is freely available to anyone, so make sure not to include any information you wouldn’t want to share - my phone number is not on that CV!!
I hope if you are currently between roles, or even just searching for a new one, this post will help or inspire you to create your own PowerBI CV! If you do please share it with me - I’d love to see what you come up with!
