OFW Speak

I was asked by a former classmate of mine in Highschool about the difference between Bio-Data, Resume, and Curriculum Vitae and what should be the one preferably to be submitted for an online job posting.

The difference between the three mentioned above are:

BIO-DATA is more of a person's biological background, and it comes with a pre-made form. It is like a slum book, but way too formal. No crushes and favorite songs of course, just important details about yourself and how the person employing could tell the kind of person you are.

RESUME is a more compacted way of summarizing your skill-set and job qualifications. Though it doesn't have pre-made form, but minding the suggested way of presenting it is very much appreciated. It must be brief, concise, and coherent nicely fitted in 1 to 2 pages max. In a way, it must be brief enough to summarize your strengths, concise enough to sell your self, and coherent enough to persuade you are the best fit for the job.

CURRICULUM VITAE compared to RESUME is quite longer. It is a detailed enumeration of your professional working experience. It is like a bullet form of the things you have done based on your experience.

Now, preferably offshore companies or outsourcers want a quicky when it comes to shortlisting candidates and that's how important knowing the type of self-marketing you are going to device. Resume's then are the best choice for online job search.

Basically, RESUME's for online jobs must be tweaked accordingly. Since talking about online jobs entail that you must be at least a computer literate to be considered for the job. Try to be more creative and techy with your resume. Try online resume presentation, that way you can give the employers an initial impression that you are not only computer literate but also the one who sweat things up.

For some of the readers who have no idea what RescueTime is, it is basically a time management tool that tracks down your computer activity and how long you spend on it.

For example I am watching a movie on my PC while RescueTime is on. It will log that I am using a media player and the amount of time I am using it.

It has become a topic sometime since Rescuetime has been a deal breaker for most Online Workers when their prospective clients require them to use Rescuetime. Some consider it as a breach of privacy, since it also logs your browser's history and how long you spend on that particular page.

Let me tell you what I thought. If a person hires you and pay you to do certain tasks for a specific period of time, that person (your client or boss) has the right to know your activity, especially when you are paid hourly. Isn't it?

If you have no modus operandi going on, you have nothing to hide, right? I personally use rescueTime for myself t track down my productivity for the day.

How about you? What time-management tool do you use? Do you thing using one is violates one's privacy?

It's been a while since the Sotto-Plagiarism issue made a wave not only to the citizens of the Philippines, but also to all netizens especially Filipino bloggers who look-up to him as a senator and a pro-life advocate against RH Bill.

I am a practical person, so by all reasons, I am pro-RH Bill and I believe in responsible parenthood. And that God gave us not only the ability to procreate, but also the intellect to properly control it.

My opinion of Sen. Sotto's plagiarism has nothing to do with my opinion with RH Bill. Stealing is stealing. And plagiarism is a form of stealing.

In my blogs, I take pride in giving the original authors credits and linkbacks. It is imperative that once you base your article or blog from some source, you must give it a credit at least a backlink.

For Mr. Sotto's case, he even refused to apologize and instead he arrogantly say "blogger lang 'yon". Do you think that makes you a better person Mr. Sotto? Do you think it is so wise of you to utter those outrageous words?

What is this person smoking and he thinks his ignorance would turn on his advantage? Damn. And so here I am standing for his resignation.


"in MOVE UP hereby call for the immediate resignation of Senator Sotto. We believe that Sotto should never exempt himself from this by virtue of the position he holds. Furthermore, we believe that his multiple acts of plagiarism and subsequent denial is breach of his office’s mandate to provide honest and credible representation to his constituents.

We deserve better."

That's one small step for (a) man, one giant leap for mankind. ~Neil Armstrong

(CBS News) Neil Armstrong, the Apollo 11 astronaut who became the first human being to set foot on another world, has died. He was 82.

Let us give our sincere condolences to the family of the man who served as our Prometheus ushering the knowledge we had in lunar exploration.