Overview

This project aims at showcasing a more personal and relatable professional journey. It was important to show the evolution from my teaching to training careers. Besides, having been a recruiter, I understand some questions that one’s resume may raise, so this piece tries to tackle some of them.

The challenge

Understanding the nuances of one’s career can be hard. That challenge drew the sketch of this project. I wanted to display my vocation for promoting learning experiences from the moment I was an ESL teacher in Brazil at 16 to my transition to training and development there and here in the US.

It was also a great opportunity to showcase some of my volunteer work and tangible references to companies and people I worked with as well as the educational institutes I was lucky to attend. Adding photos to illustrate this journey helped humanize me, increasing relatability.
Anticipating some interviewer questions, I thought it was valuable to include explanations for a couple of gaps in my working history, including the one caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Technically, it was a chance to demonstrate my Storyline proficiency and my skills in narration and audio manipulation.

To dribble biases, I wanted to include two things. First, my ability to speak fluent English, and that’s why I narrate this piece. Secondly, but most important is disclosing the fact that I have a green card. If you are in HR, you know that according to federal law recruiters can only ask for working documents after the candidate is offered the job, otherwise it can be construed as discrimination by origin. However, that best practice does not happen as often as you would think. Especially if the staffing agency is based outside the US, where accountability is faint.