China 2.0 Tour VisualCV winner announced!

As you may know, The China Business Network partnered with Mashable and VisualCV to create an opportunity to come on the China 2.0 Tour to blog for Mashable, with all expenses paid by VisualCV.

Melissa Sconyers was just announced as the winner of the contest!  She will be joining the China 2.0 Tour and blog for Mashable!  The tour is led/organized by The China Business Network, with heavy support from George Godula and Markus Gruber of Web2Asia, and some help from blog CN Reviews as well. (an earlier version of this post at CN Reviews)

Melissa’s winning VisualCV

Here’s Melissa’s profile on VisualCV: http://www.visualcv.com/msconyers

UPDATE: Follow Melissa aka girk on Twitter or on her blog.

Pierce Resler, Director of Marketing of VisualCV, had this to say about the contest:

We were impressed by all the contest entrants…However, Melissa’s VisualCV put her in front of the pack. Using several of the features of VisualCV.com, Melissa depicted her experience, passion and talents in a multimedia and visually compelling format allowing all of the judges to understand how she is a perfect addition to the China 2.0 Tour.  The ability to include text to outline your experiences and expertise alongside of examples, supporting documents and links help make a VisualCV powerful. Melissa tapped this to build a VisualCV that taught us about her and sold us on selecting her as the winner. Congratulations, Melissa!

Pierce thought that the contest was a great example of how VisualCV totally pwns the old school paper resume.  And don’t think converting your resume into a PDF makes you any better.  In these challenging economic times, you need to stand out and express your strengths more powerfully.  VisualCV helps you do that.  That’s why The China Business Network has partnered with VisualCV to help China professionals and service providers promote themselves and connect to client oppportunities.

Here’s what else Pierce told us you can do with a VisualCV:

It’s basic purpose is to replace the traditional resume.  Allowing professionals to include work samples, references, images, video and more within their VisualCV gives them an opportunity to fully present their professional qualifications and stand out in the crowd. Additionally, a VisualCV can serve as a resume, online professional profile, business development tool, mini website, speaker’s bio, or any use you can think of.

VisualCV is partnered with The China Business Network and was introduced by Guy Kawasaki.  Guy Kawasaki has many other ideas how to use VisualCV.

Melissa higlighted her photojournalistic skills on her VisualCV.  She was a photojournalist for That’s Beijing (now called The Beijinger). Her Flickr photostream was incredibly interesting and its obvious that she is already very well traveled in China.

Here’s a sample from her China Favorites album:

Congratulations Melissa!

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