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create a personal website to address the following:
● “About me” page which tells readers about you as a person, your background and skills. This page should have a strong emphasis on your core skills set and how you advertise these.
● “My aspirations” page which tells readers what you want to be doing in the future and why they should contact you if they need what you are offering – this page is, in effect, your main
marketing page – what is it about yourself that you are ‘offering’ others? You should place an important emphasis on your attitude towards your career interest here.
● “Portfolio of work” page which demonstrates some of your UG/PG and past employment including internship related projects and anything else which could be relevant to support your personal brand value.
● “Downloadable CV” page should allow the reader the option of viewing your CV and also downloading it as a pdf
● “Contact me” page which provides the range of ways you would like people to be able to contact you. Think about other ways you may wish others to be able to contact you

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This is an example post, originally published as part of Blogging University. Enroll in one of our ten programs, and start your blog right.

You’re going to publish a post today. Don’t worry about how your blog looks. Don’t worry if you haven’t given it a name yet, or you’re feeling overwhelmed. Just click the “New Post” button, and tell us why you’re here.

Why do this?

• Because it gives new readers context. What are you about? Why should they read your blog?
• Because it will help you focus you own ideas about your blog and what you’d like to do with it.

The post can be short or long, a personal intro to your life or a bloggy mission statement, a manifesto for the future or a simple outline of your the types of things you hope to publish.

To help you get started, here are a few questions:

• Why are you blogging publicly, rather than keeping a personal journal?
• What topics do you think you’ll write about?
• Who would you love to connect with via your blog?
• If you blog successfully throughout the next year, what would you hope to have accomplished?

You’re not locked into any of this; one of the wonderful things about blogs is how they constantly evolve as we learn, grow, and interact with one another — but it’s good to know where and why you started, and articulating your goals may just give you a few other post ideas.

Can’t think how to get started? Just write the first thing that pops into your head. Anne Lamott, author of a book on writing we love, says that you need to give yourself permission to write a “crappy first draft”. Anne makes a great point — just start writing, and worry about editing it later.

When you’re ready to publish, give your post three to five tags that describe your blog’s focus — writing, photography, fiction, parenting, food, cars, movies, sports, whatever. These tags will help others who care about your topics find you in the Reader. Make sure one of the tags is “zerotohero,” so other new bloggers can find you, too.