Writing about yourself is a hard thing to do. It’s not so hard in blog-form. In a blog, you can basically share any kind of information you want, i.e. "things to do this week", and general musings about your love for cups of tea. What's great is, no one gives you any kind of score or assessment at the end (unless you count the number of people who ‘like’ you on facebook, or your number of followers. Which I don’t, for self preservation purposes).
Writing about yourself in job-application-form, however, is a whole ‘nother ball-game. Rather than self-deprecating nonsense, job applications are serious businesses. So much so that you probably couldn’t even get away with writing non-words like ‘nother’.
And you probably shouldn’t either.
So you might have guessed that I am the ‘you’ in this situation. Yes, currently I am going through the tedious process applying for jobs in the hope that someone will employ me (please).
The difference between this blog and job applications (other than I shouldn't spend too much time writing about tea, and that non-words are unacceptable) is that I also can’t refer to myself in the second-person (I have no idea if this is the right term).
In any case, I think that referring to myself in second-person is a great idea. Here's why.
Rather than writing “I am probably the best communicator the world has seen”, I could write “Kathryn Kelly is probably the best communicator the world has seen”. Benefits include...
1) it sounds like someone else wrote it, a fan of some kind?
2) it begs the question 'should she come with a promotional poster and/or video-clip?' and
3) it reads like a newspaper headline, i.e. “Kathryn Kelly, The Best Communicator the World Has Seen?”
Perhaps I could also consider writing a song, or a poem to impress potential job-holders (again, job-holders this is not the correct term).
Just know that I started a poem, and then decided that my time would probably be better spend working on job applications.
A door referring to itself in first person.
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