Your CV contains hidden messages about you
February 4th, 2009
A well written and presented CV makes all the difference between being selected for an Interview and getting a letter of rejection. All too often people overlook this and just copy and paste bits onto their CV, rush the covering letter and send it off. How many times have you been guilty of this – all because you left the application until the last possible moment? Procrastination is the worst enemy of any Job Seeker. That is why Job Seekers get fewer invitations to an interview than Job Hunters.
A Job Hunter will always complete an application form, tailor a CV or write a covering letter at the earliest opportunity and then sit on it for a day or two. After this period of time, they will pick them up and proof-read them to ensure they are just right for the prospective employer.
So why leave it for a couple of days? Well, it is all down to how your brain works. If you are trying hard to solve a problem, your brain works on it even during your sleep. Consequently, you have put together your job applications and ‘incubated’
In the long term you will be spending far less time preparing job applications and you’ll also receive far better responses than you would if you use the Job Seeker’s approach. Poorly constructed job applications will be picked up by the prospective employer and directed to the waste paper basket quicker than you could blink. This is because the hidden messages that they contain show that you do not check over your work, rush jobs too quickly and do the bare minimum expected of you. You see, these are the qualities that employers cannot afford to have in their company.
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