What you should do when applying for a job

-Write an application to specifically ask for each position. Not one for all positions.

 

 -Avoid sending a stereotype CV as response to adverts. Rather, respond to an advert by 

writing an application to show that you are qualified for the position and that you are the guy the 

position is waiting for.

 

-Write your application as a mail, not as an attachment to a mail if you are applying via the 

Internet.

 

-Avoid attaching your CV as email attachment with the note ‘attached herewith’ ‘my CV 

attached’, ‘the attached for consideration’, ‘see the attached’. Point is: such applications do not 

deserve to be read let alone considered.

 

-Be brief but offer essential details starting with the current relevant positions you held in recent 

times.

 

-Avoid gaps that cannot be explained or explain it right away.

 

-Start from now and work backwards in cataloguing your attainments.

 

-Recent achievements carry more value than ancient ones in most cases

 

-Separate academic courses from professional training.

 

-Describe things rather than just list them

 

-Say what your company does, even if it is sounds too obvious.

 

-The number of people you are responsible for matters, that’s what makes you a manager.

 

-Read what you have written over and over again and correct it along.

 

-Write a CV for a particular vacancy, do not just drop standard CV at everybody

 

-Do not employ your relative to send your application by email on your behalf

 

-Use simple and popular email software [e.g. Outlook Express] rather than the ‘way-out’ one 

which your target reviewer may not have.