7 Important Tips to Making Your Job Application Stand Out
Recently, I read ‘Why the Cover Letter is Dead‘ – it suggested that no one has time to read these things and that if you want to stand out from the crowd in your application, you need to phone up the recruiting manager and talk to them, then send your CV.
I can’t quite remember who it was who wrote it or what planet they were from, but I was howling in anger! Standing out from the crowd is not the easiest thing but to give people blanket advice to ditch their cover letter is to help them commit job hunter’s suicide.
So how does one stand out from the crowd and get past the gatekeepers? Here’s my top 7 ways:1) Do not ditch the cover letter!
Time and again recruiters complain that applicants send a CV and a note saying ‘Here is my CV!’. Actually, someone who writes a good cover letter fairs more chance of standing out than someone who writes nothing.
However, the cover letter has to say something meaningful – it has to say why you want to work for them, what you like about them and it has to say what you see as their challenges and how you can help address those challenges. Having recently screened a batch of applications, I could have wept at the number of people who threw away the opportunity to convince me that they understood the organisation, its issues and to show me that they could do the role.
Say what the reader wants to hear about, give evidence and include a cover letter!
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