| Does it ever feel like, even though you send your | | | | By only specifying the relevant skills set, qualifications |
| glowing CV to recruiters and employers by the | | | | and experience in your tailored CV, this will not only |
| dozen, with the expectation of getting a response | | | | help in getting it noticed but it will also show the |
| but nothing ever happens? | | | | recruitment agent that you are particularly interested |
| You have detailed all of your work experience and | | | | in their vacancy. If you show that you have spent |
| skills, attached certificates and reference letters to | | | | time preparing your application, exerted effort and |
| accompany your application and still not a hint of | | | | care to target and customise your job application, |
| interest from a recruiter or employer alike. | | | | this will prove that you recognise and understand |
| So what's the problem? Why, after painstakingly | | | | what the employer is looking for in a candidate and |
| creating a nine page application is no one interested in | | | | you've got what they want. |
| at least one of your skills? | | | | RELEVANCY OF SKILLS WILL RANK YOUR RESUME |
| Want to know the answer? It's your CV! It's just not | | | | A key concept of targeting your application employs |
| getting you noticed. | | | | emphasis to be made on the roles and responsibilities |
| Your CV application document is the only means to | | | | listed in your generic CV that are relevant and relate |
| promoting your unique skills to prospecting employers | | | | directly to the advertised post. Omit information that |
| and should be viewed as a personal brochure about | | | | does not specifically correlate to listed requirements |
| your skill and accomplishments. When a resume is too | | | | in the job ad, as this will waste limited space and |
| long or details work history that is irrelevant to the | | | | make it that much more difficult for a Recruiter to |
| position you are applying to, no Recruiter will pay | | | | identify the relevancy of your work history. |
| attention to it. Recruiters are bombarded with | | | | IDENTIFY TRANSFERRABLE SKILLS |
| candidates work history for each job vacancy that | | | | Transferrable skills are important to detail, as these |
| they advertise. | | | | skills are unique to you personally and may be utilised |
| In order for Recruiters to get through the bulk of | | | | equally from one job to another job. Tranferrable |
| applications received, they scan through the details, | | | | skills may be used in any role regardless of the job |
| noting keywords, skills and specific work experience | | | | funtion or the industry, which is why it is vital to |
| that match the details of the job ad. | | | | document such skills. To illustrate such skills; the ability |
| If you have sent through a chronological curriculum | | | | to multitask, attention to detail, energetic, crisis |
| vitae, describing every position you have ever | | | | management, ability to integrate into a team, |
| worked in, because they lack capacity and time, | | | | motivate others and so on. |
| Recruiters will be reluctant to wade through each of | | | | USE THE JOB AD TO TAILOR YOUR CURRICULUM |
| these looking to match your skills to an employer's | | | | VITAE |
| requirements. Instead they will toss your resume' to | | | | The Recruiter will use a specific language style and |
| the side and scan through applications that are | | | | words in the job advert itself and these are the |
| concise, to the point and relevant to requirements of | | | | words that should appear in your customised |
| the role. | | | | curriculum vitae which you will send as your job |
| This is why it is recommended that in order to get | | | | application. Mirror the Recruiters' language and choice |
| yourself noticed, you need to concentrate on getting | | | | of words in your modified job application in order for |
| your CV to talk directly to the Recruiter and in a | | | | specific skills to be highlighted in the language the |
| language they understand. By adapting this, each time | | | | recruiter speaks. By using too advanced synonyms or |
| you apply to a unique job vacancy, this will assist in | | | | paraphrasing, may result in waffle and a "slow to |
| helping you to talk to the Recruiter in a language | | | | read" document. |
| they understand, telling them exactly what they | | | | RELEVANCY OF THE TITLE |
| want to hear. | | | | It is just as important to modify your unique CV title |
| Follow these guidelines to assist you in customising | | | | as it is to edit the skills and responsibilities listed in the |
| your applications so that it gets noticed. | | | | body. If the title is simply your name and a date, |
| BEGIN WITH YOUR BASE CV | | | | how does this help to sell you at a glance? It doesn't! |
| Start by preparing and all encompassing curriculum | | | | Give your tailored CV a unique and customised title |
| vitae to base each customised application from. While | | | | relevant to the position and try to include no more |
| this is fine to advertise generically, this should not be | | | | than two credentials or required skills that you |
| used for all job applications but rather made available | | | | already have. |
| for head hunters. | | | | INCLUDE YOUR CURRENT CAREER OBJECTIVE |
| READ THE JOB AD CAREFULLY | | | | Include a brief but targeted career objective at the |
| Take special care when looking at the advertised | | | | end of your curriculum vitae that directly relates to |
| vacancy and ensure that you are absolutely sure that | | | | the position you are applying for, for example; my |
| you are matching relevant ability to those skills and | | | | current career objective is to become the Online |
| experience detailed as being requirements of the | | | | Content Manager at Company X. |
| Recruiter. If and when possible, give the agent a call | | | | This will illustrate once again, how well you are suited |
| to find out further information regarding the job and | | | | to the role as well as the effort and care you have |
| the roles and responsibilities it entails. | | | | taken in identifying relevant information that pertains |
| BREAK YOUR BASE DOCUMENT INTO SECTIONS | | | | to the role you are interested in. |
| OF RELEVANCY | | | | |