Improving Your CV and Covering Letter For Graduate Jobs
In the UK, the Graduate Jobs market is
always one of the most competitive sectors of the economy. In times
of high unemployment, or even recession, the competition is likely to
be even more brisk.
The serious candidate in this Graduate Jobs
arena therefore needs to be thoroughly professional in his/her
approach to the whole applications process. If there is any possible
“edge” to be had by focussing in tightly on the application
process, it needs to be investigated and, if possible, exploited.
That said, there is no reason for anyone to be
pessimistic about securing Graduate Jobs, even in the present
circumstances. Their search could well be successful even sooner
than they think. But the message is that they do need to be
thoroughly professional in their search.
At this stage one would assume that the graduate
job-seeker is well able to find the advertisements for new Graduate
Jobs either in the newspapers, or via recruitment agencies, or
even via the Internet jobs boards. Our concern, therefore, will be to
look at what happens after the advert has been spotted.
The foundational principle that needs to be
followed is to treat every , and
fine tune the CV as necessary to target what you see as your
important points in respect of each one.
The same sort of operation needs to be carried out
in respect of the covering letters that you send with your CV. They
need to be tailored to look attractive to the Graduate Jobs
employer. They are in fact an opportunity for the candidate to “sell”
himself to the employer as the best available candidate for “this”
vacancy.
The very last thing that a candidate wants is for
the recruiter to receive his application and to form the opinion that
it has just been dashed off as part of a Graduate Jobs mass
mailing operation. That would be a first rate way of minimising
his/her chances of even being considered as a serious candidate.
Follow this advice … and maximise your chances
of getting to the interviews for those Graduate Jobs.
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