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ITT: I suck at job hunting, do you?
Barmymoo:
I've always found that it is a very delicate balancing act between spelling out how your experience directly applies and patronising your interviewer. It's best to assume that they are going to read your CV for about ten seconds at the most, so you have to make it easy for them to figure out what being president of baseball club actually did for your management skills, or whatever.
Don't get despondent, Jimmy! Entry-level jobs can be harder to get, purely because there aren't many qualification requirements so it's basically a lottery!
jhocking:
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 31 Jul 2010, 12:26 ---It's best to assume that they are going to read your CV for about ten seconds at the most,
--- End quote ---
Seriously this is not an exaggeration. At many of the interviews I've had over the years, the first time the interviewer has seen my resume is AFTER they've sat down across from me at the interview table. They are literally skimming it while I answer their first question.
The first time that happened to me it was a little demoralizing, but I got used to it quickly and now I'm actually surprised when they know more about me than what I mentioned in my cover letter (eg. they browsed through my entire portfolio.)
pwhodges:
This is why dealing transparently with the person spec is so important - the first thing that happens to applications is that a secretary scans them and simply discards all that do not meet every point; they are not looked at to see if there might be some other reason to consider them, like all-round awesomeness.
A Wet Helmet:
Another interview tomorrow morning. Honestly, it would probably be a giant step backwards in my career --it is certainly less money-- however, it might give me a couple of years of fairly chill work in order to go get an MBA before jumping back into the high stress rat race again.
So... I'll interview and do my best, but I'm not super thrilled about it.
HiFranc:
Helmet, I hope your plans work out.
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