Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job Application

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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application
By Red Tape Busters
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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application

• The experienced job application writer will
  consider many many issues before and during the
  job application writing process.
• Most job applicants however do not strategically
  plan their approach to applying for a job and
  lots adopt the scatter gun approach shooting
  job applications off to any and every job.
• The smart applicant will not make this fatal
  error and will instead carefully consider each
  prospective job and only apply for the job that
  fits them perfectly and where their skills,
  experience, attitude etc fits the job perfectly.

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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application

• Before applying for any job here are my top 5
  tips that you need to consider before putting pen
  to paper or fingers to the keyboard-
• 1. Carefully and honestly consider your skills
  and abilities
• Most people seriously overestimate their skills
  and abilities. Job applicants need to have
  confidence in their abilities but it is a total
  waste of time to overestimate what you are
  capable of or overplay what experience you have
  had in your past.

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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application

• It should become obvious in an interview if the
  interview panel are skilled at grilling
  applicants that your skills/experience have been
  inflated.
• Worse still, lets say you get through the
  interview and win the job and then it is
  discovered that your skills and experience were
  um. not accurate.
• This would leave a very sour taste in the mouths
  of the interview panel and your credibility might
  well go down the drain.

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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application

• All not conducive to a happy working environment!
  Even worse still what happens if you win the job
  and then the job is too big for you and you fail
  disaster disaster disaster!

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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application

• 2. Carefully consider the job the pay, the
  conditions, the work location, any travel
  required etc etc.
• This is vitally important most people dont
  research the job, ascertain what pay and
  conditions, where they might have to travel to
  for work, will they be required to travel.
• All of these issues are important for job
  satisfaction and how the job will merge with your
  family requirements, financial needs, social life
  etc.

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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application

• A job that impacts adversely on one or more of
  your other lives will surely be a job you will
  come to detest in time.
• 3. Do you have time to apply
• Again a lot of job applicants rush their
  applications.
• So it is important that you consider if you have
  the time to dedicate to crafting a comprehensive
  application that hits the mark.

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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application

• 4. Do you have referees who will sing your
  praises?
• This issue is seriously undervalued when applying
  for jobs.
• Your referees MUST say the sky is green if you
  are claiming in your interview that the sky is
  green.
• Referees MUST validate everything you say and be
  able to eloquently and powerfully support your
  claims, skills and experience.

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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application

• The dithering, reluctant or understated referee
  is to be avoided. You dont want a Donald Trump
  type but you need someone who will passionately
  support everything you say.
• 5. What is my pitch when writing my
  application?
• Before you start crafting your application, you
  need to consider how you are going to approach
  it, what information/documents are required and
  what is your pitch to sell yourself firstly to
  get an interview and then obviously to win the
  job.

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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application

• Time spent on developing your strategy and making
  sure you understand the application process and
  exactly what they expect with your application
  really is time well spent.
• If you ponder on these issues before commencing
  writing your application, at least then you will
  give yourself a fighting chance. The quality job
  application writer will strategies the job
  application writing process and significantly
  enhance their chance of success.

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Five Things to Consider Before Writing Your Job
Application

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• http//www.redtapebusters.com/ should you require
  more
• information about this article or if you require
  specialist
• grant, tender or job application writing
  experience. We can
• assist you to achieve your goals and objectives!

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Application
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