For an entry-level role, tell me how you’re looking forward to growing and developing and learning as much as you can. I want to know how you actually work, not how a teacher once told you you should work. I am profoundly uninterested in cookie-cutter statements. If the job requires lots of independence, talk about how you are great at taking direction and running with it, and how you have the confidence to follow your own ideas and seek out the insight of others when necessary. If the job means you’ll be part of a big team, talk about how much you love teamwork and how collaborating with people is the best way to solve problems. “I work well in a team or individually” okay cool, you and everyone else. If it’s not interesting to you, it’s probably not interesting to me. If you have a bunch of bullet points, make every one of them count. Tell me what you’re looking for, not just what you think I’m looking for. Tell me what makes you want to get up in the morning and go to work and feel fulfilled. It’s super easy and shows that you give enough of a shit to google something. Does the application pack say who you’ll be reporting to? Can you find their name on the company website? Address your application to them. I want to know what makes you happy in a job, because I want you to be happy within the job I’m advertising. If you worked in a shop, and you’re applying for an office job which involves talking to lots of people, don’t give me a list of stuff you did, write a sentence about how much you enjoyed working in a team to help everyone you interacted with and did your best to make them leave the shop with a smile. I don’t care what the duties in your previous unrelated jobs were unless you can tell me why they’re useful to this job. #WHERE DOES THE RAPPER NOREAGA SHOP PROFESSIONAL#
PDFs are far more professional looking and clean and mean that I can’t make any (unconscious or not) decisions about you based on information about the file. All the meta information, including how long you worked on it, when you created it, times, etc, is right there in a Word doc. Filenames like ‘CV - media’ tell me that you’ve got several CVs you send off depending on the kind of job advertised and that you probably didn’t tailor it for this position. Filenames that don’t include YOUR name are annoying. Even if you apply online, I can see the filename you used for your CV.I won’t be looking at your CV thinking ‘huh, they haven’t included their interests, they must have none’, I’m just looking for what you have included.
playing an instrument or a sport shows dedication and discipline) then I honestly don’t care how you spend your time. Unless you can explain why the stuff you do enriches you as a person and a candidate (e.g. Don’t bother including a list of your interests if all you can think of is ‘socialising with friends’ and ‘listening to music’.If you can’t be bothered to write at least one actual paragraphs about why you want this job, I can’t be bothered to read your CV. ‘You must include a cover letter’ does not mean ‘write a single line about why you want this position’.Here’s some advice from the person who will actually be looking at your CV/resume and cover letter: Right now, I’m sifting through 50+ applications for a new entry-level position.
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