Achieving the job of your dreams can be an exhausting task. In fact, achieving any job related to your industry of interest can often be a tiresome and seemingly-impossible task at first. If you want the job you need experience, but if you need experience, you need somebody to take a chance and offer you a job position. Of course, work experience helps, but sometimes you need help with getting any sort of role in the first place.
So, how can you better your chances of achieving the role you desperately seek?
Be the best potential employee for the position. This might sound obvious, and you are most likely already telling yourself, “Well, of course I’m the perfect person for the position! That’s why I’m applying for it.” Still, the employer doesn’t know you from any other person on any other CV, which is essentially just a wall of text to them, and that’s exactly why it’s your job to make an impression.
Think about things from the employer’s perspective, rather than simply your own. They’re the one looking to hire somebody, so focus on showcasing the abilities and the knowledge that they’ll be looking for, rather than simply showing how badly you want the job. Every other person applying for the position wants the job just as badly. You have to show the interviewer what you’re going to offer them if you’re hired above anyone else.
Ensure your CV is as good as it can be. This is something that so many people neglect, because it’s perhaps such a boring process. Writing a CV can seem insignificant beyond simply listing work experience, qualifications and personal details, but this is where so many job seekers fail to make an impression. As mentioned, the employer doesn’t know you yet, so all they have to go by, when deciding who to shortlist for interviews or the shot at a job position, is the CV application which you’ve submitted to them.
If you want to truly wow an employer, you have to show them a little of your personality, charisma, and unique selling point. You have to show them a little of the initiative they’d want from you within the position for which you’re applying; they want people who can think outside the box. The most important thing that many don’t realize, and perhaps you’re in the same boat, is that, if you’re struggling, you don’t have to. You could always get your CV written for you by professionals, if you’re truly stumped as to ways in which you could improve it.
Standing out from the crowd is difficult, but necessary, because you’re competing against dozens of almost-identical candidates. At least, that’s how it seems to an employer browsing through endless CVs. Of course, it might be quite different when they meet you in person, so that’s what you have to show through your CV. Perhaps getting expert help and advice from a writer trained in that area could be exactly what you need to truly shine and get the job you seek.
Remember, if you’re the right fit for your dream career, then a future employer will understand that when they meet you, but you have to get past that initial hurdle in order to get that chance.
Mia Guerra
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