What's Wrong With My Job Application
Samiullah Muhammad
Procurement Specialist | Operational Excellence | Quality Management | Helping Organizations to Become Process Oriented.
Taking your first steps towards a challenging professional journey requires motivation and patience. Some people are fortunate to find opportunities to excel in their careers immediately. However, others need help securing job interviews, especially when the response rate is below average. Changing or creating a new CV is a good idea in such cases.
One thing to keep in mind is your professionalism, which will lead you to critical development.
You don't want to listen to Ghost's stories, so you should not let others believe you are someone you're not. That is why try to build critical skills that you want within your personality and post there in your CV. Your CV is the story of your life, not a document, which is an imaginary word that gives you to those who look at it. Structure it and make it available like a journey of years with achievement as the top priority. Yes, achievements should be your top priority, not some imaginary belief of the business world that will help you.
You are now coming to the Idea of more content development in your CV. Adding critical area experience for a role you will apply for or for a specific role you are applying for. You need to fix that one thing in your mind: every role comes with a new and different responsibility, and you must prepare yourself for such commitment and present yourself like you have all these essential skills, which you can learn online. Yes, there are various platforms Like FutureLearn: Business and Management , DataCamp , and Coursera where you can learn critical skills for FREE, but if you know attentively, you will have an outstanding achievement to showcase in your CV. You must apply for a specific job with attention to detail and have a crucial interest in it. The researcher should give at least a thorough read to your CV. That should be your ultimate goal to secure a Key position.
The longer the search, the longer it gets cold. Stay Focused!!
Most recruiters look for a CV that is a perfect fit while they look for a candidate. Applying for roles utterly different from your previous role needs special skills and details to make them realize that you can be a good fit for their organization, so what you will do is very important. Be clear in mind and have a clear understanding of reality. You will have an excellent and well-suited role if you have an apparent reality. What is the reality? The reality is that you are competing with a lot of critical factors. What are those key factors that are going to play an important role?
To keep things simple, you must understand that you are in a fight. Yes, you are in a battle with all the odds against you to fall you down, and if you excel once in this fight, you must not lose more coming to you in the future. The first fight is essential, and the rest will be history.
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Steps to follow while applying:
You have changed your CV, and now you are all geared up for the next move: applying for the role. If you understand the Applicant Tracking System (ATS), you will excel in every job you apply for. ATS is a software that reads your CV, and if it qualifies to a standard that the recruiter provides, ATS will notify you. If not, you will see your CV with a reply '' Unfortunately''. You don't want these replies, but why are you receiving them? It is because you have bombarded your CV without editing and matching it with the critical skills required for the job. So ATS is a guard, and you can only enter an organization with an appointment, so your profile maintenance is that appointment, and you would want to go with an invitation. Always look for ATS as a gate guard, and if you are applying randomly like most Job seekers, these guards are okay with ignoring your CV and are happy to do so. Look, all I am saying is that you spend some time on what and where you are applying for.
It would help if you asked yourself these questions while applying.
What do I need to polish so ATS won't be bothered?
There are many jobs, but the approach to applying for those jobs is limited. Be the artist of your self-showcase, and you will have the opportunity on your doorstep. Yes, you have all the skills one needs for the job. But most of us need more self-awareness and know how to showcase our talents. Most of us rely on a simple approach, and no one bothers to design and write their life story with their hand.