You’re having brunch with a friend. She looks at you with excitement and tells you about the fantastic job ad she recently seen. She tells you how perfect you would be for that job and that you HAVE to apply! She takes up her cellphone and shows you the ad. She’s right. This job is perfect, it sounds amazing. The more you read about it the more interested you get and the excitement rices. But then it suddenly stops. The happiness and joy drops, and another feeling takes over. Hesitation, I’m good enough for this, I can’t do all of what is asked for in the ad.
Remember, all of the requirements that’s been listed in the job ad, that “you don’t have”, is taking away the opportunity to get your dream job!
Never accept the requirements as a truth, see it for what it is; A group of people or a persons thoughts of what they think they need. So see it more as their wish-list and you work from there. Example:
- 5 years of experience in leadership. (Experience does not prove neither commitment, competence or result).
- You should be flexible, proactive and communicative (like most people really).
- You should be able to handle the xx-system. (Everyone can learn a new system, I mean, we live the 2000 where almost everything is digitized)
Let me also just put it out in words, in case you’re thinking it, of course certain jobs actually do require some kind of education (like nursing jobs). This is more for you to see an available job ad in a different way or help you to write an unresistable resume that will get you that interview!
This brings us on to the next headline; personal letter.
How hunest should you be.. I mean, never lie, of cours. But in different ways you can express and also leave out unnecessary fact, like:
I have through my experiences at X company operated a number of successfully projects, and where my ability to organize and delegate contributed to the team always finishing of the projects in time and without any missunderstandings.
Okey, so you didn’t work at a really big company, and the project might have been little in comparison and the “team” was you plus two. The point is to describe what you have done before, what experience you have, and why you were good at it and what kind of result it got.
Lift the positive, sell yourself! When reading your new written resume before sending it out for job applications, ask yourself if you would hire yourself. If the answer is yes, click send!
Go get that dream job of yours!
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