Tuesday, 3 April 2012

Job application vs. Vacancy advertisement

Are you applying for a job, postdoc or grad opportunity? Whatever position you are applying for, it is very important that you should read the vacancy advertisement very carefully.

Most of the job related keywords found that most of the job seekers have a 'ready to paste' cover letter on their hand. Whatever the vacancy requirement, they just copy n paste the very same cover letter to every job application. This is totally wrong and will not help you to stands out from the crowd.

What we suggest is that

  • Read the vacancy advertisement carefully
  • Prepare your cover letter as per the requirement of the vacancy advert
  • Modify (slightly) the CV to suite to the requirement 
If you follow these suggestions, it is certain that your chance to grab a position will increase significantly.

1 comment:

  1. Comparing this two will help a lot of people who are confused on what is the best between those two. For me sending job applications is better because you will have a better chance of getting a job if you will send many applications to number of companies.

    kroger

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