The Statistics:

2009-02-11T05:27:00.000-08:00

The statistics of the job search process are brutal. Most applicants learn form their mistakes, because getting to grips with the HR processes is too complex. But simple statistics can tell you much. In an average profile of applications to a typical job advert, whether that be via newsprint or the internet, the answers are:

20% of applicants are rejected because they don’t include a Cover Letter

20% are rejected because they don’t have the basic skills required

20% are rejected because of errors in their application – mostly spelling, also grammar

That last one is just a crazy statistic, and its one I always question when most good word processing programs include a spelling and grammar checker. But every month, my companies own statistics tell the same story!

CV Help

2009-02-10T07:40:00.000-08:00

As a professional recruiter and owner of a Professional CV writing business, I regularly come across people all the time who wish they had asked or sought CV Help with their CV/resume before they submitted it to all those important jobs.

I hear many hard luck stories about how they knew the job was theirs, and all they had to do was mosey on down the process by submitting an application eMail and a polished up CV/resume they had written when they last needed a job. Now they can’t understand why they got rejected, and the other guy/external candidate is sitting in their office, while they contemplate a pink slip/P45 in the current economic climate.

As any recruiter or CV/resume writer will know from experience, simply they didn’t understand three elements:

The statistics of job application

The fact any application is a test, and hence the need for detail

Or the numerous FREE resources available to them to get it right first time, rather than learn from their rejection letters

So, before you commit the same mistake, how about I give you free CV Help?