Be familiar with the recommendation offered

1. Preparation

It is to prepare carefully for a job application. You need to think about:

- Your own experience, interests, skills and personal qualities;

- The job and organization advertising it.

The key to effective job application is thorough preparation. You need to think and research - yourself and the job.

Start researching yourself thinking about the following areas: experience, interests, skills, personal qualities.

Experience:

Your notes on your experience should certainly include:

- Education

- Any professional training

- Periods of employment (include both part-time job and full-time one)

- Periods in which focused on a particular activity (for example, periods of foreign travels)

- Any voluntary work you have done.

Interests

Things you do in your spare time, when you are not working. They are one of the ways in which your personality can be defined. They also might indicate skills you have which are not currently used at work.

Skills

Make sure to include not only skills related to your trade or profession but also personal ones which may be relevant to a job application, for example:

Organizing events training staff interviewing
Chairing meetings making presentations supervising
Trouble-shooting meeting the public  

Personal qualities

Here are some qualities.

Accurate adaptable careful
Can work under pressure cooperative competent
Dedicated energetic good communicator
Good sense of humor lively  
Flexible friendly extrovert
Independent worker organized positive
Loyal practical self-motivated
Thoughtful sensitive reliable
Self-confident hard-working organized
Introvert committed logical

The CV

The Oxford English Dictionary defines a curriculum vitae or CV as a brief account of one’s life and career as it required in an application for employment.

Traditionally the CV is a bald recital of basic information.

1. Full name

2. Address and telephone number

3. Age, date and place of birth

4. Nationality

5. Marital status

6. Number of children

7. Dates and places of primary, secondary and higher education

8. Educational qualifications (public examinations taken and grades /degrees achieved).

9. Employment record, including details of each period of employment : company/organization, position held, dates

10. More detailed information about current position held (often including salary)

11. Interests

12. Names of two people who will provide references (often one as character reference and one as a professional/work reference).

Please note: there are many different ways to prepare a CV, depending on the nationality of the company that you are applying to. In some countries or fields the traditional chronological development through education and experience is in favour of setting out personal skills acquired in order to entice prospective employers. There is a current trend in using recruitment consultants, who initiate employees to e-mail CVs direct or advertise themselves on the Internet.

Please study the CV given below and practice to write your own CV as a homework assignment. You can also prepare some CVs in your class group together.

Personal Details

Michael Brown

76, Lower Green Road, Newbery. Berks, RG23 SRT

01892 293479 E-mail: michael. brown @caledonia. net

23d February 1971

British

Divorced

Children (one child, ten years old)

Education

1993-1994 London Chamber of Commerce and Industry

Diploma in Public Relations

1989-1992 University of London

BA (Honours) in Public Relations

1982-1989 Gondersfield High School

German (A), English (B), History (B), Geography(C)

Maths (C)

1976-1982 Primary School, Huyton

Professional Experience

2005 – present Sales Manager: Brown-Petlow, Solihull

Responsible for department of 12 and sales team of

24 representatives

1997-2005 Assistant Sales Manager, Alders & Green, Leicester

1992-1997 Graduate trainee with Myersons-Chemco Ltd.

Skills

IT Office 2000 and Windows NT, Excel, Internet,

Powerpoint

Languages Good standard of German, basic knowledge of

French

Additional Driving license (car), swimming instructor,

Member Solihull Round Table

Interests (Activities) Golf, scuba diving

References Mrs. Mary Hayling Mr. Peter Smithson

23 Orchard Close The Meadows

Graystoke Peterlee

Essex Reading

CM23 8YH RG12 8EV

(phone: 01234 567890) (phone: 04321 098765)

You may prepare your CV in a functional layout. This kind of CV is organized by skills and qualities and the functions you could use as headings might be :

- Presenting the product range;

- Customer care;

- Information technology

- A good sales record in all positions

Under each one you can provide further details of specific experience. You can focus on your strengths to make your CV both a “selling document” and a proof that you can write good English.

One more CV example

Task:Read the CV below and complete it with these headings.

a. Education and training.

b. Main activities and responsibilities.

c. Organizational skills.

d. Personal information.

e. Personal skills.

f. Position held.

g. Subject/occupational skills covered.

h. Technical skills.

i. Title of qualification awarded.

j. Work experience.

Curriculum Vitae (1)____________________ First nave/Surname Sukvinder Dhal Address 145 New Ferry Road, Queens Bridge, Durham, UK Telephone + (44) 1982 12459 E-mail [email protected] (2)_____________________ Dates 2011 - present (3)_____________________ IT Support Technician (4)_____________________ Provide support to customers of my company’s networking products, both wireless and wired Diagnose problems and suggest solutions. Name and address of employer Agoda Digital Ltd., Garside Industrial Estate, Sunderland, UK (5) _____________________ Dates 2009-2011 (6)____________________ BTEC National Diploma for IT Practitioners (System Support). (7)_____________________ IT technical support, customer service, networking (wireless and wired), hardware installation. Name and type of organization Conglefield Colledge, Cheshire, UK providing education and training Personal skills and competences Mother tongue(s) Hindi (8)______________________ I am a good team player at work. I work well with people from many different backgrounds People find me friendly and easy to work with and I understand other people easily. I enjoy helping customers. (9) _____________________ I often prepare my team’s schedules. When problems happen, I often make useful suggestions; I have good problem-solving skills. I am very organized; this helps me to work efficiently. I enjoy taking responsibly. (10) ____________________ Setting up both wired and wireless networks, including WI-FI. Diagnosing problems in networks. Server administration of both Linux and Windows operating systems

2. The letter of application

The letter of application can be as important as the CV as it often provides the first direct contact between a candidate and an employer and if this letter is not written well it may make a poor impression. So, the CV accompanying letter is an important selling tool and needs careful thought. It also has a number of purposes:

- It allows you to sell yourself by pointing out key features of your CV:

how your skills and experience fit you for this particular position;

- It gives you the opportunity to include material that is not in CV, especially personal qualities;

- It shows your perspective employer that you know how to write a letter.

The letter of application should follow the general guidelines for all business letters that means it should have an introduction, a body, and a conclusion.

In the introduction part you should detail the job you are applying for and the circumstances that have led to this (for example, an advertisement, or the recommendation of an agency).

The body of the letter provides you with an opportunity to present yourself to the employer:

- Tell the reader about your present job and why you are looking to move on;

- Explain why you are suitable for this job;

- Emphasize the skills you have which make you particularly suitable for the job;

- List briefly the personal qualities you would bring to it;

- Answer any specific questions posed by the advert or job details.

It is important not to write too much, however. Two, or at most three, short punchy paragraphs are much more effective than two sides of rambling prose.

The conclusion should round the letter off, leaving the reader with a positive image/ It should sum up briefly the selling points made in the body of the letter, mention any items (including the CV) you are inclosing, and express willingness to provide any further information that the reader may want.

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