Preparing the Perfect Job Application: Application Forms and Letters Made Easy - Softcover

Corfield, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0749450223 ISBN 13: 9780749450229

Publisher: Kogan page, 2007

Synopsis

<p>These days if you're looking for a job, you are more and more likely to come face to face with an application form - many of them now online. Application forms are designed to filter out unsuitable applicants and to ensure candidates for interview can be assessed objectively. So how do you make sure that you pitch yourself properly and ensure your job application is more successful than those of others in the candidate pool? This book holds the answer.</p><p>Preparing the Perfect Job Application is written for today's candidate, seeking success in an ever-competitive and more unforgiving jobs market. The book brims with focused, pertinent and insightful advice designed to help you highlight your real talents and demonstrate how they would be useful to your prospective employer.</p><p>Written by a former President of the National Institute of Career Guidance, Preparing the Perfect Job Application shows you what to do, what to avoid doing, and reveals how to give your message the best chance of landing an interview.</p>

About this title

About the Author

<p><b>Rebecca Corfield</b> is a writer and expert on career development, management and presentation. A former President of the Institute of Career Guidance, she is in demand as a coach and trainer. Rebecca is also the author of the best-selling titles, <i><b>Successful Interview Skills</b></i>, <i><b>Preparing the Perfect CV</b></i>, <i><b>Preparing the Perfect Job Application</b></i> (all published by Kogan Page).</p><p>For more information visit her website: www.rebeccatee.com</p>

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1. The Process of Applying for Jobs; 2. What are Employers Looking For?; 3. What to Put in Your Application; 4. Presentation; 5. Guidelines and Examples; 6. Letters of Application; 7. How to Get That Job!; 8. Using the Internet; Other sources of help.

Edition details

• Publisher: Kogan page
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0749450223
• ISBN 13: 9780749450229
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 4
• Number of pages: 144