Duplicate your efforts

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In This Issue:
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* Today's daily dose: Duplicate your efforts
* Motivate Me to find work: Failure to customize your applications can mean failing to get the job you want
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Today's daily dose: 4th August 2010
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Goals can be achieved by the simple activity of duplicating "one's" efforts.

Say you set yourself a goal for today that said, today I am going to:
- Smoke one less cigarette than yesterday
- Walk for 5 minutes more
- Call one more business client
- Spend 5 more minutes working on my assignment / business proposals than I did yesterday
- Eat one more piece of fruit / veg and one piece less of processed *stuff*
- Drink one more glass of water and one less glass of beer
- Go to bed half an hour early so I can get up tomorrow half an hour earlier to work on my ....
- Save $1 or the money I would spend on a cup of coffee / lunch by taking my own you would reach my savings goal by ....

If you repeated those efforts tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and so on, how fast are you going to achieve your goals?

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Motivate Me to Find Work: Failure to customize means failing to get the job you want
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In our Motivate Me to find work section we look at -

Not getting the jobs you think you can do standing on your head? There might be a few Issues and Problems to sort out.

and that includes - Failure to customize your application

Your CV / Resume is not a once size fits all document, you should have a master document and you should then customize different versions for the different types of position you are applying for.

No, this is not about fudging the truth, rather ensuring you have the correct mix of keywords and key phrases in your document(s).

If a prospective employer asks applicants to have experience in a particular type of software, then they want to see that information in your CV or Resume and your Job Application (Covering Letters, Forms and Statements Addressing the Selection Criteria). They want you to state that you are familiar with it, how much experience you have with it, where you used it and how long ago.

Employers don’t like to guess.

Did you know that some employers use software to check documents for keyword density for a designed set of parameters? Well believe it or not they do and applications without the correct density will be rejected.

Can you afford to be rejected because of a lack of basic information such as this?

Why do organizations use software to do the initial weeding of applicants? In a tight labor market, where there are hundreds of applicants for each job it can be a very time consuming and labor intensive job to go through each application individually, so they get the computer to do the initial work for them. If you have ever wondered why you are specifically asked to submit your application online – well now you know.

How do you know what the designated parameters are?

Read the advertisement, the job application package and any other information you are given or sent very carefully. Go through the information with a notebook and pen and / or a highlighter pen. Write down or highlight the re-occurring words or phrases. You should pay particular attention to “Essential” and “Desirable” Selection Criteria. Applicants are usually selected to attend an interview if they are deemed to have met ALL of the “Essential” Selection Criteria and most (if not all) of the “Desirable” criteria as well.

Employers also don’t like to train if they can hire something that already has the right mix of skills and abilities they need.

Does your application prove that or not?

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