Help Writing Job Applications
using a CV

Using the CV to write your Job Application

The Career Statement:  Job applications are mostly used by "Equal Opportunity" employers, agencies and recruiters to source information about candidates' qualifications and experience etc. They will screen out applicants based on various factors in the application process. A lot of thought and research needs to be undertaken into answering those open questions on you job applications. You can use a personal profile of career statement from your CV to help to start communicating your experience and value in the job market.

Achievements
WHAT HAVE YOU DONE ?
* to increase your company profits / revenues
* to demonstrate you are a high performer
* to satisfy your customer / clients
* to improve quality or service to reduce costs
* to increase quality
* that you are proud of
* to increase efficiency

HAVE YOU ?
* trained/supervised others
* received awards/decorations
* instituted new procedures
* reduced inventory levels
* identified problems
* installed new systems
* increased safety
* decreased scrap
* reduced absenteeism
 
ASK YOURSELF QUESTIONS SUCH AS:
* What were the results?
* What did this mean?
* What could the company do now?
* So what?
* For what?
* By how much?
* How many?
* Which ones?
* Why were you chosen?

Employers are far more interested in what you can do for them, than in what skills or abilities you have as an individual. The interviewer will try to establish what  benefits you might bring to the organisation and where those benefits outweigh those of other candidates.

Your CV should be presented as a benefits package to the your prospective employer, a useful tip before the interview is to practice putting together useful phrases starting with:-

* Which means that
* Which resulted in
* So that
* The benefit was
* We gained because
* The advantage was

TO EMPHASISE YOUR ACHIEVEMENTS, STRENGTHS, SUCCESSES
QUANTIFY FACTS WHERE YOU CAN: USE POSITIVE ACTION VERBS
WHERE YOU CAN.

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Positive Action Verbs

Accelerated	Decreased	Formulated	Obtained	Replaced
Achieved	Defined	Fulfilled	Operated	Reported
Acquired	Demonstrated	Generated	Optimized	Represented
Adapted	Designed	Guided	Organised	Researched
Addressed	Developed	Handled	Originated	Revamped
Administered	Directed	Identified	Participated	Revised
Advised	Documented	Implemented	Performed	Saved
Affected	Edited	Improved	Persuaded	Selected
Analysed	Eliminated	Improvised	Pioneered	Served
Appraised	Employed	Increased	Planned	Settled
Approved	Enforced	Incurred	Prepared	Simplified
Arranged	Engineered	Initiated	Presented	Sold
Assembled	Enhanced	Inspired	Processed	Solved
Assessed	Enlarged	Instituted	Procured	Standardized
Assumed	Ensured	Instructed	Produced	Started
Audited	Established	Interpreted	Programmed	Strengthened
Broadened	Estimated	Interviewed	Proposed	Studied
Budgeted	Evaluated	Introduced	Proved	Summarized
Built	Exceeded	Investigated	Provided	Supervised
Coordinated	Executed	Launched	Published	Supplied
Changed	Exercised	Led	Purchased	Supported
Collaborated	Exhibited	Located	Recommended	Surpassed
Communicated	Expanded	Maintained	Recorded	Surveyed
Conceived	Expedited	Managed	Recruited	Systemised
Concluded	Experienced	Marketed	Redesigned	Terminated
Constructed	Exposed	Maximized	Reduced	Tested
Contributed	Extracted	Minimized	Refined	Trained
Controlled	Facilitated	Motivated	Regulated	Upgraded
Converted	Forecasted	Negotiated	Repaired	Wrote