CV - Job interview

Why do we have to know them? Searching for a position is selling your workforce. All sales mean satisfying demands, the consumer’s supposed or real needs. You have to know these to be able to satisfy them. Knowing them helps us with the presentation of information.

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Problems and solutions

You want to get a job not in the field you are qualified for.

Emphasize your work experience and the results you have achieved until now in your work.
Emphasize those moments of your qualification (for example those subjects), that are related to the desired position you want to apply for.
Express your willingness (or plans) to study and develop yourself in the new area.

Express your intention to work on the given area and explain why you have selected this area.

The majority of job seekers already know that questions that may appear during job interviews hardly ever occur in our everyday talks. “What is his most serious mistake, where would he like to be in five years’ time?” There are hardly any inexperienced candidates who would be surprised by questions like these. Although, the world turns round even with the experienced job hunter when the leader of the interview asks “what kind of animal would you like to be, and why?”

The most important task of a curriculum vitae from the HR manager’s point of view is to filter unsuitable applicants.

It must contain the staff specification (qualification, experience, possibly language knowledge). If it contains this precisely, unsuitable applicants can be filtered out (it is supposed that 90 per cent of the applicants are not suitable for the essential criteria.)

If it is possible, we should wait until the employer brings up the topic of the payment. If it is too early, starting talking about the money by you is a mistake, because then you seem to be materialistic. It is better if the discussion of salary starts when you have already sold yourself, that is the employer sees you as a desirable person who is worth taking on.

If the employer offers very little, let him know immediately. However, you can count on the fact that you have to make a statement.

An experienced job hunter knows well that he has to enclose his motivational letter in the envelope beside the curriculum vitae. But where should he put his letter, if he sends the documents electronically? What does the job seeker have to keep in mind if he would like to get a real position by sending his virtual letter?