Tailoring Your CV to Suit the Occasion

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If it wasn’t absolutely essential to constantly tweak, refine and tailor your CV, then my day would be spent with hammer and chisel; etching skills, experience and achievements into blocks of granite.

Thankfully, in terms of tiring labour and prohibitive postal costs, this isn’t the case. But why is it necessary to be constantly adding, shifting, re-ordering and generally updating and amending your CV? Why can’t a CV be copied, pasted and used in a Rolling-Thunder-esque job search campaign?

The Perfect Job
First, let me run a scenario past you to see if it sounds familiar. You have seen a great job austria phone number resource advertised online, after reading the job specifications, you conclude “I can do that…that sounds like an awesome job!”

Off goes the CV and you sit back and wait for the phone to ring [or for your inbox to chime], but as time passes without hearing anything, or even worse, you receive a generic email informing you that “…because of the high number of outstanding applicants…yadda yadda…”

What happened? You were perfect for the job!

Retracing Your Steps
Logically, it can’t be the recruiter to blame, they only have the information that you present them with, and although recruiters are pretty good at reading between the lines [worked at ‘company X’, therefore, must have ‘experience Y’], but assumptions, especially in the world of recruitment, can be very costly.

So if you are experiencing the scenario outlined too often, it could be any of these 3 issues.

One: Your CV did not match the job specification adequately.