19 common mistakes when applying for jobs 1. Poor CV
How banal ... And this despite the fact that the Internet and other sources you can find lots of suitable (and not) resume templates and recommendations for their preparation. However, uninformative, illiterate and other "nedorezyume" up to 50% of CV, entering the staffing agency! Recruiters shovel hundreds of resumes a day, will confirm.
Tip: take a CV of at least two to three hours. Select the best sample, identify key words, your accomplishments and your advantage over other candidates.
2. Passivity in finding a job
you send your resume to a dozen companies, and sit, waiting for a call? Who needs: you - work or they - are you? Even if you're cool specials, remember that at this place a dozen claimants!
Tip: take the initiative for yourself, please call HR-manager, call a potential leader, remind about yourself, strive for the early meetings. Speed \u200b\u200bis important.
3. Nonsystematic approach
you place a summary on the internet, scroll through the newspapers, and that's it? Do not wait! Remember that half the jobs on the Internet and newspapers - the so-called "Advertising" to create a personnel reserve accumulation resumes.
Tip: Use a maximum of search paths. Treat the job search, how to present work. Do this systematically for several hours a day, track contacts, etc.
4. Passivity after the interview
you said: "We are you one of these days перезвоним». Не верьте. Это может продолжаться две, три, четыре недели… Неужели они так долго выбирают? Нет. Они уже взяли на работу более шустрого.
Совет: themselves initiate the feedback from the employer. Start with the question: "When and to whom do I call to find out about your decision and continue the dialogue?»
5. Communication only with the personnel manager
HR-V and too many jobs to remember about all candidates and be interested in your job. His task - "Close" position and forget about it. You as an employee can no longer interested in a potential leader.
Tip: go directly to a future boss he is often interested in enhancing their department. However, proceed carefully, without falling into the other extreme, as in the following paragraph ...
6. Disrespect to the recruiter
you do not aspire to have a positive impression on the recruiter, considering it unnecessary middlemen? Ignore it, or demonstrate an easy contempt? In vain. It sometimes depends on your fate ...
Tip: behave with HR-ohm, so that it became your ally. Otherwise, your resume will be in the trash.
7. Summary as spam
you send your resume to all the jobs in a row, even if you have not one or lack of qualifications? Hope for and perhaps setting "give a try - I can cope" may work only on the lower steps of the career. Summary of the apparent discrepancy between the requirements clearly изложенным в вакансии, раздражают и отнимают время рекрутеров. Ответ на звонок рекрутера: «Я рассылал резюме на сотни разных вакансий, а у вас какая, расскажите?» indicates the absence of clear goals and your "omnivorous" that now is not the price.
Tip: Respect other people's labor. Before sending your resume, make sure you are on formal skills - the right candidate. And keep records of companies and jobs, where you send your CV.
8. Ignoring Internet etiquette
For example, call file with the summary: "my resume", "I", "Lesch, summary, or a nickname.
Or just give a link to your virtual resume posted on job-site. Hey, eychar, turn, look and download ...
Tip: Name the file your name and add the job title, eg: "Nikolai Petrov, an accountant." Think like a recruiter will maintain (And then to find!) Your resume in the database, help him help himself not to get lost in thousands of resumes.
9. Reluctance to go to the interview
Yes, and such happens ... It happens that the conversation with the candidate, who has already three months "looking for work, you will know that all this time he has visited only four or five interviews. And this three months? To quickly find a good job and have a choice, you must attend two or three interviews a day! And to get ten invitations to interview, you need to send one hundred resumes.
Tip: go for an interview, how to work. If a job does not take, so at least potreniruetes and new information on market get.
10. Being late for an interview
Most recruiters are invited to a number of candidates per vacancy in a row, with an interval of 30-45 minutes. In addition to demonstrating nepedantichnosti, its late and you still break schedule recruiter. But it seems worth it. Being late for more than 20 minutes (only if you are not a person frilanserskoy profession) - 80% refusal.
Tip: You'd better come early.
11. Refusal of tests and questionnaires
Yes, most HR-managers - Graduates of the psychological faculties and love all these games with the tests. But sometimes the testing of candidates - is really important and even mandatory requirement employer.
Tip: even if you are skeptical about the tests, smile and support the game. Do everything quietly, gently and without too many questions and jokes. Thereby helping recruiters to decide. Then your chances of 50 \\ 50. A refusal to test deletes you from the list of candidates to 90%.
12. Inflated salary and career ambitions
Remember: superstars do not look for work, she finds it herself. If you send us your resume, you're not a superstar ...
is no time to perk up. Often the alleged high salaries and beautifully named post - just bait for candidates to have more choices. And vice versa: unremarkable at first view post can give you a major boost and rapid growth.
Tip: look for the wider, look deeper and perspectives.
13. Negativity of the past job
can not talk about past places of work? A lot of things: about the conflict, gossip, scandals, bad boss and dislike to him, lazy employees ...
Tip: read a few articles, how to respond to questions in employment.
14. Parish for an interview during working hours
course, it has a value If you currently work. What did you say the authorities of the reason for absences? Time off "to a hospital or other school nonsense? Or "did not say anything my absence, no one will notice ...»? In other words, you cheated, or head, or walking. Who wants this worker?
Tip: go for an interview after hours or at lunchtime. So you show loyalty to the current employer and is likely for the future. Alternative: if the employer know about your upcoming departure, agree with him and have at least verbally, but official permission.
15. Cheating in a resume or to interview
Here there is no referring to an exaggeration of skills or protrusion achievements. A writing what is not and has not been ...
Tip: honesty is the best policy, all the secret becomes apparent, and so on When you tell the truth, you do not need to remember ...
16. Vague wording of the objectives
trite and common phrases in section summary of the "Purpose" such as: "Interesting work with decent wages," "Search interesting, developing work with career and professional growth, which will be adequately paid, "" getting a vacant position with the possibility of career and financial growth, "etc. meet every second and could resume not position you as a candidate. Often have to literally pull out with pincers true goals of the applicant and be completed in a summary of specific phrases: getting such a position in a certain area with your desired income so something. And the prospect of so and so ...
Tip: Narrow down your goals, avoid cliches and grandiloquent common phrases.
17. Excessive talkativeness, and encompassing so undesirable in the interview
mention the details of personal life, family relationships, with colleagues, nuances of health issues of religion, politics, etc. Desire in the near future to open your business. For women - an ambulance, pregnancy and childbirth. Misty answers questions about the motives of dismissal from previous jobs.
Council: no nonsense, just business. At least at the first interview. Plus a little humor ...
18. Poor self-presentation
inability to uncover their strengths, to recall the achievements, successes. Short monosyllabic answers, restraint, lack of confidence. Inability to apply himself, to "sell" ... reluctance to give or "forgetting" phones referees, former executives.
Tip: read, finally, two or three of the thousands of articles on the Internet on "how to successfully pass the interview and get active.
19. Inappropriate and incorrect questions from your side. For example:
a) What does your company?
b) When I raise wages?
c) Do you have any more jobs than this one?
d) How fast can you expect an increase in in office?
e) Could you tell me how to transport your travels?
e) What is your allotted time on smoke breaks?
e) If you take me, can I be begin work week or in three or four?
And the wrong answer to a question, do you have any questions? -
«I have no questions» ...
