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My top 3 tips to improve your application's chances:

My top 3 tips to improve your application's chances:
  1. Gain expertise in a skill that is in demand (and that you enjoy), and apply for positions requiring those skills. When you know a little bit of everything and are open to and "can do any job", you're more likely to end up with no job. A coach can help you identify your strengths, how they match with jobs in the international development sector and what gaps would be worth your while to close.
  2. Apply only for jobs for which you meet the minimum requirements. You will not be called for an interview if you almost meet them. If the recruiters cannot find anyone who meets the criteria, they are required to advertise again, possibly with revised requirements. Therefore, your time is better spent on point #1 above. Apply again when you can check all the boxes. A coach can help you decipher the language of vacancy announcements and help make your application efforts more targeted and effective.
  3. Use your cover letter to concisely present to the recruiters how your experience and competencies meet or exceed the minimum requirements of the job. When you leave it for the recruiters to do the matching from the various parts of your CV, you drastically decrease your chances of making it to the next stage in the screening process. Make it obvious, in the most succinct way possible. A coach who has spent a good amount of time at the other side of the table, will quickly be able to pinpoint changes that could significantly improve the chances of your application getting noticed.
- By Veronika Ambertson

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