Longlisting

I've spent the best part of two days longlisting for a post that had over 90 applicants. Here are some tips I can offer for free and for nothing.

1. Apart from what you got in your A-levels, nothing about your schooldays is of the slightest interest.

2. Explain how you meet the required competencies -- yes it takes longer to write your CV that way, but it means I will actually read it.

3. Don't use words like liaise unless you know how to spell them.

4. Don't write your entire application in lower case unless it is for a job sending text messages.

5. Don't attach a CV written in an obsolete wordprocessing package that takes ten minutes to convert into something readable.

6. Get a sensible email address, funkybutt.

joella