Hi there.
Let's continue from where we stopped.
So I started this discussion; I hope to end it just soon.
I was trying to help you spot that possible issue behind your CV rejection palava.
Now, here is a typical scenario.
You were more than a hundred who had submitted your resumes to a prospective employer’s email.
All of you felt you were adequately qualified to be invited for the second phase of the job screening exercise.
As for you, your case is different.
You actually sent that same stale CV prepared for you a few years back at that cyber café close to your home. In fact, all graduates in your vicinity use that same café. Just like you, everyone visits this café and pay the operator a sum of two hundred nairas to help them produce a CV.
The sharp guy keeps editing a particular CV template he has on his system since 2011 (which he’d sometimes ago prepared for a bus driver) for all of you the so-called graduates - his victims.
His usual routine is to open this MS Word pre-prepared document and edit the details of Mr Raufu Ajadina (the fictional bus driver) in order to personalize it for each of you.
It is this same CV you roll out each time to spam peoples email - in the name of ‘sending CV’.
Let us be factual dear reader. I’d told you in the first episode that you needed to have a proper check of your professional representation tool (i.e. your CV) before you start accusing your village people as being responsible for your failure to secure a befitting job.
Seriously, I don’t know the special touch you think is therein such CV (as cited above) that keeps giving you the effrontery that you’ll be called for a next phase of the interview.
You know you won’t be there in the evening when that tired boss would be reading through his email to see which one of you applicants would wow him.
The previous day, he had spent his valuable time to read 71 ‘useless’ CVs; and now, opening his email, he has 103 new emails from fresh applicants - yours inclusive.
Having read 71 the previous day, you should agree with me that he wouldn’t be looking for grades again. So now that yours is among the latecomers, what do you think could stand you out?
Please forget the nonsense “I had a first class OR second class upper anthem” here!
Employers are now extra smart my friend; they start suspecting your thinking faculty from the image you portray to them as a first impression right on your CV.
They also spend some time to look at the languages on your CV. Gone are those days when age and grades determine the overall fate of applicants’ employability.
Now, what keeps you on their TO REVIEW list is your IQ level – which can be easily spotted upon the first appearance of your CV.
It is better to be shortlisted then later disqualified on some other criteria than being qualified but not making the list. Read this 5times to get a deeper understanding!
Or you think because you have the best qualifications in the whole Nigeria would blindfold employers to spend their precious 2 minutes on your dry doc?
Sorry, they delete immediately they spot yours is another generic kinda CV.
Put yourself in those recruitment officers’ shoes. You will do same once you are able to spot the person whose CV you are looking at is one of those educated illiterates; those who barely invest some time and effort to know what is trending in the act of corporate communication.
Lastly, for now, one funny thing is that quark CVs are easily spotted from the very first line once they are opened.
Do you even know that to save busy employers precious time, many of them now use software that helps them automatically detect and delete annoying CVs?
They are tagged ‘annoying’ because they have no atom of relevance to the opening advertised.
How do you then survive this advanced technology (i.e. Hr software) when all you have at present is a plagiarized CV – a format that reigned several years backwards?
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