We occasionally get a prospective client in Adelaide who asks if we write selection criteria.
We HELP the client write the criteria but we DON’T write the document.
One reason is that we are not you. We can’t read your mind and selection criteria is about ‘reading’ the candidate’s mind.
It’s recruiter bullshit because behaviour is far more complex than that but don’t get me started.
South Australian and Commonwealth public service recruiters can tell by experience and by using AI-driven scanning programs, whether an applicant has written their selection criteria.
You’ll see heaps of online resume writer shonks who say they will write the whole document and charge you $40 a criteria.
You’ll be $400 out of pocket and you won’t be short-listed.
How can a shonk write a selection criteria for a nurse, an IT analyst or senior public service administrator?
Think about the ethics of what you are asking. That’s a post for later on.
If you use someone else to write the selection criteria in totality, you won’t be short-listed for the job.
We had a client seek our help to apply for a fairly senior management job with the SA public Service.
It carried a salary of around $120,000 and up.
When he found out we didn’t write them from start to finish, he ‘went shopping’ for other writers.
On his tour of Google, he will have met a sea of backyard shonks and text ‘cut and pasters’.
I’ll state it again. The recruitment assessment team really wants the applicant to answer the selection criteria from their own experience.
They’re trying to gauge what sort of applicant you are.
We give advice and help with writing and editing. This includes using the CAR method (Context, Action and Result).
We edit the criteria so the document is sharp and compelling.
The price depends on the nature and size of the job.