We often get requests to update a resume and draft a cover letter, in partnership with the client, to apply for a specific position.
In a few cases, the client hasn’t looked or doesn’t realise they don’t have the essential experience or a qualification, for a key part of the application.
That means the application will not be short-listed.
If an applicant doesn’t have 90 per cent of the essential criteria, they are wasting their time and money.
The application will sink like a stone, even if Shakespeare did the co-writing.
If an employers says they want a candidate with at least five years experience in a specific job and you only have two years, you wan’t be short-listed.
If you don’t have the right licences and tickets for a job, you won’t be short-listed.
If they state they want people with a diploma or a degree, they’re serious.
Clients also ask us whether we think they’d be a ‘good fit’, based on their resume, for a certain position.
We can’t answer that because it’s ‘leading the client’.
It could be considered that we are advising the client to apply for a job, based on monetary gain.
Other ‘professional’ writers may do that but ethically, that’s not our scene.
Objectively assess the job criteria in light of one’s experience, qualifications, skills and capabilities.
You’ll save yourself, time, money and frustration.