Searching online for jobs is not always easy. There are so many websites listing hundreds or even thousands of vacancies, that it can be tricky to find the vacancies that are suited to your skills and experience. One of the most obvious ways to make sure your job search returns useful results is to think strategically about the search terms you use when you use the search engine. When I was looking for jobs I tried a variety of approaches, starting by using phrases such as ‘security jobs jobs London’ and ‘sales jobs jobs London’. I found that this returned quite a few useful results, and I wondered whether I could find suitable vacancies by being a bit more specific about the role I was looking for. I then tried searching for ‘sales ledger manager jobs in London’ and ‘accounts clerk jobs in Bedfordshire’. These gave me some quite interesting roles to look at, so my next task was to work on my CV and covering letter.
I found that there was quite a lot of advice online on writing covering letters, some of which I will outline below. I sometimes find it quite difficult to decide what to include in covering letters, and decided that the most effective approach was to keep them fairly short if possible. The most important role of the covering letter is to make the reader want to look at your CV, and they are unlikely to do this if you write a wordy cover letter. When applying for the positions I had found in my internet searches, I checked the requirements of the roles and detailed the reasons why I met those requirements. I also made sure I addressed the letter to the person stated on the job advert – as there is nothing as uninspiring as reading a letter addressed to ‘Sir/Madam’ or ‘To Whom it May Concern’.
There are so many different views on what makes a good CV that I found it quite hard to decide how to approach this crucial part of my job search. Rather than listing my experience chronologically, I decided on a skills-based CV – so under the title ‘relevant experience’ I grouped my work experience according to the skills I felt would be applicable to the role.
Having finalised my covering letter and CV, I tailored them individually to all the vacancies I had found in my searches for sales jobs jobs London and sales ledger manager jobs in London. My husband was looking for work in the security business, so using the hints I had read, I helped him with his CV, and we sent it to some of the companies we had found when we had searched for security jobs jobs London. My search for accounts clerk jobs in Bedfordshire had unfortunately not found anything that related to my experience, but I had enough to be getting on with!
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