Think Like a Manager When Applying for Jobs

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When creating any document, a writer must consider the audience’s needs and wants. Why should it be any different with job applications? As you work through a job application form, update your résumé and write a cover letter, think about what the hiring manager wants to know about you and how your knowledge, skills and abilities align with the job requirements.

The more you anticipate and meet the reader’s needs, the more likely your application will make it from the mountain the employer receives to the small stack the employer finds intriguing.

Make yourself stand out from the crowd by showing yourself to be who the hiring manager wants to find. Follow the tips below to make your application something a hiring manager will actually want to read.

Be succinct.

Keep your writing to the point. Flowery language and big words frustrate more than they impress. Applications should be dense with facts, not with buzzwords and strings of adjectives.

The faster you can say something about yourself, the easier it will be understood and the more you can say in a reasonable amount of space. Application forms have defined field lengths and text box sizes. Think long and hard before exceeding these limitations.

Cover the bases.

All requirements outlined in the job posting must be followed to the letter. If the posting requires applicants to submit college transcripts, you must include them. Failing to include required documents shows lack of attention to detail and gives the hiring manager a perfectly justifiable reason to throw your application away without looking at it.

Double and triple check your application packet to ensure that you include all the necessary materials.

Talk about fit.

Contrary to what many people believe, hiring managers are not primarily concerned with finding the person with the highest qualifications. After all, rocket scientists don’t deliver pizzas for a living (not that there is anything wrong with delivering pizzas). Managers want competent new hires, but they are willing to take the second or third most talented person if they will be a better fit than the most qualified person.

Managers are concerned with how a new hire will fit in with the manager’s team, division and organization. Even if you’re applying for a job that is mostly a solitary effort, being a team player is never a bad thing.

Good fit trumping talent is shown most clearly in professional sports. While few organizations are more talent-focused than a sports franchise, a supremely talented player that gets labeled as a “locker room cancer” will only be tolerated for so long. A team cannot thrive with someone disruptive to the team’s goals.

Explain the benefits to the organization.

You should say you are excited about the job and that it will offer you opportunities to grow, but do not dwell on it. The more important thing to discuss is how you will benefit the organization. Take your personality and experience and apply them to what the ideal candidate for the job looks like.

Be on time.

Your application must arrive at the correct place by the deadline. Even if you see the job posting for the first time the night before the application packet is due, there is no excuse for turning in a late or incomplete application. Your punctuality should continue throughout the hiring process.

<Source: govcareers.about.com/>



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