Making applications: getting past the first post

Your formal application to an employer, whether it’s an online application form, an uploaded CV and covering letter, or another format, is the all-important first impression. In this chapter we will take you through the different requirements of the application process and help you to make the best possible job of this first step. You might be the best interviewee in the world but without a good application you will never get to the interview stage.

Just to clarify, when we refer to applications we are including application forms, both downloadable and online, and also CVs and covering letters, which are the preferred application method of some ...

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