3.7 Job application and CV

Job application

When you are looking for a job, you need to send a job application to the employee. The application is prepared forehand in a written form.

Why it is important to prepare a job application:

• The employee wants to know the basic information about you in order to decide if you are competence to the position. This basic information is easy to find and summarize from your application.

• The employee can see from your application if you have the basic general work life skills. (Check from section 3.4, the general work life skills: for example writing skills, learning skills, interactional skills, language skills, computer skills etc.)

• Comparing applicant´s job applications, the employee will choose the best candidates for the job to be interviewed.

Job application contains two parts a) application form and b) CV = (Curriculum Vitae)

A) Application form you will tell the employee:

• What kind of job you are seeking?

• Why are you seeking the job in a question?

• Where have you worked before and what else have you done?

• What kind of education do you have?

• Why would you be a good choice to this work position?

In the following links, you can look at how the application form part 1 is usually prepared:

• Application form

• Application form

• Application form (Persia)

• Application form (Arabic)

Application form is written as a paper form or electrically and sent to employee. Look carefully from the advertisement what is the expiring day for the application.

Assignment 1: Practice to prepare a job application.

B) CV = Curriculum Vitae

When you seek a job, it is usual to send a CV to an employee in addition to the job application form. It is a good idea to prepare the CV to be ready to send at any time. In CV, you will tell in a chronological order.

CV (Curriculum Vitae) is your personal record sheet or resume. In CV, you tell what kind of work experience and education you have and what kind of skills you have earned. In CV there are at least the following explained in a chronological order:

• Work experience: Explain where you have worked before and what kind of tasks your work included

• Education: Explain what kind of education you have and do you have a professional degree

• Hobbies: Explain what kind of things you are interested in and what kind of things you like to do

• IT-skills: Explain how much you work with computer or other e-tools. What can you do with the computer and what kind of experience you have with it

• Language skills: What languages can you speak, write and read.

Using the following links you can look at CV-model:

•  CV = ANSIOLUETTELO  (Curriculum Vitae)

• CV in Arabic

• CV in Persian

• Tutustu www.infopankki.fi CV:n tekemiseen

Practice making your own cv with the following assignments

Assignment 2: Work experience:

• Explain what kind of work and work places you had before

• What were your work tasks

• Write a list about your job positions in a chronological order

Assignment 3: Studies:

• Explain, what have you studied and in which educational institutions

• Explain if you have a vocational degree

• Make a list all of your studies and training courses you have participated in

Assignment 4: Hobbies:

• Explain where are you interested in and what have you done other than work in your life.

• Write a list about your hobbies or interests.

Assignment 5: IT-skills:

• Explain what you can do with the computer.

• What kind of experience you have working with the computer

• Write a list about your computer skills.

Assignment 6: Language skills:

• Explain what languages you conquer (speak, write, understand, even a small language skill is valuated).

• Write a list about those languages you conquer and evaluate your language skills