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Welcome to the Vlerick Alumni site, login for complete access. | 05/02/2012
Career tips
Prepared by Mary Roll, Career Services Manager Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School
12 February 2008
 
How to Get the Job You Want
  • Develop your key criteria
  • Generate and evaluate options
  • Prepare your approach
  • Connect with companies
  • Decide between options!
How to Get Interviews
 
For non career changers:
  • Advertisements
  • Recruitment firms 
For career changers:
  • Networking
  • In some cases direct marketing
Tips for Writing your CV
  • Be factual - avoid subjective claims
  • Use the past tense
  • Tailor your CV for each application
  • Use bullet points
  • 1 page for specific MBA applications, 2 pages preferred, 3 page max
  • If you are changing industry avoid jargon
  • If you are changing function, be careful using a functional CV. Rather pick out your cross-transferable skills
Tips for Interviewing
  • Listen to the question
  • Answering the question – not the question you wish you had been asked
  • Keep to the point and do not give superfluous information
  • Be enthusiastic
Interesting Reads for Job Hunters and Career Changers
  • Pitch Yourself, Faust, Bill; Faust, Michael, Pearson, Prentice Hall Business
  • What Color is Your Parachute?: A practical manual for job-hunters and career changers,Bolles, Richard Nelson, Ten speed press, 2003
  • Now, discover your strengths, Marcus Buckingham and Donald O Clifton, The Gallup Organization 2001.

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