Job Application Mastery

Can you afford to be in the pile of applications that's rejected because you didn't learn how to write to selection criteria?

Are you sabotaging your interview performance through anxiety, false assumptions and unrealistic expectations?

This workshop expands on Dr Villiers' nationally recognised book How to Write and Talk to Selection Criteria (4th edn.)

This is a practical two day program during which you learn how to:

• Explore your employability mindset
• Analyse your experience, skills, qualities and knowledge
• Research a job to gain inside intelligence for a competitive edge
• Develop a results-based focus to your work
• Prepare a resume and draft a covering letter
• Apply techniques for writing a quality statement to selection criteria
• Prepare for interviews so that you sound convincing and confident
• Talk comfortably about strengths and achievements
• Develop skills in self-promotion.

Interview modules supported by DVD-based material

Interview modules in this program crack the interview code by:

• explaining what the panel is actually doing (or should be doing)
• outlining the essential preparation you need to do before the interview
• offering strategies for managing nervousness that sabotages your performance
• demonstrating what interview questions mean and how to answer them so you sound coherent, concise and confident.

Using DVD-based material of applicants being interviewed, you'll see how different ways of talking at interview make all the difference to how you sound and what impression you create.

This video material shows two applicants, one a mature age man named Roger Koudbee, the other, a less experienced but more articulate Generation Y women named Gillian Ready, being interviewed - same questions, different responses. Roger and Gillian also reveal how they feel before the interview, showing how a person's 'mental panty' (the beliefs they hold and thinking processes) affect their performance.

When you see and hear how applicants apply the strategies covered in this program, you'll know what you have to do to perform at your best.

Program structure

Job Application Mastery covers these modules:

Module 1: Developing an employability mindset

Module 2: Preparation and planning

• Ongoing preparation – 6 ways to prepare
• Understanding the recruitment and selection process
• Researching the specific job

Module 3: Components of the Application

• The statement to selection criteria – 12 ways to write a quality statement
• The covering letter
• The resume
• Referees’ reports

Module 4: Preparing for the interview – handling nerves

Preparing for generic questions

Module 5: At the interview

• Rapport building
• Answering different types of questions

Module 6: After the interview

Module 7: Outcome planning: developing an action plan to apply learnings

Also, ask about Ann's Selection Criteria Review Service - for people who have written their application and seek further advice.

How to write applications that get short listed (half or one day program)

This program is structure around 4 modules:

Module 1: Understanding the application cycle

Module 2: Preparation and planning

• Ongoing preparation – 6 ways to prepare
• Understanding the recruitment and selection process
• Researching the specific job

Module 3: Components of the Application

• The statement to selection criteria – 12 ways to write a quality statement
• The covering letter
• The resume
• Referees’ reports

Module 4: Outcome planning: developing an action plan to apply learnings

To explore these options please contact us and we can modify the program to suit your needs.