If you have taken on board our advice about writing a concise job specification then you should have a good amount of appropriate candidates applying for a job but what do you do if you end up with a lot of applications and CVs. Well it can be a difficult and time consuming task to sort through them and establish who to bring in for an interview. In this blog post we will look at some of the key areas you should use to assess whether the applicant is right for your roles. If you look for the right things in these applications you should soon be able to work out who will be right to bring in.
When looking at the skills and achievements they list you will need to think how these will benefit you and the role. Do the skills they have provided actually match the ones required for the position? Is there any skills and achievements that make them stand out from the others, something that may actually help them in the role that you may have not initially thought was required.
When looking at the candidate’s qualifications and educational background you will be looking to see if it meets the requirements for this position. It will also be worth looking for applicants who have completed other courses that may bring extra skills to the position.
If they have the right skills and education, you can then move onto the work experience they have. Hopefully you will have applicants that have had good positive experiences in relevant industry sectors. There are many things to take on board when looking at this section of the CV. How many employers have they worked for? How long have they been with each one? Do they give reasons for leaving their current position?
To fully analyse this section you will need to look at what you require and how the candidate presents the information, hopefully painting them in a good light.
Sifting through a large amount of applications can be quite a task especially when finding candidate for accountancy jobs and other finance jobs. But by taking on board the points we have made, hopefully you can find a good selection to bring in a talk to.
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