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Tip number 1: Get to the point

According to Indeed, hiring managers spend an average of 6-7 seconds looking at your CV.

That means that chances are, your 10-page CV outlining the grades you recorded in high school, that touch-footy best and fairest award from year 11 and every hospitality certificate you earned in your half-a-dozen part-time jobs are probably going to land you in the hiring manager’s recycling bin.

Scheeler says you need to keep CVs short and sweet and get to the point in one page.

“On that one page you’ve really got to think about: what are the qualities that the organisation or boss or hirer’s going to be looking for?”

Tip #2: Think about the ‘impact’ you can make on

Plot twist: recruiters aren’t (just) looking at your qualifications. Or where you went to uni. Or even what you studied (gasp).

“That’s just information,” Scheeler said. “What you need to do is boil it down and figure out what’s going to drive impact in the role you’re applying for,” he said.

“It’s a good idea to come at it from your own perspective. For example, to drive impact for this particular role, perhaps you need to be really good at collaboration,” he said.

“And then you’d think, okay - what are the things in my CV or cover letter or communication I’m going to send that can demonstrate my ability to collaborate? And how am I going to demonstrate that in the interview?”

Tip #3: Market yourself as the ‘Secret Ingredient’

The final step, Scheeler says, is to draw on examples of where you were the difference between a mediocre team or group becoming outstanding.

“Show them - using examples - how you were the secret ingredient that made that team more collaborative, or more creative, or move faster or be more strategic,” he said.

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