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Prepare For Success
from applying for the job? Not necessarily, we recommend a strategy where you can be honest
about your shortcomings and still apply for the job in this example.
1. Research and find a classroom based or online course in French, and make sure you find
one that promises at least business level language fluency at the end of the course
2. Check dates, duration and prices. Be ready to start the course at a moment’s notice or at
the next possible opportunity
3. Next, contact the employer and explain to them that you have all the skills for the job,
apart from the language skills, but that you have a course ready and waiting and you will
commit to starting the course as a condition of joining should you be chosen for the job
and that you hope to become conversant (not fluent) in French within 6 to 12 months, or
whatever dates are predicted by the course with intensive study
4. If you are unable to contact the employer, you can simply explain the above as part of a
cover letter
Another area candidates may find that their resume is failing them is in the area of management
experience. How many times have you seen an application where you have all the skills, apart
from the one essential piece of work experience that is something like “at least 2 years’
experience supervising others”? You cannot fabricate this experience, so how can you address
this? It depends on your level of experience and will involve a combination of the techniques
mentioned above.
Example 3:
As with the language training, you could consider researching training providers of people
management skills and make a plan to be able to take intensive and on-going formal management
training to develop your skills. You can then ring the employer, explaining your strengths in
other areas as well as lack of
management experience, along
with your plan to correct it. You
may find that they are refreshed
by your honesty and proactive
nature and may offer to provide
some help with management
training, should you be chosen
for the job.
While it is important that you are
honest about your shortcomings,
there is absolutely no reason for
you to accept these limits. There are many tactics and approaches that you can
adopt to overcome your limits and make potentially successful applications for
jobs for which you did not have the skills.
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