3 mistakes to avoid when applying for jobs or funding from schools abroad.

Please stop making these mistakes!!!

I will keep this simple.

What are the mistakes people make when applying for jobs or international study opportunities?

Sending resume as CV or vice-versa. Most times, when you are applying to study abroad, the required document is a cv. Not a resume and each of these two documents has a structure. Never mistake them for the same.

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Not Having Relevant job-related or academic field-related experiences.

If the company is hiring for a family therapist, and your background is in chemical biology, you clearly will be shooting yourself in the leg, if your resume highlights skills that have no link with the relevant position. Some people don’t know what Resume Tailoring is about. People in my coaching community will be learning that.

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A good way to highlight relevant skills is to describe other volunteer or extracurricular engagements that demonstrate that you have the skills they want.

An unrelated background: I studied Classics and Communications at my previous academic levels. Now, I then applied for a study opportunity in social work. How do I tell the story? I highlight all the community service works that I have done and give them fancy names that will simply fit into what they want to see.

A job-related example: An experienced social service provider, who has worked in several advocacy positions working with survivors of domestic violence, and looking to deploy my skill to help your organization achieve her set objectives.

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Academic/research-related example: While serving as a community advocate with XYZ, I deployed my digital skills, and facilitated a workshop, where I provided 50 school children with basic skills, for handling soft wares such as Excel, Microsoft, Adobe, among others. In this role, I used compassion, and empathetic listening, which are some of the qualities that make for a social worker.

Sharing Stories Not Data. Schools you will be applying to, want to see data. Numbers. Achievements. The companies that are recruiting want to see data. Numbers. Achievements. They want to see what you have done, and that demonstrates that you can do the same for them.

But, BM, I don’t even have a job. I have never worked for any body. Actually, you have.

You are a mom, you have developed skills. That role is a job! And a full-time one at that.

You are someone’s sister. You babysit for a friend. You help friends organize parties. You have rendered some kind of help. As long as you can come up with creative ways of describing these small achievements, and can find relevance, you have something important to share. Just show progress.

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