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Applying For A Job

Curriculum Vitae / Resume

Your CV will be one of many that the company receives that week. Therefore, it is a good idea to make it stand out, subtly, from the rest e.g. use coloured paper, include a photo on the front page.

However, employers do not have the time to wade through long-winded applications so you should keep things condensed and get your main points across. If possible get all the information on one page, if not, use no more than two. They will ask for any more detailed information that they require if they decide to ask you along for an interview.

You can get your CV done professionally. Recruitment papers and probably your local paper carry advertisements from CV specialists. Another option is to find someone with a professional CV and copy the format. My own CV is online, see link opposite under personal information. I have always done my own CV, feel free to copy the format!

Doing it yourself is cheaper and not necessarily a mistake. Knowing how to do it properly though is important. It is your shop window. It is the only thing potential employers have, to decide if they want to interview you. It can make the difference between getting a good job and not getting any interviews. Suffice to say that in 14 years offshore I've never been out of work for more than a couple of weeks, but you have to search out the jobs, they don't fall in your lap very often.

I am not going to go into great detail on the appropriate layouts for CVs. They should, however, contain personal and educational information, skills profile, employment history, references and interests/hobbies.

They should contain accurate and honest information and be free of spelling and grammatical errors.

Your leisure time activities are of interest to employers as it tells them if you are a loner or team worker. If your main past times are, for example, reading, playing computer games and painting water colours, throw in a team sport.

Covering Letter
This is also important as it catches the reader's attention and helps them to decide whether to put your CV on the pile or to actually read it. As with the CV, the covering letter should be precise and to the point. It should guide the potential employer to your particular employment wishes. A typical example would include……

Potential Employer's Address
Your Address & Phone Number
The Date

Dear Sir / Madam,

I have recently completed my basic Offshore Safety & Emergency Training with RGIT Limited in Aberdeen and now wish to pursue a career within the Oil Industry.

Ideally I would like to gain employment within my trade as an electrician, however I am willing to start at the bottom and work my way up within your organization. I am therefore looking for a job as a Roustabout.

Please find my CV enclosed.

Yours faithfully,
Joe Bloggs

When you have created your well-presented CV and covering letter, bought your stamps and A4 envelopes, you are then ready to apply for a position. Also enclose a photocopy of your survival certificate and offshore approved medical certificate.

I am reminded at this point of a news item I saw a few years back when a particular oil company was so inundated with CVs that they trashed all applications in brown manila envelopes and only considered those in white envelopes with a first class stamp. Unfair? Yes, but I've never used a brown envelope since.

Also, it's a good idea to use full A4 size envelopes so your freshly printed CV and copied certificates are not creased when they arrive on the desk of your prospective employer.

Find out which companies pertain to your employment goal and create and edit an address list as applicable. Initially make contact by sending a CV to as many companies as you can on the next page.

Alternatively you can make use of the CV submittal service from www.rigjobs.co.uk

They charge a fee for this service, $30, but it's 100% honest, I have tested it, it works, I even got a job offer, although they make no guarantees of work.

I have had dealings with the people who run this site and it is 100% honest and you will get what you pay for. The replies come directly back to your own email address.

Most are just standard replies promising to put you on their database, which 99% of companies will do with written applications anyway. It's an excellent and cost effective way of getting your CV on file with over 1,000 genuine companies.

I don't charge for the address details on the next page because some of the addresses and company details may not be as up to date as they might be but the ones at www.rigjobs.co.uk are kept up to date and the service is well worth $30.

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