Welcome to the

seminar:

CV &
Coverletter
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The Job

YOU

INFLUENCE
Out of
INFLUENCE

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Todays show

The Job add and your qualifications

Exercise How to present your qualifications
The professional and excellent CV
Hov to improve your CV
The successfull Cover letter
Create a great headline that actually works
Questions

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Education

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RECRUITMENT; HI3G;
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CONFEX

Work Experience
Recruitmnent
Final selection
Have read more
than 1000 CVs &
Coverletters
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(personality/IQ)
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Courses
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Jobhunting

The Leading Star

Your CV & s Coverletter

- One purpose only:

To be invited to the job interview!

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How well do you match the

job requirements?
The Job

YOU

The ideal
candidate
The Match

What do you
posess besides
the job
requirements

This I
can
learn

75%?
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Prepare yourself
- Jobhunting

Find your succes stories

Whats the best results you have created?

Describe your personal

competences/skills
Which words will you use to describe your
working behaviour?

What values must be in your next

job?
Jobcontent, organizational culture
Expectation of the environment, your
boss, worklife balance

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Dit
Your
CV
dynamiske CV
Show us your core
Synliggr
dine
skills/competence
kompetencer
Show your history
Vis os din historie
Show benefits &
Vis
os dine resultater
results
Hvad er din mervrdi
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The Recruiting process

The time the recruiter spends
reading your CV:
To end up among the A-List candidates or
Around 30 seconds
Which candidates to invite for an interview
5-7 minutes
Preparing for the interview
7-10 minutes

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CV & Cover letter

- The perspective

CV

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Cover
letter

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CV

First point of contact between you and

your future colleagues
Extremely important
Background, accomplisments,
responsibilities, results/benefits
EASY to glance through
Catch the interest of the reader

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CV

Particularities attached to your field?

Match their terminology
Ask people to scan your CV : what do
they remember?
NOT the time to be modest about your
duties and accomplishments!
No more than 2-3 pages

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CV must contain:

CV
layout

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Keep it simple
One font
Clear margen
Easy to read!

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CV must contain:

Contact
details

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Name
Address:
one!
Mobile: one!
Mail: one!

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CV must contain:

Time
line

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Reverse
chronology:
new stuff
first

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CV must contain:

Education

Key subjects
Projects/
thesis
Grade/result
Focus on:
what you
want to use

NOW
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CV must contain:

Courses

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Summer
School
Important
courses

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CV must contain:

Work
experience

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Employer
Tasks
Responsi
-bility
Results
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CV must contain:

Language

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Make possible to
measure
Oral, writing
www.jobindex.dk

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CV must contain:

ITskills

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Possible to
measure
Context hands
on angle
Leave out the
obvious: internet,
Word etc
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CV must contain:

Hobbies

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Commitment?
Competition?
Team spirit?
Consolation?
Structure?
Timing?
Endurance?
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Professional Skills
Curicullum Vitae
2009-2011

Cems Master in International Management

Exchange semester af XXXX University, France

2009-2011

MSc. Applied Economics & Finance (CBS)

2005-2008

BSc. International Business (CBS)

2000-2003

Higher Comercial exam Niels Brock,

Copenhagen Business College

Exchange semester at Universitat de Barcelona,

Spain, studied four courses in economics and Social
science in Spanish

Achievement: Highest GPA of Year 2003 (10,1)

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EDUCATION
2004-2006

Cand.merc. International Business, (ASB)

Academic areas
Established international companies
Finansial analysis among others international capitalmovements
Project management and control
International marketanalysis
Main task (For Dan Wear Collection A/S)
Implementing a change of production structures at Danwear
Collection A/S s daughtercompany in Czeck. (Result 10)
Practical result
Quote from reference: We are using the results from Berits analysis. More
concrete we can inform that we began an educationsprocess for our production
employees on securing the quality. (Ove Nielsen ceo Danwear Collection)
Development points
Experience on quantity and quality marketing analysis and the presentation of
the result
Managing the projects
Making critical evaluations on a given market

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WORK EXPERIENCE
2005

Trainee at the embassy in Prag

Tasks
Preparation of statistic material on demografic conditions for Danish export
companies.
Service assistant on the Danish stand: Czech Republic in EU (Mostly English
speaking visitors)
Project participant to find Danish partners for the fair.
Telephone contact to more than 50 Danish companies within the food industry.
(8 participated in the fair)
Worked daily at the office answering the phone, registered data in the database
and corresponded.)
Resultats
Has made a marketing evaluation on the food sector in Czech republic for the
website for the foreign affair ministry
Built up the network for the food wholesalers which is still being used by the
embassy in the Czech Republic.
Development Points
Knowledge on how to carry out marketing analysis in East Europe
Got used to take contact to possible partner companies
Knowlegde of Easteuropean business culture
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Academic competences I
That allready is a part of you

Organizing one step at a time, logical

Organizing projects, management of projects, putting a
succesfull team together
Methodology different kinds of solutions, scenarios,
evaluating pros/cons
Creating and conducting surveys; qualitative interviews,
questionaires, focus-groups, sms-polls
Comparing data analysing, selection of data, presentation
of data & results
Evaluation Qualitative & quantitative methods
Creating models of complex information, making grafical
illustrations
Developing ideas, innovation, brainstorming processes
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Academic competences II
That allready is a part of you

Cross Cultural understanding, businesses, regions,

countries
Change management, beginning on a new project,
starting from scratch, how?
Communicating, writing & oral, teaching/educating
others; presentation skills, planning and conducting
events
Knowledge about groups and dynamics, knowing about
your own strength and preferences, teamroles
Working together, group psychology, lean
Networking skills Different businesses, among
different kinds of people, among different kinds of
compentences
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CV may contain:

International
experience

Travelling
Exchange
Languages
Initiative +
organization
Global
mindset

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CV may contain:

Personal
information

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Age?
Marital status?
Children?
DK: extreme
opposite to
the US in this
context
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CV may contain:

Photo

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Professional
Focus
Dress code

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CV may contain:

Leadership

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Instructor?
Military
Captain in
sports?
Political
activities?
Initiative in
other contexts?

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CV may contain:

Teaching
experience

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Presentation
skills
Able to
inspire and
motivate

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HONORARY OFFICES/VOLUNTEER WORK

2004

Honorary offices/volunteer work

First year instructor (ABS)
Tasks
Planning the one week introduction
Responsible for the introduction for 45 students
Teambuilding and social arrangements
Development Pouints
Learned how to run/direct big arrangements

2005

2001

Staying abroad
The Czech Republic
Had my own apartment

Australia
Backpacker for six months
Worked with gardening and at a hotel
Development Points
Learned to stand on my own two feet

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Your next great CV

- an exercise

Exercise :
Helping each other
Making your CVs
even greater?

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Dont Miss
WRITING SEMINAR
CV & COVERLETTER
2010.09.28
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Your Cover letter

Your personal sales letter
How to tell the good story
Characteristic
advantage benefit

Inside the head of the

recruiter

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The Cover letter

- What, Why, How?

Its just a Sales Letter

Your chance to show why you are more

competent than the others!

The letter that shows your motivation for

becomming an employee

The letter showing the company your values

& which benefits you bring to the company

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The Successfull
Coverletter is

I
D
A

A headline (title) which crates attention

Unique fitted to the company and the job

Focus on which contributions you bring
not the other way around
Purpose is to catch the recruiters attention &
interests, so he/she wants to hear/learn more
Be specific and indclude only relevant
information
No longer than one page

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Headliners

Can Communications Skills save lives?

Can women sell Power Tools?

Marketing-entusiast; Manager & Motivator
Manager who forces networing and member-relations
Thats exactely me
Lend me your eyes for 3 minutes Later I also need
your ears

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HIT - Bulls eye

- With your Cover Letter

JOB
Find employer FM

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Youll hit
Bulls eye
When
You
Broadcast
On
The
Recievers - Frequenzy
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The Q-A-B model

Qualifications

QAB The Model

Whats the
charactertistics
of your skill

Advantage

Benefits

What does the

characteristics do
for you

Whats in it for
me?

Ex.

Mattress hardness
level on 70%

The advantage
the mattress forms
after the shape of
your back

Your back will never

be sore again
Youll never feel,
that you havent
slept again

From Benefits to Qualifications

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The great cover letter

Version 2:

Version 1:
Reciever

Applicant/
candidate

Reciever

Interesting headline

Interesting headline
Motivation: What makes you apply for the job?
Why is the company and the business
interesting?
Your professiobal background:
Which of your skills (from education, previous
jobs) are you bringing with you? How will your
skills create new results for the company/
Your professiobal background:
Which of your skills (from education, previous
jobs) are you bringing with you? How will your
skills create new results for the company

Applicant/
candidate

No longer than
one page!
Chosse the version,
that represents you
the best way in
regard to the job
and the company

Motivation: What makes you apply for the job?

Why is the company and the business
interesting?
Competence 1: Which of your skille do you
consider most relevant and interersting in
addition to the job. Which examples do you chosse
to tell
Competence 2:
Like above
Competence 3:
Like above

Wrap it up
Wrap it up
Kind Regards
Kind Regards
Name Phone xxxx xxxx e-mail: xxxxx@xx.dk

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Name Phone xxxx xxxx e-mail: xxxxx@xx.dk

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The Great Coverletter

Basicly its your most important sales letter

Doesnt repeat information from your CV
Write a letter which creates ATTENTION!!
Shows that you can think OUT OF THE BOX
Shows that you think as the reciever and try to
understand their world and their preferences

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Job hunting

One of todays dilemmas

The companys
job-adverticing

27%
73%

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Time spend on jobsearch

(applicants)

Posted adds
Non-posted
adds

45%
55%

Traitional
jobsearch
Untraditional
jobsearch

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Job adverts
Some statistics

Public Admin.

Medical & Biotech

Sales

Communication &
journalism

Retail

Marketing

Economics &
Accounting

Human Ressource

Compared to
Q3; 2008 (%)

Internet & web

Numbers of
Job Ads,
Q3; 2009

347

207

458

1728

248

3155

393

1628

257

34,1

41,1

43,3

48,0

51,0

54,6

59,5

64,1

67,6

Source, http://www.jobindex.dk/cms/dansk/jobbarometer.shtml
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Job adverts
Some statistics

Internet & web

Public Admin.

Medical & Biotech

Sales

Communication &
journalism

Retail

Marketing

Economics &
Accounting

Human Ressource

347

207

458

1728

248

3155

393

1628

257

34,1

41,1

43,3

48,0

51,0

54,6

59,5

64,1

67,6

Voluntary work (Adverts)

Q3, 2009: 347

Compared to Q3, 2008: +53,3%
Numbers of
Job Ads,
Q3; 2009
Compared to
Q3; 2008 (%)

Source, http://www.jobindex.dk/cms/dansk/jobbarometer.shtml
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The Unsolicited
application

Written specific to the company

Focus on your talents The skills that make

you better than the rest

Focus on your career wishes Create your own

job

And remember:

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The unsolicited application often creates results

but it takes longer
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Be the best you can be!

- Be successfull writing cover letter

Ask every single word: do you belong

here?
Make sure you create attention and a
superb first time impression
Write short, accurate and create
interests
Write forward (cut the backwardlooking)
Write good stories
Is it wise? Does it work?!
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Finally:

Make someone revise it

File format must work
PDF secure solution
Double check: are all relevant files
included?
Header unmistakable: CV Katrine
Jensen
Make it EASY for them

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Book an appointment
- Career counselling

http://career.cbs.dk/appointments/
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Questions & contact

Contact:
CA a-kasse
Web.: www.ca.dk
Lars Ulrik Jeppesen
e-mail: luj@ca.dk Phone: 5129-8650

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