The key to landing a job is to sell yourself. This means you have to plan and prepare a superb resume?and cover letter to introduce yourself.
The main purpose of a resume?is to summarise your personal, educational and professional qualifications in a written document, whereas the cover letter is the first point of contact and accompanies your resume? It gives you the opportunity to establish why the employer should consider you for the advertised vacancy and, hopefully, interest them enough to invite you for an interview.
For those with work experience, list your period of employment in your resume? along with the name of the employer, your position with the company and precisely what you did. However, don't just write out your job duties - expand and elaborate on the key skills you learned which are applicable for the position.
If you have no work experience, you can still show responsibility and transferable workplace skills gained through university, volunteer work, extra-curricular sporting activities and unpaid internships as long as you can establish relevance to the position at hand.
You may also wish to highlight your selected subjects which you excelled in within the achievements section of your resume?and highlight any other relevant skills, such as language proficiencies and computer skills.
As employers receive hundreds of applications, it is of paramount importance that you tailor your application and address why you believe you are the ideal candidate according to what the employer is looking for before they consider the next applicant.