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Are you ready for a job? There are many things that you need to do before you apply. Each of these things is crucial to your success in getting selected. Using sample resume cover letters and CV templates are among them. Let us see what the main ingredients are that make a winning job application.

The Preliminaries

Before you apply for that much coveted job, you need to do many things that would help you a great application. Just crisp business language and great qualifications are not enough to get yourself a call for the interview. These are important but the critical aspects are listed below:

  1. Researching the company – you need to know how the company came into existence; what has been its focus; what are its goals; what are its expansion plans; what are its branches and diversification in the business; what is its niche in the market, and so on. In other words, you need to know as much as there is to know about the company before you even apply for the job advertised.

  1. Research the job – once you know about the company you need to find out about what the job advertised really entails. This would be a little trickier than finding out about the company’s background. You need to visit the place and talk to a few employees regarding the said job and gather as much information as you could about it. Very often the receptionist is quite knowledgeable on the matter and would be willing to let you know the details if asked politely.

  1. Matching your strengths to the job and company – now that you have the exact picture you would need to look carefully at your own strengths and then compare these to what would be required by the job and the company. You would need to list your qualifications, skills and experience in such a manner that they would seem cut specifically for the job advertised. The better the match between the job and your strengths the higher is the possibility of you getting an interview call.

  1. Writing the application – an application is made of two parts, i.e. the CV and the cover letter.

    1. The CV - carefully search on the Net for CV templates and practice on a few of them. Many job websites offer free advice and guidelines on how you should write a great CV. Read extensively and if necessary hire a professional placement agency which could help you focus your efforts optimally.

    2. The cover letter – there are plenty of sample resume cover letters out there (on the Net) for free. All you need is to download it and adapt it to your requirements. Most of the sample resume cover letters are free, though not all the free sample resume cover letters are the best for you. You need to research well on the style and the format these use before making up your mind which one to use.