4 Possible Reasons You Aren’t Getting Any Interviews

Hi guys, I am back again, and I am that HR Specialist
cum CV writer with over a decade’s experience. I am
here to continue giving insider tips on what goes on
at the back-end after we’ve received thousands of
applications from zealous job seekers.
Have you ever had an experience like this?
- You see a job role you are well qualified for
- Then you decide to apply
- You pick your CV and quickly fill out the necessary
details on the job search form
- You scribble down some words as your cover letter.
- Then you click the send button and check your
Email every day, hoping to get a call back – yet
nothing happens.
In most cases, the job advert might have come with
a lucrative salary, and you wouldn’t want to be left
out. Days turn into weeks, weeks into months, and
yet you hear nothing from the advertisers of the job.
Boom!!! Game over for you on that job.
This same thing happens to you on other job adverts,
and you assume that you are under attack from your
village kindred. This might be the last time I will tell
you this, so make sure you take action.
I will show you several reasons why you don’t get
interviews after submitting your applications. It might
be simple to you, but you should find a way to fix it
ASAP.
1. Your CV looks like a Battleground
When I mean battleground, I mean it literally. Most
simply don’t know how to write a CV; and instead of
employing the services of a professional CV writer,
they go ahead to just write that way.
You don’t play trial and error with something as
important as your CV which is your professional
personality on paper. Writing of CV should have a
very clear format with specific procedures.
When I pick up a CV, there are certain areas I look
out for. If I can’t capture it within the first 5 secs, I
drop the CV so fast. This might actually be one of the
reasons why you don’t get interviews after your job
applications.
2. Downloading Sample Formats from the
Internet
The same format you are about downloading has
been downloaded by several other users. These same
users will apply for the same job – in most cases, and
we Human Resource Managers will get the same CV
format from several people.
So remember; before you check up on Google, other
people have done the same and the same format is
getting saturated.
3. Writing your CV with a mobile phone
If you don’t have a laptop to help draft your CV, I
encourage you to get someone to help you do it.
Unless you’re comfortable getting a job as a bar man,
then you should stop reading and focus on other
things.
No Human Resource Manager opens a CV with his
phone. The truth is that when you format a CV with
a mobile phone, the layout comes out completely
haggard when viewed from a computer.
N.B: Please don’t ask a cyber café girl to help you
design a CV; they have little or no idea of the 7-
seconds rule of crafting a CV. I suggest you employ
the services of a professional to help you to do
justice to it.
4. Your CV isn’t tailored to any Job Role
Most times when I pick up CVs from my desk to
scrutinize, I see CVs that has more than 7 job roles in
it. When you do this, it simply means one thing; “You
don’t come out as a professional in any career sector.”
And unless you are pretty luck, no one would send
you an invite for an interview.
You should be a master of a job sector in your CV,
that make you come out as a pro in the eyes of
employers.
Here is a quick question: “Would you hire a jack of all
trade for an important position, or an expert in such
position?” Your answer is as good as mine. The same
way you feel are exactly the same way employers
feel when they see such a resume.
Getting interview invites should be the least worries
of any job seeker. But if your Professional Personality
(CV) isn’t good looking, you may have a hard time
scaling through. I have written and I have seen
exceptional CVs, and I believe you deserve one.

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