How competitive are you in job market? Get hired tips

I am just wanting to share some tips to make yourself marketable in job database and to make you stand out in billions of job applicants.

1. Impression matters- Cover Letter - relevant to the job description of the mentioned post. Do some research on the company and put some key words there so that it'll impressed the recruitment team.

2. What can do besides your routine job in your present company (if you are still employed)? Would you have volunteered to help out a committee? or to do a Project that is gonna brush your CV or resume? Are you part of the team to solve a 'mystery' in your company? Can you do other things besides what you are paid for? Well, do it rite away. This is some last minute work and will gonna be the key point to highlight your qualities in the job interviews.

3. Are you good in writing, journals, technical paper? if you are, this is the plus to get hired too. Employers like to hire staffs who are skilled and with interested in various area. You can portray the qualities by have them written down somewhere and best if it is publicized/recognised.

4. Are you part of the social member? Charity, Professional Association, etc. Well, the rest.. you should be able to guess what i mean here. if you don't, this point could be written down in your CV too. Impressive biodata. for instance, Rotaract, Leo, Chesire, WorldVision, Toastmasters.

5. Finally, have you tried to contact your University? Perhaps that there's some recommended employers for you. Try talk to them. Browse the Uni's website and you should get some job database. For instance, USQ.