HOW TO MAKE PROSPECTIVE EMPLOYER CONSIDER YOUR APPLICATION FOR ONLINE EMPLOYMENT

 You have been worried about low response to your numerous online job application submitted.  Reasons for this could not be unconnected to numerous changes that have taken place in the labour market where supply of labor force is greater than demand due to global economic crisis. Many companies are folding up due to high cost of production and information technological development that has reduced the number of work force needed for operation.  This has made demand for labor highly competitive therefore give room for only the best prepared resume and letter cover to scale through shortlisting for interview.  This is why the tips of this write up would provide the necessary solution to dearth of invitation for interview; because it is only when you are invited for interview that you will be thinking of getting the job.  Here are the tips for your
consideration:

• Address the cover letter to the person who advertises the job if identified and pay attention to your spelling and grammar.
• Make the job target of your resume
  Millions of job seekers worldwide are eyeing that post therefore for your resume to stand out as one of the best to attract invitation make each resume for each job.
• Make sure you are qualified for the job post before applying.
• Also ensure that your qualifications and experience are in agreement with what the prospective employer is looking for.
• In the arrangement of your experience in the resume start from the most important job description to the least for the post.
• Some employers have already provided a database where the prospective employee would input his or her details.  While providing these, you should consider the under listed tips:

• According to one of the Human Resources Expert, Hellmann: ‘avoid giving details information by cleverly saying “to be provided later”.  For instance, Hellmann says further ‘it is unfear to be discussing compensation when you have not even been invited for interview instead say to be discussed later.  Same goes for current employment as a young graduate without any experience or current employment simply put to be provided later.   Similar thing should be done with request for ‘current post’ where you can refer them to your resume.
• If responding to question like job description, you must ensure that it does not contain any error.
• Let your resume carry keywords that come from job target.  For example if the job ad is requesting for experience in portfolio analysis, your resume should have word portfolio analysis because is going to play  a very important role in the screening of application where tool like automated tracking system is employed to screen the resume. Your resume that comply with the keyword would not be left out.
• It is also important to include a specific cover letter with your application in a situation where employer allows it. Make it in such a way that it would be very difficult to ignore
• Address the job requirements, if possible, use bullet to list your accomplishments.
• Find a way of connecting to the advertiser of that post using networking tools like Facebook, LinkedIn and Phone to follow up your application.  You can also inform friends and family members to connect you with anybody that might be of help in the company.  It often works out.  For instance, Hellmann while emphasizing the importance of personal contact as a follow up to turn impossibility to possibility reiterated the experience of one of his clients while responding to online job where, initially he did not get favorable reply had to write another cover letter after getting contact address of the advertiser from friend and follow up with phone calls.  Three days later he was invited for interview and today is one of their staff.

I am sure by the time you start adopting some of the tips recommended here there would be a change in response to your application for on line job