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JOB VACANCIES AREA ... Applying for jobs

The first steps
Once you have found a suitable job vacancy in our listings is to apply to the relevant business who will then either send you an application form or arrange an interview. When looking through our job vacancy listings you will notice that some businesses prefer to be contacted via e-mail whereas others prefer to be contacted via telephone or even by post. First impressions count, and the first contact with your potential new employer should be one that encourages the employer to proceed further by offering you an application or interview.
Contacting by telephone 
If the relevant job vacancy listing requires you to telephone for further details always be polite and courteous in your conversation and where possible avoid shouting. If you are telephoning via a mobile phone and you are in a public place find somewhere quiet where you will not be disturbed or reception is bad. There is nothing worse than trying to have a conversation with somebody who keeps getting cut-off or has been drowned out by a background noise.
Contacting by e-mail 
If the relevant job vacancy listing requires you to e-mail your details so that the company may contact you at their convenience or send you application forms you will need to prepare a simple introductory e-mail with full details. Keep the e-mail short, straight to the point, and easy to read, remember that this is just an introductory e-mail for further details.
Contacting by post 
If the relevant job vacancy listing requires you to send your details and some times CV via post, you will need to prepare an introductory letter. Once again keep the letter short, straight to the point, clearly written, on good quality paper and include all the details that you have been asked to provide.

JOB VACANCIES AREA ... Completing application forms

Once you have applied
And introduced to yourself to a potential employer you may then be required to complete a job application form either sent to you or at your interview. Although not all employers ask applicants to complete application forms, many large companies still do. The main reason for this is so that the employer can extract additional information from applicants that they would not have necessarily included in their CVs such as criminal record details and possible gaps in employment history.
Also by completing an application thoroughly, an employer will be able to judge whether you can complete a given task and asses your approach to that given task. Applications are also used to hold will details on file should future job vacancies become available. The employer will then be able to match your application to future vacancies and reduce the need for the employer to advertise the job. 
A few things to consider 
Before you start to compete your application take a few minutes to read through it thoroughly before you start completing it. Complete the answers on a rough piece of paper if you are doing it at home, or photocopy it, and then after checking your spellings, punctuation and answers proceed to fill in the form. If you have previously prepared a CV you can use the information in it to help complete the application. Make sure that all questions are completed, even if the question is not relevant to you by stating that it is "not applicable". Finally, Don't forget to keep copy for your own records as you may not be successful on this occasion and will need to look at where your application went wrong.

Data Protection Act
All employers are required to keep your information supplied in your application, by e-mail, by post or any other method strictly confidential and only for the purposes of recruitment under the Data Protection Act.

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