© 2006 Australasian Training Academy Pty Ltd
ATA Work Guide
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Select words and phrases, and develop statements that emphasise your
strengths and capabilities and that reflect the requirements of the job,
interviewer and employer.
Use punctuation and conjunctions (words that join words or word-strings,
'and' being the most obvious example) to form elegant statements that
look well-balanced and are easy to read.
Select, adapt and compose your statements with care. Get help and
feedback (from positive people) to help you produce statements that
really work well for you.
When describing your experience and achievements, select examples
that are relevant to the the job vacancy, and relevant to the manner in
which the employer requires the job be performed.
Not all experience statements (or any of them, in the case of young
people at the start of their careers) need to be work-based. Look for non-
work experience in other parts of your life that provides evidence of what
the employer is seeking.
Construct your experience phrases so that they will demonstrate
experience and capabilities that are relevant to employer's job
requirements. Create a list of 5-7 key activities which closely match the
employer's needs for the job, and for which you can demonstrate
competence.
Decide what activities are relevant to you and the role, and then create
phrases which add context and scale to whichever of these basic
activities you choose to feature.
For example, if we take the activity 'planning', here's a phrase which
attaches some context and scale, in this case for a telesales manager:
"Planning and budgeting annual sales department activities for 10
telesales people."
Or for Managing, training and developing:
"Management, training and development of a consumer telesales team -
15 staff, 3,000 customers, £3m revenues." Or, for example, if the role
requires initiative and determination, and you have no work experience:
"Conception and implementation of major fund-raising initiative for
(whatever cause) rasing (value) in (timescale)."
Summary :
© 2006 Australasian Training Academy Pty Ltd ATA Work Guide 175 Select words and phrases, and develop statements that emphasise your strengths and capabilities and that reflect the requirements of the job, interviewer and employer. Construct your experience phrases so that they will demonstrate experience and capabilities that are relevant to employer's job requirements.
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