Application Form Reviewing
Question: What percentage of candidates are rejected at the application stage of the assessment process?
Answer: Approximately 70%
Last year Lloyds TSB received 3,600 applications for their graduate schemes. Of these, only 30% gave appropriate responses to the questions on their application forms - the other 70% (over 2,500 people) were rejected within seconds, missing out on interviews, assessment days and job offers.
Question: Why do you need to use an application review service?
Answer: Getting an interview is by far the hardest part of the assessment process. If you can successfully get to the interview stage of assessment, you are much more likely to get a job offer.
If you are applying for lots of jobs but just not getting invited to interviews, it is highly likely that your job applications are just not good enough to be taken seriously by graduate recruiters.
If you want to compete with the top 30% of graduates who are getting invited for interviews and assessment days, you need to make great job applications. Doing this without industry experience and little understanding of the skills and competencies graduate recruiters are looking for, is exceedingly difficult.
Application Review Services offer graduates the chance for their applications to be checked, reviewed, edited and enhanced, by trained graduate recruiters who understand employer’s selection procedures and know how to get interviews at the best firms in industries such as Accounting, Consulting, Investment Banking and Law.
Why Candidates Make Mistakes on Application Forms
[Edit]There are three main reasons why candidates make mistakes when completing application forms:
- Lack of experience - not understanding what is required when filling out application forms.
- Misunderstanding questions - providing responses that fail to answer the questions asked.
- Carelessness - spelling mistakes, poor punctuation, bad grammar, completing forms too fast.
If candidates knew exactly what recruiters were looking for, their application forms would be very different. WikiJob's Application Review Service makes it possible for candidates to have a trained recruiter with experience in the industry you are applying to, check, review, edit and enhance your applications, dramatically improving your chances of getting interviews.
Common Job Application Form Mistakes
[Edit]The most common mistakes applicants make on their application forms are:
- Personal details – the personal details section of application forms is by far the easiest section to complete, but many candidates forget to be professional. Your email address, for example, should be your name alone.
- Cutting and pasting irrelevant information – cutting and pasting answers or details from one application to another may seem like an easy way to save time, but in practice it is far too easy to paste details which aren’t relevant to the job you are now applying for.
- Poor formatting, spelling and structure – it is really difficult to read an application form if it is poorly presented. Correct use of capital letters, full stops and proper spelling are extremely important.
- Misunderstanding competency based questions – many candidates misunderstand what is required of them when answering competency based questions. You should use pertinent examples from your life, and answer the question asked – no more, no less.
- Inappropriate answers - make sure you read to the end of each question on your application form and are certain you understand what is being asked of you. Candidates whose answers do not relate to the question asked will be rejected.
- Gradual deterioration in quality throughout application form – candidates often make strong starts to their application forms, but the quality of their answers deteriorates towards the end of their application. Make sure you stay focused throughout your application. Every response you give is important.
If you’re struggling to get interviews, and you want to be in the top 30% of applicants who get the chance to compete for the very best jobs, perhaps you should consider the WikiJob Application Review Service.
What the WikiJob Application Review Service Does
[Edit]The WikiJob Application Review Service cannot guarantee to get you more interviews, but can guarantee to get your job applications to the standard required for interview selection.
Our trained recruiters will check, review, edit and enhance your work, tailoring your application answers to the specific requirements employers are looking for from graduate level candidates.
The WikiJob Application Review Service has been designed to improve every aspect of your application:
- Spelling and punctuation
- Sentence structure and grammar
- Professionalism of responses
- Quality of answers
- Targeting personal details and personality questions to specific companies and industries
- Competency questions
- Effectively communicating your skills and ability to do the job
Our service gives candidates piece of mind that their applications are as good as they can possibly be.
Purchase the WikiJob Application Review Service
[Edit]WikiJob offers two standards of Application Review Service, both of which are available for either a single question from an application form or an entire application form:
- BASIC (check + review)
- ADVANCED (check + review + edit + enhance)
Our trained advisers will help you with all types of application issues for specific questions such as: competency based questions, career motivation questions, commercial awareness questions, personal experience questions and anything else that may come up too!
Basic Service
[Edit]The Basic Application Review Service will provide you with a comprehensive review of your application, including indications of areas that need improvement and suggestions for how to best make these improvements. Any grammatical, spelling or structural errors spotted in your application will be noted and explained.
This service provides an answer to the question “is my application good enough to get an interview from this employer?”
- Single Question - £8.99
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- Whole Application - £25.99
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Advanced Service
[Edit]The Advanced Application Editing Service provides you with a comprehensive review and a complete edit of your application. Your application will be worked on by a trained recruiter with specific insider knowledge of the industry you are applying to and edited up to the level required to get an interview.
Have your application enhanced and tailored for success. This service will improve your chances of getting an interview!
- Single Question - £15.99
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- Whole Application - £69.99
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The full application review service is designed to be an advanced checking and/or editing service for particular applications that a candidate may be struggling with, or applications for companies at which an applicant wants the best possible chance of obtaining an interview.
Please note: this is not a job application answer writing service but a review and editing service. We can and will check, review, edit and improve your job applications, but we will not write your answers from scratch!
After Purchase
[Edit]After you have purchased one of the WikiJob Application Review Services, you will be contacted by email and will need to forward your job application form question(s) and answer(s) to our application review adviser. After a short discussion, your application will be improved and delivered electronically, within five working days.
Further Information
[Edit]For more information about any of WikiJob's CV Services, please email - CV@WikiJob.co.uk.
Delivery
[Edit]Your CV will be delivered electronically within five working days.
Privacy
[Edit]We will not share your application details or personal details with anyone. If you are worried about your personal information, feel free to delete these details from your CV when sent.
