Applying for a Job: The Application, the CV and the Interview · seed 1 · A4, ink-friendly. The answer key prints on its own page for grown-ups.

Build an application for one job

Life Skills · Money & Finance · ages 16-18
Name ______________________   Date ____________

  1. What should you make easy to find near the start of your CV?

    • Your leisure activities and personal tastes, with examples.
    • Your contact details and relevant skills with evidence.
    • Your contact details and personal tastes with examples.

  2. An employer requests an application letter. What is its main purpose?

    • Explain how your experience fits the role's requirements.
    • Repeat your CV without linking it to this job.
    • Describe all your interests before mentioning which advertised role you want.

  3. One unchanged CV will always suit every different job advert equally well.

    Circle one:   True   False

  4. In an interview, Noor explains a missed deadline and how she asked for help. What should she add to complete her example?

    • A claim that the work became perfect, whether or not that actually happened.
    • What happened afterwards and what she learned.
    • A long account of teammates' faults without describing any outcome or learning.

  5. Asha's CV includes 'shared tasks and covered a teammate's absence' and 'checked sign-in names against a register'. An events advert asks for teamwork; an office advert asks for accurate records. Which plan puts the more relevant evidence first for each advert, keeping required details?

    • Events: register checks. Office: shared tasks, since record checks show teamwork and cover shows accurate records.
    • Use the shared-task example first for both adverts.
    • Events: shared tasks and cover. Office: sign-in register checks, matching each advert's requested skill.

  6. Your teacher knows your project work, and the employer accepts teachers as referees. What should you do before sharing the teacher's contact details?

    • Ask permission and give your teacher the advert, CV and deadline.
    • Share the details before asking permission.
    • List a stranger with a senior title because an impressive title proves that they know your project skills.

  7. You have an in-person interview next week. Which plan prepares for both the discussion and the visit?

    • Read about the role, prepare a team question and plan your journey.
    • Plan travel but leave the advert unread.
    • Focus on expensive clothes, skip employer research and prepare no questions about the work.

  8. An advert requests DOCX. Your CV says only 'helped customers', though you can describe a real example. Which revision follows the lesson?

    • Invent a sales percentage and send PDF instead of the employer's requested format.
    • Add decorative graphics and submit a file type the employer has not accepted.
    • Add a truthful example and send the requested DOCX file.
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Answer key

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  1. Your contact details and relevant skills with evidence. · Make contact information and relevant evidence easy to locate. There is no fixed one-minute reading rule for every employer.
  2. Explain how your experience fits the role's requirements. · The letter connects relevant experience to this job. It can explain a CV example without reproducing the entire CV.
  3. False · Different adverts can ask for different skills. Check each advert and adjust the emphasis of truthful examples where needed.
  4. What happened afterwards and what she learned. · Noor has described the situation and her action. She should finish with the actual result and learning, without inventing success.
  5. Events: shared tasks and cover. Office: sign-in register checks, matching each advert's requested skill. · Sharing tasks and covering a teammate supports teamwork. Checking names against a register supports accurate records. Give those examples priority in the events and office CVs respectively, while retaining required details.
  6. Ask permission and give your teacher the advert, CV and deadline. · The teacher meets the stated requirements for a referee. Ask for consent, give them the job information and check their preferred contact details before sharing them.
  7. Read about the role, prepare a team question and plan your journey. · Research and a genuine question prepare the discussion. Planning the journey prepares the practical arrangements.
  8. Add a truthful example and send the requested DOCX file. · A real example gives evidence without invented numbers. The advert's requested file format takes priority over a general preference for PDF.
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