Usually the CV is the primary communication that the potential employer or interviewer has with an applicant. While applying for jobs in the UAE, consider your CV as your own advertisement that displays what you are all about in a simple and clear manner that gain the interviewer’s interest and hold his attention.
Here are the top tips for writing the perfect CV for jobs in the UAE:
- Begin the CV with your own private details like:
Complete name
Residential address
Nationality
Marital Status (The majority of workers in UAE are expatriate so your marital status provides the recruiter a clear image that if you are recruited, you will be eligible for a salary package to sustain your family as well).
Date of Birth (It is essential to mention the date of birth in UAE as specific age limit is relevant for visa authorization).
- Educational Qualifications: Be precise about your education including the university, course you finished and graduation date. Also, tell about your professional credentials along with the date of completion and the awards that you obtained.
- Professional Experience: Showcase your very recent position first. Next go sequentially backwards (mention the dates) providing little space to previous jobs. Wherever possible mention the experience significant to a specific position and every time state your achievements and responsibilities so that employers can fast recognize how you can help grow their business.
- Computer skills: It is essential to specify your expertise on the computer packages that are important to your dream job that you aspire for.
- Fluency in Languages: In the Middle East, people speak Arabic, Hindi, Urdu, English and other languages extensively. You should certainly mention your competency in any language that you possess.
- Remain positive: Utilize positive action phrases and words in your cover letter. Add attainments for all of your posts and do not be scared to proudly record them.
- Precision and subject matter: grammatical mistakes, spelling errors, and wrong dates give a bad feeling. Therefore properly verify to make sure that you have complete accuracy.
These top tips for writing the perfect CV will help you not only in getting the interview invitation but also land your dream job.
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About competency-based recruitment
Competency based recruitment is a method that you can use to conduct interviews more successfully. This recruitment method involves assessing all applicants on a stringent set of prearranged yardsticks and discovers their real aptitude to do the work.
Applicants are told to explain their behavior in accordance with:
The circumstance in which it happened
The action taken by them
The consequence
Some example of competency based recruitment questions are given below:
- Tell me about an occasion when you faced a nerve-racking position that showed your surviving skills?
- Provide a particular instance of a period when you applied excellent wisdom and reason in resolving a problem?
- Provide an instance of a period when you fixed a goal and were successful in attaining it?
- Provide me a particular instance of a period when you had to obey to a policy to which you did not consent?
- Describe an occasion when you had to go over and above the line of duty so as to get a work completed?
- Speak about an occasion when you had too much work to do and you were forced to prioritize your duties?
- What is your usual way of handling conflict? Provide an example?
- Speak about an occasion when you successfully dealt with another individual even though that person had not directly admired you or vice versa?
- Provide an instance when you took the initiative and became the forerunner?
- Speak about a current situation where you had to handle a very distressed co-worker or customer?
- Provide an instance of an occasion when you applied your information-gathering skills to resolve a problem?
Competency based recruitment questions are varied and depend mainly on the level of the position applied for along with the business vertical.
As an interviewer, practice will make you perfect. The more you refine your interviewing skills, the further successful you will be in employing the right applicant for the job.
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