Employers ask for a great deal of information about potential employees. This is particularly true when the application involves a standardized form that involves ticking boxes and filling in blanks. While you are probably happy to provide answers to most of the questions asked of you, there might be certain questions you don’t want to …
Once upon a time, people sent off job applications at the post office and then had to wait to receive a letter of response in the mail. They would be sent a job offer, a rejection, or an invitation to an interview. Now when we apply for a job, we can usually get regular updates …
Applying for jobs can be intimidating. When hiring managers write advertise vacant positions, they often use Business English jargon and field-specific terminology, which can be difficult to understand. Fortunately, there’s plenty of advice available to help you get to grips with the professional lingo of application forms and job descriptions. Maybe you are confused by …
If you are applying for a job in the U.S. federal government or at a private company that is regularly contracted by the government, the job posting might state that applicants need to have national security clearance. If your first thought is, “what on earth is that?” you aren’t alone. But the fact that you …
Filling out a job application can be stressful for many different reasons. First, you might be worried about making a mistake on it or whether or not you will get the job. Then there are the questions on it that aren’t clear or the use of words or phrases that you don’t recognize. This might …
Seeking a career opportunity can be a physically, mentally, and emotionally draining activity, for it entails constant, active participation from the applicant. Spilling more fuel to the fire, job application statuses can sometimes be linguistically murky that they become a source of apprehension among desperately hopeful candidates. To make sense of this concern, our article …
If you’re filling out a job application and you’ve been asked for “course of study,” what does it mean? You might assume it means what you studied in college, but you may not be sure, and what if you didn’t attend or finish college. This can seem like a confusing question, but your potential employer …
There you are, filling out a job application when you run across a whole section you don’t understand. Filling out job applications is a high-stress activity on its own, and this can increase that stress. If you’ve just been asked for information for an MVR, you may wonder what it means and what the scope …
No one really enjoys filling out job applications. It’s a task that can be both tedious and stressful because you are asked for a lot of specific information and it can be easy to make small errors that could jeopardize your chances of getting called for an interview. It doesn’t help that job applications often …