BHP Billiton Nickel West

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BHP Billiton - Nickel West

• Job Hunting Made Easy
• Perry McKerlie, Senior Recruitment Advisor
• UWA Young Engineers - 1 August 2006

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Identifying Your Purpose

• Find the right job
• Be focused and specific
• Dont take a scattergun approach

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Your Skills

• Realistically assess your skills
• Professional Objective General Manager / Plant
  Manager / Operations Manager/Environmental
  Manager
• Start Date September 2004-Current
• Position Service Technician 
• Dont apply for jobs on which you have no real
  claim

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The Recruiter

• Understand their role
• People for jobs, not jobs for people
• Important part of the process
• They share information good and bad!

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The Cover Letter

• To send or not to send?
• Unique and enticing cover letter?
• The sports results
• Keep it brief

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Your Resume

• A sales document
• The product is YOU
• One size fits all?
• Whats Hot and Whats Not

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Do

• Keep it reasonably brief
• Make it easy to find the key information
• List education/qualifications at the back
• Use MS Word format

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Dont

• Use photographs

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Dont

• Use cartoons
• Strengths

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Dont

• Use coloured writing
• Send URL.links.instead.of.a.resume
• Password protect your resume!
• Begin your resume with your personal attributes
  please!

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Bloopers

• MARITAL STATUS Girlfriend / fiance
• Recruiter comment
• Poor bloke...how does he keep them both happy?
  And one of thems a guy!!!

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Bloopers

• Education/Qualifications
• Institutionpublic school
• City/CountryWestern Australia
• Qualificationsachievment cirtificate
• Recruiter comment
• Obviously didn't include a spelling test!

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Email

• Read the how to apply instructions
• Businesslike email address
• bubbaluvsbabybelle_at_hotmail.com
• Son_of_Satan_with_a_Horny_Devil_at_hotmail.com

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The Phone Call

• Ask specific questions
• Speak your name clearly
• Phone numbers slowly, clearly, repeat
• Voicemail messages

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Summary

• Many traps
• Be prepared
• Treat it as your job
• Know the product
• Understand the process
• Have a clear desired outcome
• Be patient

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