This is good advice and can be expanded outside software developers as you say. It’s also great to see you offering CV help!
As someone who’s hired a decent number of people, the one caveat I would add is that this will be really useful to follow as above if you are applying for a job where there is a degree of discretion among decision-makers around what they’re assessing. It’s less immediately applicable, but still potentially valuable, if the initial selection is based solely on scoring against predefined criteria. Sometimes this will be explicit (‘applications will be assessed against the person specification’), sometimes implicit. This seems to happen less often for EA jobs, but I’m sure it does happen for at least some.
At any rate, if it’s just about criteria, your task is then to list out all the criteria from the job pack, tick them off when you’ve put them in the application, read them back, think ‘would I at least be scored as meeting expectations on this and ideally exceeding them?‘, and update accordingly. In which case, this sort of approach can help you move up to ‘exceeds expectations’ on a criterion if you can show you can hit it from multiple angles, e.g. in both work and personal life. It could also help you get a longlist that you could pick and choose from for those types of applications and help at interview...
This is good advice and can be expanded outside software developers as you say. It’s also great to see you offering CV help!
As someone who’s hired a decent number of people, the one caveat I would add is that this will be really useful to follow as above if you are applying for a job where there is a degree of discretion among decision-makers around what they’re assessing. It’s less immediately applicable, but still potentially valuable, if the initial selection is based solely on scoring against predefined criteria. Sometimes this will be explicit (‘applications will be assessed against the person specification’), sometimes implicit. This seems to happen less often for EA jobs, but I’m sure it does happen for at least some.
At any rate, if it’s just about criteria, your task is then to list out all the criteria from the job pack, tick them off when you’ve put them in the application, read them back, think ‘would I at least be scored as meeting expectations on this and ideally exceeding them?‘, and update accordingly. In which case, this sort of approach can help you move up to ‘exceeds expectations’ on a criterion if you can show you can hit it from multiple angles, e.g. in both work and personal life. It could also help you get a longlist that you could pick and choose from for those types of applications and help at interview...