There are lots of applicants but only one you. Blue Sky Careers helps you stand out from the crowd.

Recruiters read hundreds of applications each day for various jobs. We've become experts in switching off to the fluffy, boring, irrelevant and unnecessary with the click of a button. Next comes the dutiful, or what I describe as bland, applications. They tick all the boxes for knowing and doing but reveal little about the person. Imagine what a dollop of personality could do to tip the scales of interest.

Introducing the spark

Nothing beats ambition and a willingness to get the job done. Anyone can have lofty desires and experiences but not everyone has the drive to make things happen. Action-based CVs have an inherent and tangible confidence and tempo. They have substance that lures the reader in. Pour a little personality over the top and it's a winner.

 ‘Uniquing’ you

Personality is how we think, feel, interact, and behave. It's the silent force that instinctively and intuitively guides and drives us to step forward, and include, collaborate, persist and care. A difficult thing for many of us to do is step outside of ourselves in describing our personality in a work sense. When someone asks, “What makes you tick?", a blank stare is often the response. Achievement counts for so much more when we can reveal the inner personal traits and values that power contribution. 

Standing out

At Blue Sky Careers, we celebrate and showcase your uniqueness. Your uniqueness is what you do, how you do it and the value you bring to the party. Our clients often comment that they feel an instant kindship with our candidates, purely through the way we profile and personalise applications. Work on mastering this art, and you'll be doing a great service to your career.

Let’s get started

Here are some tips to kick start that spark and energy:

• Try not to be obvious. Introduce and evidence key themes selectively and creatively. Use finesse, style, and clever phrasing and framing to position and present your skills, capabilities and achievements.
• Avoid clichés and overuse of objectives. If you have a particular strength, back it up and evidence it. Avoid using a long list of adjectives to describe yourself with nothing to substantiate them.
• One-sided applications that are ‘all about me’ fail to connect for obvious reasons.

Things to remember:

• Employment is mutual between employer and employee.
• Get in the headspace of your prospective employer's personality and culture.
• Identify and relate to the operating environment, broader stakeholders and workplace needs and expectations.
• Select and correlate your strategies, contributions and achievements to them.

Here are some quick ways that we identify and evidence unique personality powering achievement. Each of these situations would be followed by a ‘for instance’ to demonstrate a tangible example of achievement.

• Team player: Has won numerous awards for performance as a reliable and conscientious team member. Is always anticipating pressure points and on standby and flexible to fill in and shoulder the load when others are absent without notice.
• Resilience: Never gives up. No matter how submerged at work during times of critical delivery, is acknowledged by management as having the stamina and persistence to push through and deliver.
• Initiative: Pre-empts issues that obstruct initiatives and looks for opportunity for improvement. 
• Positivity: Injects positivity and appreciates every relationship, project and task. Readily states there is never a day that is too hard. A true source of energy and goodwill in the workplace.

So, the message is simple: keep it real, add some spark and be confident in your capability and value.

Let’s give a high five to personality.