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Ugh! It’s Monday and you have to go into that job you absolutely detest. Some days you can literally feel the energy being sucked out of you.

I was recently recruiting for an international job vacancy where very good English was required. The standard of applicants was very high, but one person stood out - for the wrong reasons.

A chap from portugal sent me the following cover letter:

You have excellent academic acheivements, you work well in a team, you work equally well on your own, you are very good at remembering key phrases to use in interviews, you have good computer skills (you know how to open word and send an email)

SO WHAT?

So does everyone else. Why you? Why should I employ you, when you say the exact same things as everyone else, when you wear the same clothes as everyone else, when your curriculum is as tedious to read as everyone else? Have you any idea how boring it is recruiting people? Have you any idea how dull it is to hear everyone giving the same stock answers that their career advisors told them to say?

Things are changing, keep up.

A lot of people I have spoken with about finding a job recently think there are hardly any jobs available thanks to the economic crisis, and don´t really believe they will find one.

They go through the motions of trying to find employment, sign up to a few job sites, maybe get called to the odd interview, which they attend with a resignation that they will never get the job as there are so many other candidates, who are surely better qualified and have more experience. But not us! We are smart, and it is precisely this common air of doom about the economy that we shall leverage to damned well get ourselves a job, and a good one at that!