Why is a personal statement usually more important than a CV?
Recruiters face hundreds of CVs during a hiring and recruiting phase, often under high time pressure. That’s why applications that briefly describe the most important required skills and experiences in 5-6 sentences, with reference to the relevant project experiences and the role in which these skills and experiences were applied and possibly new ones gained, stand out.
What is the best way to proceed when writing the personal statement?
Certainly, the must-have requirements are almost all to be fulfilled and also to be mentioned in a personal statement with reference to the role and the concrete project in which one was active and had successfully fulfilled these requirements.
In addition, one increases the chances if another “nice-to-have” skill or experience is also mentioned in the personal statement with concrete project references and activity descriptions. If it is not directly obvious from the project offer which are the Must-Have and Nice-To-Have requirements, one could derive this distinction from the project title.
Our experience shows that with 80% coverage of the skills and experience required in the project offer in the personal statement, the enclosed CV is only briefly analyzed as confirmation of the personal statement. This speeds up the recruiting process considerably and the recruiter gets a positive picture of you in advance through your Personal Statement alone.
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