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Book - How to Write and Talk to Selection Criteria

The fifth edition is designed for adult career changers, public servants, trainees and graduates interested in progressing their career in government.

70 more pages in improved larger B5 format

New chapters offering:

• 50 ideas for managing your career
• how to make sense of capability frameworks, with 61 key terms explained
• 7 questions for interpreting a job context so you show a close job fit
• 10 mistakes people make in writing resumes and what to do about them
• how to anticipate what interview questions you could be asked
• an extended career case study illustrating job-specific and capability-based applications

Nationally recognised as 'the bible' on this subject. Best seller since 1996.

Based on a sense-making framework called Mental Nutrition, and a career management perspective, this updated edition focuses on how to manage your public service career, how to write evidence-based, results-focused, job-matched resumes and applications and how to present a convincing case at a job interview.