An application is a performance, with which the applicant wants to convince the addressee of the fact that he is suitable for a certain task. The most frequent case is the application addressed to an enterprise around job, practical course or another place.

In the broader sense the term covers also the request for admission to a university or a university and the application of a city or a country around delivering cultural or sporty large events.

Cause

Applications are frequently the answer to a recruitment advertising or a job advertisement, in which the task and the requirements are described to the future place owner. With a Initiativbewerbung however the applicant makes the first step, because he an open place assumed or because he wants to forestall a recruitment advertising and the competition which can be expected thereby. A Initiativbewerbung is a short application mostly at the same time.

Components of the application

A complete application consists of writing down, personal record and appendix. Beyond that some applicants use a third side, in which they represent their motivation or qualification somewhat in more detail.

Write down

Writing down is usually briefly and concisely held and describes the qualification and motivation of the applicant in the context to the applied place. It is to obtain a first impression of the applicant and is usually limited to the extent of a DIN-A4-Seite.

With technical occupations the qualification can be represented as technical profile clearly. In this profile one describes, one controlled which tools (e.g. programming languages) and gained in which projects one with them experiences.

One should pay attention adapted language to the enterprise/the work when writing down. This can vary much, however it is to be done E-post office"” generally advisable without colloquial language and "“pseudomodern"” expressions, e.g. to "“in place of "“E-Mail"”.

Personal record

The personal record contains the biographic data the applicant. Beside the personal data it offers information about the training and the vocational career/development. Besides special qualifications can (like foreign languages or computer knowledge) as well as personal interests to be represented.

If a third side is used, the special qualifications in this are described.

The personal record is developed usually in tabular form and shows the stations of the training and the professional activity in chronological or reverse order. In special cases a handwritten and/or out-formulated personal record can be desired.

Third side

The term third side is used both and formal classification point in the order writing down, personal record, third side and appendix like also as independent contentwise designation.

Third side

The third side is a new feature, which is only used for the 90's more frequently in applications. It is available beside writing down and personal record as the further side for the representation of the own person, motivation, qualification or other personal characteristics. Are used as headings for example: "“Which you should know still about me"” or "“my motivation"”.

The use of the third side is disputed. Some personnel responsible person do not see they gladly, because them permit the applicant to represent its advantages in detail beyond the usual conventions what as unfair advantage opposite competitors is evaluated. Others however see the chance in the third side to experience somewhat more over the applicant.

Authority profile

The authority profile, also qualification profile mentioned, goes another way than the so-called third side. In the authority profile the specialized knowledge, the abilities - also key qualifications mentioned - are confronted personal successes and Verantwortungen to the respective requirement profile of the setting of tasks for a job advertisement - quasi mirror-image -. It is to be provided therefore for each application individually.

The sequence of the arrangement is determined thereby by the importance of the terms or by the structure of the employment offered. The substantial classification points are specialized technical, method authority, social authority and personal authority. Thus the ability is to be demonstrated to be able to adjust itself to the enterprise and the position.

If the authority profile is used, the possibility, (innovative) the personal record results again in its classical, strictly chronological form of providing.

Appendix

In the appendix the applicant arranges all documents, which are for the qualification of importance. That applies particularly to documents, which occupy the conclusion of training, thus above all the last school report and the document, with which the professional training can be proven. Applicants with professional experience attach all (or only the relevant) references. Finally further proofs can be attached like the driving licence or a language diploma, if for the place of importance is.

The documents are nearly never dispatched today as original or certified copy. With an electronic application that is anyway not possible and with a written application sends to applicant simple copies, if not expressly another form is desired.

In a short application the appendix is omitted.

Forms

Written application

If one is required "„written application "“, with it an application is meant in Papierform, whose components are connected frequently in an application briefcase. This form of the application is the most expensive and most complex; it requires thinking about the appropriate type of paper (weight, quality), the layout (in Germany usually adapted to DIN 5008), the pressure quality (laser printer, ink jet printer) and the covering (complex application briefcase or plastic temporary fastener). Finally it is to be made certain that the documents do not arouse the impression of repeated use, which can happen in particular by customs traces (break in paper or covering) easily and allegedly often to the refusal of the application for formal reasons leads.

E-Mail application

The application by E-Mail is a simple and fast alternative to the written application. Because of the electronic transmission some formalities are dispensable. So writing down can be written regularly as usual E-Mail text, whereby then the conventions of E-Mail traffic apply. The remaining part of the application is usually along-dispatched as appendix of file; the virus security of the file types requires special attention. As file format ever more the pdf format becomes generally accepted, which can be permitted a graphically responding and uniform organization of the layout and be easily opened with free of charge available programs practically by each computer user.

Some applicants send away also a writing down as pdf file; in the actual E-Mail text an additional greeting text is then formulated, which refers to contents of the appendix.

For reasons of the compatibility the actual E-Mail text is usually dispatched in the simple title format. To the plants written by the applicant (personal record, third side) apply the conventions of the written application. The further plants (certifications) are made electronically available than Scan.

Contrary to the written application the E-Mail application is not so easily accepted, so that applicants should clarify before whether and in which form a E-Mail application is desired.

On-line application

On-line application one calls documents, which are made available over Internet by an applicant on application homepage and thus permanently on-line are callable. On-line application differs in relation to the conventional application by the possibility of the electronic subsequent treatment, the permanent, world-wide availability, as well as by multimedia presentation possibilities.

On-line application is meanwhile to a large extent accepted. To this result a study of the market researcher Easyquest came (2005). The study refers to enterprises in the European States of Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Norway, Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium. From 1635 personnel managers of all business sizes approx. 50% for the application in digital form discussion themselves. The simpler processing of digital applications in the internal use was emphasized.

Likewise as on-line application also a form is designated, which of the place offerer is made available on its homepage, in order to seize the data of the applicants. However it does not act in the actual sense around an on-line application, since the applicant data are sent only via Formmailer, thus only by E-Mail exclusively to the place-writing out, thus not permanently for place-writing out further understanding is here. In such a way seized data facilitate the evaluation substantially. The disadvantage for the applicant is in the fact that in on-line application forms no area for a creative presentation remains. Beyond that an on-line application form must again and again again be filled out from application to application, which insignificant expenditure of time does not represent.

Selective procedure

Sometimes special selective procedures, Assessment centers so mentioned, are accomplished, in order to receive so specific characteristic data from and over the applicants to. Also aptitude tests are partly accomplished.

Application discussion

The organization can invite an applicant after an application to an application discussion. In addition, that is the rule with the application in a company, ever more by universities is maintained.

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