UK Applicants Summer 2014

Thanks for the info You will manage fine to cut it down!

Hey Evetaire, adc and Jane!

It's getting exciting now that more people are replying on these forums

 

Hey JennieLouise I'm glad to share the excitement, I've only actually told my nan about it because i don't want to jinx :-[ it & if i told my friends i'd never shut up about :-X so it's great to come on here and share my excitement/nerves!

So given the fact Yummy jobs will be launching a new website and application system, does this mean that the application layout and question may change?

 

Hi to all the newcomers!!! Introduce yourselves! I'm Jason

I expect you will still need the full CV and covering letter...the differences will be with the online profile i'm guessing......so there may be a few changes to the info you have to type out in the boxes they give you.

We'll just have to wait and see! (I'm fed up with waiting already...and the actual process hasn't even started yet!! : )

And as for my CV JennieLouise, i'm currently 3 lines over the 2 page limit, and struggling to remove any more! That excludes references too!

 

Hey Jason & others! My name is Eve I'm 20 (21 on Friday!! ;D) I'm originally from London but study Media and communications at Canterbury Christ Church University.

 

I've done the exact same thing as you! I haven't mentioned it to any of my friends or anything either as I know I'll also keep going on about it and keep getting worried I'll jinx it I've mentioned it to my parents in passing but stressed that it's unlikely that I'll actually get through or anything, otherwise they'll probably keep asking me about it, which just makes me more nervous

Anyway Hi everyone! I'm Alex, I've just turned 20 a few days ago and am studying Comparative Literature at Kent

By the way with regards to a cover letter, is everyone attaching it to their cv or just putting it in the motivation box? (Assuming that box doesn't change drastically when the applications open!) And for the people who are adding it on the cv is that included in the 2 page limit? Or is it 2 pages maximum for the cv and then a page on top for the cover letter? Totalling at 3 pages?

Sorry for all the questions ;D

 

Hi Eve (love that name!) and Alex! I think i posted this before, but it's probably been lost in a sea of excited posts ....i'm Jason, 20, a trainee Primary School teacher at the University of Winchester.

I hate tempting fate too....but my parents know, and I've had to tell uni to get permission to have my dissertation proposal fast tracked so I could get into school to research it before June.....you can't get more "tempting fate" than that, but unfortunately it had to be done!

As for the cover letter....Yummy Jobs have said it should be attached to the same document as the CV and uploaded as one, and it's in addition to the CV...mine is three pages in total...2 for the CV (YES FINALLY! ) and 1 for the cover letter

 

Ah right okay thanks for that
Are you writing something different for your cover letter to what you'll put in the 'motivation' box? Or is it just a longer version of what you'll put in there? (If that makes sense). I'm not sure if they have to be drastically different or not!
Also how long is your cover letter? I'm worried mine isn't long enough...
I saw some people say on various blogs that they can just be a large paragraph at around 200 hundred words or so, but other people seem to be saying it can be a whole page!? ???

 

No problemo!
I haven't done anything in the motivation box yet...I#m not really sure what to put in there, so i'm hoping they get rid of it with the new application system

My cover letter is one page long...I didn't feel anything shorter would have fitted much in, as it feels brief anyway. My structure is:

Where i'm studying/what i'm doing
What i'm applying for and where I found out about it.
The skills I think I could offer.
A shorter paragraph on what I would get from the program.
A couple of concluding sentences.

It's about 700 words in total...but looks less than it sounds!

;D

 

Hello to all you new people,

Can't believe this forum is already 9 pages long and there is still another 35 days until we can apply for the program.

Good luck to everyone who is applying and remember just try and be yourselves. Don't fret too much over the C.Vs and cover letters and don't compare yourselves with one another thinking "oh that guy has experience or whatever". Just be yourselves

My mum decided to ring up Yummy Jobs today because she thought I wasn't able to apply since I live in the Republic of Ireland and its called the UK program. She found out that the CV can be up to 3 pages, but it has to be up to 600 words. It has to be very neat and easy to skim through. A cover letter isn't necessary but some applicants do put it in. It shouldn't be more than a page. And apparently the yummy recruiters get a bit annoyed to margin tweakers (guilty). Just make sure the entire thing is presentable.

Also yummy jobs will also be having a social platform which will start up on the same day applications open, so that should be interesting.

 

That's interesting! That's the opposite of what Yummy Jobs told me! I told them my CV was 2.5 pages long and they said that was too long, and that they rarely consider CVs over 2 pages.

I think my cover letter has tweaked margins but my CV is normal.

Can't wait to see this new application process though!

 

Well that's what they told me. I say it really depends on who you get to read your CV. But I asked were all my state examinations needed. They said they only wanted my Leaving Cert which is still a half page, since we take on so many subjects. That meant I could take out my junior cert which took up a half page. So now my cv is 2 and a half pages. I'd say I'd just leave it at that. Now I just need to tweak my cv and ill be set.

 

This contrasting information is not helpful is it? I'm sure we'll all be fine!!! ;D As for exams...i've got what i'm doing at Uni, i've got my A Levels and my GCSE's.

 

It is not helpful. This program is almost like the lottery.

I was planning on leaving my junior cert in the cv (the equivalent of the GCSEs, I think) but the person on the phone said they weren't really necessary.

 

Ah well! I think as long as the CV is clear, has relevant skills, and sells ourselves, there is nothing more we can do! 8)

 

My thoughts exactly

 

Hey Alex, is that Kent as in UKC?

and yeah i know what you mean, i don't want to presume the worst but can you imagine if i told everyone and didn't get it :-[

OMG! all this knew info is so confusing especially now that their changing their website! thought we had a head start there as we knew what the application looked like before hopefully it's not to different

and call me slow but what what is all this talk of margin tweaking ???

 

I'm stressing so much over this motivation section and the cover letter!
I've seen some people opting to not even do a cover letter at all and just put it all in the motivation section ???
Is everyone here definitely doing a cover letter?

 

i would say a cover letter is essential weather its attached to your CV or in the motivational box

 

Margin tweaking means reducing the margin size do you can reduce the amount of pages that your cv takes up.

I'm definitely doing a cover letter. It is less than one page.

A cover letter isn't mandatory, a lot of people have got in to the program without one. It all depends whether or not you want to write one.

 

Yummy Jobs have a CV template and advice about what to included and writing a cover letter

http://www.yummyjobs.com/cvadvice