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Career Pathways Seminars
Building Blocks for Career Advancement
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Application
Cover Letter & CV
What Not To Do
Post Graduate Medical Council Victoria
Read PMCV guidelines
Know important dates & deadlines
Get applications in on time
Read the “How to Guide”
Review each individual hospital website and
application instructions
Attend hospital information sessions
Selection criteria can include your attendance at
these sessions
The major teaching hospitals in Victoria will
receive approximately:
◦ 690 applications for intern positions
◦ 1019 applications for HMO
◦ Most applications will be asked for on-line
Demonstrate your ability and desire to
make the transition
You’ve done the “text book” part now you need to
demonstrate how you will apply your knowledge
BPT & Surgical Applicants: Transition into
significant training positions
VERY IMPORTANT
◦ Investment into future opportunities
Intern year can mean much more
◦ Potentially career placement of 2 – 8 years
HMO / Registrar / BPT & Surgical Applicants
◦ Fundamental effect on a training placement positions
Employers do read them. Some employers do not
accept applications without cover letters.
It is the first opportunity to sell yourself
The quality of the cover letter shows the quality of
the applicant
It shows the employer that you are not
“scattergunning” your resume and hoping for the
best
Don’t rely on spellcheck
Address the person
◦ If you don’t know who, find out (it will set you apart)
Address the job
◦ Re: Specialist Training Position
Include your contact details
Outline your motivations, particular skills and attributes that
you can bring to the position
◦ the better it reads the better your chances
Be clear, concise, informative and compelling
Is your opportunity to:
To stand out from crowd
To attract the readers attention & keep them
reading!
To let the reader know you have made an effort
to understand their organisation
To get you to interview
Don’t mix up your health services & hospitals
Don’t restate information that appears in CV
Don’t use complicated fonts
Don’t send it with spelling errors
Don’t send it with mistakes in health service name or what
that health service does
Don’t make generalised statements that could apply to all
health services/hospitals
You go to bottom of a very big pile!
What does it say about you?
Will you lack care & attention at work
Will you lack care & attention to patients
Do consultants want doctors on their team who don’t pay
care & attention?
How will you be perceived?
Sell yourself
Your skills & qualities
Your academic & clinical achievements
Special achievements
Community/voluntary
As well rounded, mature, able to handle role
Set yourself apart from the crowd (in a good way!)
Get you to interview
2 – 3 pages in total (remember the pile)
Photo (often digital required)
Name & Contact
Chronological order – most recent backwards
Employment
Rotations
Education
Conferences
Presentations
Referees
Consistent font throughout
Consistent use of:
Headings
Bullets
Page Margins
Research activities
Conferences attended
Presentations you have given
Other life pursuits
Volunteer & Community works
Significant achievements
Academic/professional snapshot
Personal snapshot
Medical Students: this can be an important selling tool
Show how well rounded you are
Without “waffling”
List extra-curricular activities, for example
Coaching
Volunteer work
Community work
Self supported throughout university
This may be what distinguishes you
from the rest!
Include valid reasons for any breaks
in training
Travel
Health
Family commitments
Check spelling
get someone to proof read it, critique it
Read it aloud
Pay care & attention to the detail
Don’t miss the little words ‘to’, ‘of’
Review how it appears online as well as on paper
Check individual health service requirements
Contact your nominated referees
first
Ensure chosen referees can answer all the
questions on the Referee Assessment Form
Check your referees have received the email
request from the online system
Clinical
Build rapport with consultants
Ensure correct status of referee
Ensure referee can answer ALL the questions on the referee
assessment form
Non – Clinical (Medical Students)
A character reference
Evidence that you are ready to make the transition
Interns
Medicine & Surgery
Disciplines of interest to you
Specialist Training Applicants
Targeted referees in your chosen discipline
Don’t send the ‘party’ photo
Don’t send with errors in spelling, grammar
Don’t go crazy with fancy fonts or colours
Just because you can use WordArt doesn’t mean you
should
Don’t use a wacky email address
sexypixie666@....
Medical Students
When listing your rotations at major teaching
hospital include type of rotation & where it was
General Medical Rotation
Don’t list the obvious:
4 cannulations
3 suturing
Exception – extra special placements & electives
Care & Attention
Investment
Research the hospital
Your future deserves your best efforts