From the course: Find Your Dream Job: Interview Techniques and Resume Writing
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- So here are some important thoughts about the detail of what goes into your CV. And the first one is features and benefits. This is a sales idea, for example I don't care if my electric drill has 16 volts, that's a feature, if that feature means I can drill faster through walls, that's what I want, that's the benefit I want. Or if my television is 100 hertz or something, that's a feature, I don't care. But if it means it doesn't flicker, or it's brighter, that's the benefit I want. It's exactly the same when you're selling yourself. Features are irrelevant, it's benefits that we want. So if you've got a feature that you have had 10 years of experience or something, that's just a feature, but what's the benefit to the employer? So with each fact about you, always imagine the employer saying so what? You know, so you've worked in Australia for 10 years, so what? But if you can say I've worked in Australia which means…
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