Résumés: How to stand out when applying to BHP

Añadido: 2026-05-03

[00:00:07]To make yourself stand out, I think, you just have a really neat and tidy resume.

[00:00:10]It doesn't have to be professional, but it just needs to be to the point, sharp, short. Make sure you've got your dates on there, where you've worked, and just a few dot points about your main duties, any special skills that you might have that we might be interested in, and obviously your up-to-date contact details. Having the resume formatted in a way that is very easy for our talent acquisition and our team to review, so we're able to extract that information and to be able to quantify those highlights of your career in a quite easy and and readable way. We really want to know about you, so I would start a CV off with what type person you are, and then build on that straight away would be a license certificates and recent work history. If you're new to industry, just to see what kinds of background that you've had, maybe you've done some entry pathways programs leading up to this, or some work experience. Love to see all of those certificates, school-based experience, and your motivation for applying to be HP as well. One of the things we're noticing now with strong resumes is you can really pick out the resumes that have been developed by an AI tool, so I would really strongly encourage people to actually spend a bit of time, make that resume your own. It's just putting in that time and effort to make sure that you're telling that story independently of the next person.

[00:01:34]The first thing is make sure you have the right details in your resume. Make sure the dates of your experiences clear, and make sure that you're able to highlight how your skills and qualifications match the advertised job post. Make sure to highlight a summary of the work experience and the personal profile and the motivation, something that will add a lot of value in the reviewing process. Making sure you've got a clear reverse chronological order to your resume. You just want to see the key stuff up front, so you can see the most recent roles quickly and easily.

[00:02:07]Keeping it short and sweet with the cover letter, I don't think we need to go into much detail. Just kind of why you're applying for it and why you think you'd be suitable for this role. I think in your resume, keeping it quite readable with bullet points in your job history, so get away from paragraphs, have your job title, how long you've been in the role, and then bullet points of what you do in a day-to-day activity.

[00:02:30]For each work experience, include the four main responsibilities along with one measurable achievement related to the role.

[00:02:42]Avoid burying all your amazing qualifications at the very bottom where I have to hunt to find are you even qualified for this role when I can see the role that you're performing, your skills and experience in the first kind of page, that makes it a whole lot easier for us to feel like you're a fit for the role. People are too brief with their CVs, so they may just list the company and the dates that they worked there. It's really great to go a little bit more in depth, the capacity of what you were working on, how big was the team, what equipment did you work on, but also you don't want to have a CV that's too long. CVs that are five to six pages have become a bit like a novel, so it's good to meet somewhere in the middle. A two to three pager is good if you've got lots of experience, but also if you're on the leaner side, maybe like a two pager. We don't need to see what you did 20 years ago. The most relevant work will be your last five years worth of work history. Build a CV the right way. You might want to start with that job that you did four years ago, because that's more relevant to the position that you're actually applying for now. Avoid copying the job post word for word. It just makes us question if you've actually done what you said you did.