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Five tips to get a job application noticed

Stock image of a man receiving a CV.

Nairobi; Kenya: Kunjan Zaveri reckons he’s applied for more than 1,000 jobs online since being made redundant earlier this year. But, he said, he heard back from exactly... none.

For some job seekers, hitting the “submit” button on an online job application feels like launching a CV into a black hole, never to be seen or heard from again. For Mr Zaveri, a former human resources analyst for Cisco, it sure feels that way.

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