How to use the application training

You can make a request and send it to Ruth either in the main menu under ‘Ask Ruth’ or simply with the icon. Ruth will get back to you in within 48 hours providing a written answer or feedback!

60 minutes of online coaching are available to you consisting of individual written online feedbacks. For each request, the time spent is deducted from your time budget. The average processing time for a resume, as well as a cover letter is about 20-30 minutes each. This leaves 10 minutes for your individual questions to Ruth. The remaining time is always visible for you under ‘Ask Ruth’. If the budget is used up, you will not be able to ask any more questions.

To improve your documents and give valuable tips, you can contact Ruth in writing. You can send in a variety of documents, such as the job advertisement, CV, and cover letter.

Here is an example of a submitted CV with Ruth’s comments on the right:

If you make a request it will be answered in the form of a written response and you will receive feedback – so you never talk to Ruth in person.

The Budget is the amount of coaching time available for you. At the beginning you are entitled to 60 minutes, with each request the coach reduces your budget by the time used to answer your request.

The processing time of the entire application training, including the creation of the personal resume, job journal and action plan is approximately 20-40 hours. The processing time depends on your individual starting position. You can interrupt and resume the training at any time.

No, the order in which you complete the courses does not affect the completion of the training. It is up to you.

Yes, you can work on the courses as often as you like. However questions within the courses can only be answered once. You can edit the job journal and the action plan over and over again.

The job journal is like your diary. You can capture personal thoughts and reflections and thus also develop new ideas and make decisions. It should help you see your progress and is also very valuable after you have completed the training! We therefore recommend you to save & export the job journal.

No. The job journal is only for you and as well as your personal notes.

The action plan serves as a basis for the interview with your RAV counselor. Here you note down further steps and goals, as well as skills and training.

The profile consists of a competence profile and your strengths and weaknesses and helps you to ideally use or improve them. The competence profile is based on the assessments you gave in course 2 ‘Softskills’. You can adjust your assessments as often as you like. Please note that the profile is not part of the job journal and therefore cannot be exported. If you would like to keep this assessment after your account expires, we recommend that you take a screenshot.