BUSINESS PLANNING - please help me oh mumsnet intellegencia, to fill in application for job

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what it is - is the business planning is for community buildings - to make them sustainable and to assess how viable they are

is there something you have or you could point me to

what should i include on the application form

any bullshit will do.

thanking you in anticipation

custardo

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custardo here you go - I don't have any specific knowledge of business planning for community building or anything, maybe someone else will, but have put together some stuff about good application forms -

I am assuming you?ve got a job description? have a look at the person spec bit which lists what skills/experience/qualifications etc are needed for the job. You need to make sure you have addressed each of the selection criteria somewhere in the application form. Stuff like ?qualifications? etc will have a section on the form but all the skills/experience type stuff you will have to tackle yourself.
Have a look at the list, sit down with a blank piece of paper and think about how you meet each criteria, what you have done using x skill, or how you have experience of y, maximising your responsibility level and involvement.
You need to make this really really easy to read, so I would do some headings, making sure each thing on the person spec is covered. Don?t quote the requirements exactly, be a bit more generic with the headings and you can group some requirements together. For example, with ?communication? ? the requirements on the person spec might be a) must have experience of communicating effectively with members of the public. There might also be something about communicating with other organizations, with team members, or whatever. All that can be addressed under the heading ?communication?. If you do headings and ensure everything is covered without quoting their person spec verbatim, it shows you have thought about it and understood it rather than just cut and pasted.

Write short snappy sentences explaining all your skills/achievements etc, but in such a way that it will be easy for them to 'tick off' that you have demonstrated each skill etc that they have requested. Don?t write long paragraphs, they will not be read properly when shortlisting, they will be skim-read or important things you are saying will be lost. When whoever does it is shortlisting they will be sitting there with a list of ?must-haves? and ?desirables?, and you should make it as easy as possible to tick off the requirements quickly without much effort on their part!

Hope that makes sense, and good luck!

thank you so much you have been very useful and wonderful and great.

any one have anythng specific tobusiness planning?

Sounds dead hard...

um...

thinking...

really thinking...

Something about regeneration and mainstreaming? Whatever the latter may be. Public-private partnerships?

No. dunno.

Who would know? Maybe blu? She runs a community building... Maybe google?

Good luck mon ami.

So you need to talk about budget setting, forecasting, setting deadlines, prioritising, having leads, targets, doing risk analyses, demonstrating cost effectiveness.

All bobbins really but might help.

And of course you liaise/network/negotiate/work effectively with everyone in the world - particularly stakeholders...