Application form paragraph

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Anyone in HR??? pleaeeese help

I'm 55 and well qualified for a job i want to apply for, (think helping teenagers etc) but not filled in an application form for a while.

You know the paragraph where you have to show how your skills, experience and abilities should reflect the essential and desirable criteria? How to structure this ???

I have maybe 20 criteria, and have had maybe 7 or 8 roles which encompass the necessary skills etc.
Do I work my way creatively through the criteria going backwards and forwards through my jobs showing how the roles fulfil these?
Or do I go chronologically through my career showing how the jobs gave me x skill and experience which just so happen to fulfil their criteria?

Any advice REALLY appreciated !

I just did this for a job application and in the instructions it said to take each item in the spec one by one.

So it was a lot of back and forth between different roles, describing how I met the spec - but seems to have worked as I've been shortlisted for interview.

Ok thanks, couldn’t face doing that as it would have taken forever so wrote 4 long paragraphs kind of generalising. We’ll see.
Good luck with your interview.