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Your Employment Edge

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The Key to Gaining an Employment Edge?

Perfect every aspect of your candidacy within your control

so you can...

Influence hiring actions that are beyond your control.

First recognize what you can control and act to control it. Then recognize what you can't control and act to influence it.

As an illustration of what I mean pretend for a moment you've submitted your resume to a job posting on Monster.

You can control
the format and content of your resume, how position specific your cover letter (or email) is and how you follow-up. You might also have controlled how you submitted your candidacy.

You can't control
whether the posting was a true representation of the position; whether the person doing the first pass screening of submitted resumes will actually look at your resume; whether she puts it in the "yes" folder for further review or whether the hiring manager will ever get to see it.

Accept ownership of your candidacy. Don't worry and fret or waste time blaming others. Take action instead.

Work to understand what employers want and perfect every controllable aspect of your candidacy. The information found on this site will help you do that. This will by extension allow you to influence hiring actions that are beyond your control. Do this and you will...
Gain an Edge to Win the Job!




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The Job Seeker's Edge - Part 1


The Job Seeker's Edge - Part 2


How to Write a Resume


Employment Application Do's and Don'ts


Interviewing Do's and Don'ts

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