{"id":542,"date":"2016-11-22T11:50:07","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:50:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/?p=542"},"modified":"2016-11-22T11:50:07","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T16:50:07","slug":"gain-edge-job-opportunity-arises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/gain-edge-job-opportunity-arises\/","title":{"rendered":"How to gain an edge when a job opportunity arises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BScudamore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-543\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/BScudamore.jpg\" alt=\"bscudamore\" width=\"220\" height=\"124\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even with the economy in recovery mode, finding a job can be brutal. An average of <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/www.inc.com\/peter-economy\/19-interesting-hiring-statistics-you-should-know.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">250 people apply<\/a> for every corporate job opening. Scarier still, <a title=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/business.financialpost.com\/personal-finance\/young-money\/80-of-resumes-are-rejected-in-less-than-11-seconds-here-are-6-tips-on-surviving-that-brutal-first-cut?__lsa=0ab4-012c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">80 per cent of resumes are rejected<\/a> within 11 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">Given those odds, it\u2019s imperative that you impress the big boss when you finally land an interview. Although I\u2019ve handed off the hiring duties to my company president and HR team, I\u2019m still involved in the hiring process for many of our leaders.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\">From almost 30 years of leafing through resumes and sitting through interviews, here are my tips for standing out to a CEO and getting the offer of your dreams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"selectionShareable\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theglobeandmail.com\/report-on-business\/careers\/leadership-lab\/how-to-gain-an-edge-when-a-job-opportunity-arises\/article32801930\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the Full Article<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Even with the economy in recovery mode, finding a job can be brutal. An average of 250 people apply for every corporate job opening. Scarier still, 80 per cent of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.acadiate.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}