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Crafting Your Edge for Today's Job Market

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Leading strategy expert, Julia Ivy, presents the EDGE Method. Designed for students in capstone courses and working on consultancy case theses, this method guides students through a process of conn...
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Are you looking to cut through the crowd of graduate job-seekers? To craft your edge in the saturated job market? Then you need the BE-EDGE Method.  
The BE-EDGE Method provides a step-by-step guide that connects job seekers to target employers through a process of case consulting. It creates an opportunity for the new or established professional to carve out their own space in an industry of choice, by establishing a relationship of trust with and proving their value to an industry insider. The method shows readers how to:  

Elucidate their professional CORE, strategically identifying a space in the market that will best fit their multidimensional profile and selecting a case to work on;  

Develop TRUST with an industry insider on the basis of deep understanding and storytelling--as an industry researcher, company biographer, and case writer;  

Generate VALUE for a company by making a concrete contribution and offering action-based solutions in the form of a consulting case report; and 

Excite insiders with the candidate's fit for a company and their potential to add value in the industry. 

These steps allow the BE-EDGE Method to help young graduates to enhance their employability, as well as helping life-long learners to redefine and craft their own space in the market when looking to change careers. Including testimonials from students of this method, this book is unmissable for anyone looking to create their own space in industry.
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Price: $61.99
Pages: 240
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited
Imprint: Emerald Publishing Limited
Publication Date: 07 October 2019
ISBN: 9781789732986
Format: Paperback
BISACs:

BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / General, Business studies: general, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Careers / Internships, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Business Writing

Julia Ivy’s Crafting Your Edge for Today’s Job Market is arguably one of the most important books of its type to emerge in recent memory... Ivy is an inventive thinker, never resting on the status quo, and clearly seeks to push and inspire the young to realize the full range of their dreams, gifts, and skills... (O)ne of the best books about making your way through the modern job market I have read in quite some time.
Dr. Julia Ivy is a strategy and international business executive professor and faculty director for the MS in International Business at Northeastern University. Dr. Ivy holds two doctorate degrees, the first a PhD in Psychology and the second in Management. The BE-EDGE Method arose out of the point of intersection of these two specialties. In addition to her academic work, Dr. Ivy consults and acts as an executive coach for universities and businesses seeking to establish an employment pipeline for highly educated millennials and active professionals looking to change careers.
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: ELUCIDATING THE CORE. Your Focus
1. YOUR CORE AS A PRO
2. YOUR COMPANY
3. REACHING OUT TO THE COMPANY OF YOUR CHOICE
PART 2: DEVELOPING TRUST. Your Case
4. FOCUS ON THE CHALLENGE
5. CONNECTING THROUGH A FACT-BASED COMPANY STORY
PART 3: GENERATING VALUE. Your Consulting Report 
6. DEFINING YOUR METHODOLOGY
7. SHARPENING YOUR CASE ANALYSIS
8. TAILORING YOUR RECOMMENDATIONS
PART 4: EXCITING THE MARKET. Your Edge
9. PREPARING THE CASE BRIEF
10. PRESENTING THE CASE TO THOSE WHO COUNT
CONCLUSION. Testimonials
APPENDICES 
Appendix A. Example of Informed Consent 
Appendix B. The Lilypad Case 
Appendix C. Example of Rubrics and Measures for Data Collection 
Appendix D. Example of Data Presentation