ASAP Edit Debuts Offering Professional Editing Services to Executive Job Seekers

Pittsburgh, PA, April 26, 2010 --(PR.com)-- ASAP Edit launched today to provide fast, accurate editing services for executive job seekers. Today’s human resources professionals, hiring managers and interview teams expect prompt turnaround of cover letters thank you notes, resumes and other correspondence, prompting ASAP Edit's founder Yitz Francus to offer the fastest turnaround on the internet of critical job seeker's correspondence.

ASAP Edit is the brainchild of Yitz Francus, a professional writer, attorney and entrepreneur who has held a number of senior executive positions in his career. In true entrepreneurial fashion, ASAP Edit was inspired by a job search. “I was on the job market for the first time in almost a decade,” says Francus, “and the pace had become blinding. Executive job search sites and an army of freelancers offered career consulting and professional writing services for every set piece of the job search process – resumes, bios, cover letters, thank you notes, KSAs (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities), follow-up letters, reference verifications.” By providing professional editors to confidentially edit and return critical job emails in as fast as an hour or two, ASAP Edit makes sure that career communications are not only prompt, but well written and error free.

Francus believes applicants are eager for his services. “When a job applicant communicates with us, we expect a prompt email response that reflects our interaction and sounds like the applicant actually wrote it. Whether it’s an outline of capabilities, a thank you note or a cover letter, it has to be tailored and specific,” says Ursula Lesic, Manager of Human Resources for the Transtar division of U.S. Steel.

Online editing services are not new. Businesses like WordsRU and FirstEditing.com provide editing services, while sites like Guru, Elance and the Editorial Freelancers Association provide a marketplace where writers and editors bid on posted assignments. But these services are not designed to help executives who need editing for short, high-stakes documents on a tight deadline. By contrast, ASAP Edit is focused specifically on short career communications that have to go out quickly. “Critical job emails don’t need to go out in five seconds,” Francus notes, “but they do need to arrive by the end of the business day or by the next business morning. Like FedEx for electronic mail.”

Says Lesic, “The Internet exerts pressure on executive job candidates to send employers thoughtful, tailored responses quickly.” ASAP Edit wants to ensure that those communications can be professionally edited.

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