In the current economic climate, it has become (i)___________to posit that savvy job-seekers ought to establish at least a year’s worth of experience at any given position, so as to demonstrate their (ii)___________to future employers. Indeed, those who make this suggestion often quote each other in the media in what essentially amount to congratulatory, self-serving articles. Yet these so-called (iii)___________often betray their lack of expertise by then suggesting the omission of jobs that do last less than one year from a job-seeker’s resume.
The sentence fragments:
job-seekers ought to establish
at least a year’s worth of experience at any given position, so as to demonstrate their (ii)___________to future employers.
Clearly it has to be
steadfastness and not vigor, definitely not perversity!
The following sentence fragment:
Indeed, those who make this suggestion
often quote each other in the media in what essentially amount to congratulatory, self-serving articles.
make it clear that the word for the first blank should be
popular.
And the following sentence fragment:
Yet these
so-called (iii)___________often
betray their lack of expertise by then suggesting the omission of jobs that do last less than one year from a job-seeker’s resume.
Clearly, the choice is
pundits.
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