Internal Job Applicants Keeping You in the 99%

And here's another note on being one among 100 applicants for a job.  Quite of lot of your competition is from internal candidates looking to move up.  In fact, the company may already have every intention of promoting someone from within to the position, but is legally required to publicly post the job.  Something to think about when you get one of those  "Thanks, but we are considering other applicants"  email responses just two days after you apply.