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Job hunters in the U.S. are looking for any edge they can find and that's understandable when nearly one in ten of the workforce is unemployed.

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As Alina Cho found out, it could all come to good manners and even the way that you're sitting -- your posture.

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So pay attention.

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It's four steps. Let me show you. One, two, quietly, three...

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What does this...

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OK.

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...have to do...

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I leaned over a little bit. Is that OK?

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You can tilt, uh-huh.

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OK.

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...with getting a job?

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OK, that's a big bite, Sarah.

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I couldn't break it any smaller.

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Would you believe etiquette counts for a lot?

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Eighty-five percent of success in life, in getting a job, is people skills.

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Fifteen percent is technical skills or what you know.

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So how do you improve your people skills? By taking a class.

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Welcome to "Outclass the Competition: Business Etiquette."

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In just a year, Patricia Fitzpatrick says her business has doubled,

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and she charges $200 per person for a two-hour group session. 

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One, two, three shakes is OK. Four is getting strange and five is creepy.

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Other etiquette classes are going gangbusters.

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And the students are younger, 20-somethings, just out of school looking for a job and an edge.

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I want to be the person that they're like, this girl is great.

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When she came in, she smiled, she was confident, she shook my hand well. I want to be that person.

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Which is why these young women are learning how to properly dine, communicate and network --

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all the little things that can show a potential employer you're up for the job.

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First of all, you don't go to events to eat, OK? You're not there to eat. So eat something before you go.

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Make eye contact in the area Fitzpatrick calls the triangle. Anything lower is too personal.

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Once you get the job, know how to eat. There's always a business lunch.

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Number one rule, eat with the back side of your fork,

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cross your utensils while you rest and leave them parallel at 10:20, like a clock, when you're done.

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So many details. Does it really matter?

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Anna Post is the great-great-granddaughter of Emily Post, the woman who literally wrote the book on etiquette.

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This will put you apart from the crowd.

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There are so many qualified resumes.

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This is a way to show that the boss can send you out

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and have absolute confidence that you won't embarrass them in front of a client, bottom line.