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As usual, Don Goodman hit it out of the park with his post titled You Must Remember This: Information You Must Have before the Interview.  

As I was reading through it I had two thoughts:

1. He is right on - if you have this information before you go into an interview, and you know what to do with it (how to ask…

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Over four years ago I wrote Managing a serious job search can be a serious mess, talking about managing my own job search.

Four years later, it's still a serious issue.  As I travel and speak around the country I come across people who are frustrated at the amount of stuff they are trying to keep up with, and the length of the job search.

I find other people who have…

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That's what I found in my job search. I thought I would be in a job search for a few weeks and then move out of this phase. Weeks became months... and I found that I was in a serious job search. Not that I wasn't serious at first, but as months went by the stakes grew larger and larger. Money was running out and my resume was looking more pathetic with this growing "out of work" time!



I managed all of my activity in a fairly sophisticated spreadsheet that I built. It allowed me to keep… Continue