7 The Job Market

You can’t win the game if you don’t know the rules.

Chapter Overview

Would you play a game if you knew you only had a 5-percent chance of winning? You might think these are reasonably good odds if you’re a gambler, but would you want to spend 90 to 95 percent of your time pursuing a job search if you knew that what you were doing only had a 5- to 10-percent chance of success? In this chapter, you’ll learn:

image How the job market really works at the executive and manager level.

image The different approaches to the job market you need to ...

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