Introduction

You’re looking for a job. Maybe you’ve just graduated from college. Maybe you’ve been laid off. Or, maybe you’ve decided that it’s time for a career change. Maybe you want a better job. You might even have a better or different reason than the ones I’ve listed here.

Congratulations!

It’s exciting and scary and unpredictable and overwhelming. If you are anything like me, you can be optimistic one moment, pessimistic the next. You can think you have it “all set” and then your stack of company brochures slides off the table onto the floor and you think, “Oh boy, I do not have anything together.”

And, because it’s all of those things, and your emotions fly up and down, you just might need some help to find that emotional balance and ...

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