This Is How to Get Your Next Job

Making Peace with Where Things Are

You want to work. And employers need workers. To get hired you need, as Jack Mayer puts it, “to fit their preconceptions of whether you can do the job.”

We don’t know what every single employer’s preconceptions will be. But we’ve covered broad categories of what employers want to see when they hire someone and insights into how they conclude whether you’ve got the goods.

Whether or not they “should” evaluate you based on how you seem is fruitless to debate. So let’s not. Employers are human and will go on acting like all humans: observing and judging how others seem based on what they see, experience, and sense. You will be judged by your actions, not your intentions. And that’s the way it is. Like it or not. ...