Chapter 10. Don’t Have the Exact Experience? No Problem!

Despite the many generations of humanity participating in job interviews (people looking for jobs and people hoping to hire the ideal candidate), the process is still riddled with so much dysfunction. You know it; we know it; and they (the corporate monolithic they who seem to be in control of everything—but they’re not) know it. The most pernicious of all the dysfunctions, it seems, is the simple fact that they want someone with proven experience in doing exactly the same job in the same industry (three years’ experience seems to be ideal).

But this book isn’t about them. It’s about you. And you want to get on with things and actually grow yourself and your career by doing something more ...

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