One live option isn't a choice. It's a hope with a deadline.
Leverage isn't a personality trait, it's arithmetic — the number of people who'd be glad to have you. Build that number before you need it, quietly, while you still have time.
The Best Time to Create Leverage Is Before You Want to Leave
Leverage is the number of people who would be glad to have you, and whether you can name ...
Stop Running a Serial Job Search
Pursuing one opportunity at a time feels like commitment. Employers read it as a ...
How to Look for the Exit Without Tripping the Alarm
Quiet looking almost never blows up. Staying too long in a bad fit is what people ...
The Question That Makes Them Show You Their Cards
Most residents sit through the interview like a sales pitch. One question turns it into a ...
A Great Job Can Wait a Week. A Desperate One Can't
An exploding deadline tells you more about the employer than about the job. Eight tells ...
The Questions They're Quietly Hoping You're Too Polite to Ask
You spent a decade learning to ask uncomfortable questions. Then a hiring process is nice ...
Your Recruiter Is Very Nice. That's Not the Same as Being on Your Side
Twenty years on the hiring side taught Jeff Williams what a recruiter can tell you and ...