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.

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A Great Job Can Wait a Week. A Desperate One Can't

I sent a lot of these offers in twenty years on the hiring side, so I know what the tells ...

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How to Look for the Exit Without Tripping the Alarm

Most physicians who are quietly miserable in a job stay in it far longer than they ...

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The Question That Makes Them Show You Their Cards

Jeff Bettag will be the first to tell you he's not a typical resident. "I've cold-emailed ...

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The Questions They're Quietly Hoping You're Too Polite to Ask

I sat on the hiring side of these interviews for twenty years, and the pattern almost ...

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Your Recruiter Is Very Nice. That's Not the Same as Being on Your Side

Most physicians take a job on remarkably little information. There's a glossy posting, a ...

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Career navigation for physicians — and the education that makes it make sense.

Physicians first, always.

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