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Job Interviews For Dummies®, 4th Edition
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Job Interviews For Dummies®, 4th Edition

by Joyce Lain Kennedy
December 2011
Beginner content levelBeginner
339 pages
7h 40m
English
For Dummies
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Chapter 6

Research Is Your Ticket Inside

In This Chapter

arrow Researching to open doors that keep you outside

arrow Gleaning information to soar above competition

arrow Chasing down the right research and nailing it

Academy Award winners Natalie Portman and Nicholas Cage understand that research breeds advantage.

When Portman prepared for her ballerina role in Black Swan, she studied and practiced ballet many hours every day for months. To authenticate his role in Bringing Out the Dead, Nicolas Cage, playing a paramedic, rode along with real paramedics to a real drive-by shooting of a young boy.

You may not want to go as far as practicing ballet or comforting a suffering gunshot victim. But figuratively speaking, I hope you won’t tie your hands behind your back and put a blindfold around your eyes by failing to gather the data that can change your life.

Investigate Like a Quiz-Show Winner

showstopper.eps Even if you’d rather scrub morgue floors than do quiz-show-quality research on organizations and their people, suck it up and dig right in — or hire someone to handle the research ditch-digging for you. Consider ...

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