Job Reconnaissance

Chapter 18

Conclusion

In the end, information only takes you so far. You will not get a job simply by knowing things or making good guesses about people’s personal proclivities. Information is only useful if it is actually used.

It is common for people to be nervous when job hunting. Increased familiarity—with the interviewers, with the organization’s needs, and with the process as a whole—helps calm the nerves and allows you to shine in interviews. The world is full of people who interview well but can’t do the work. By going through this process, you can demonstrate the most important criterion—that you can do the work. It takes a truly stupendous effort of will to examine your ethics, exhaustively research people and organizations, discover ...