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I'd update my resume so you're ready for any outcome.

When I go to the interviews and sit before a prospective employer, I'm going to try and look as employable as I can.

I've worked for a long time to get myself in a position where maybe I'd be fortunate enough to land one of the big jobs.

'Space finder' is a phase I used in an interview one time, and it's followed me ever since.

Especially in the first 10-15 years, your regular resume is not an authentic representation of you - you don't really have that many notches on your belt, so to speak. In a super-competitive job environment, you need to be able to tell a multi-dimensional story about who you are as a person.

And so I'm still giving some thought - I will transition hopefully into the corporate world. And I look forward to getting involved in several other areas that I have a great interest in.

When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

It would be nice to be in one place for a while and have a social life again and get a job. But I'm not qualified to do anything. That's the problem.

I got my first job the old-fashioned way: I took an elevator to the top floor of many buildings and walked down floor by floor on the stairs going into every firm and asking the receptionist if she knew of any jobs available.

Using the Internet to secure employment is as vital to a construction worker as it is to a software engineer.

I really don't make a concerted effort to try to find a type of role.

I learned to take the first job that you have in the business that you want to get into. It doesn't matter what that job is, you get your foot in the door.

You can't get work without working.

I've done so many interviews that I've gotten past the ego and the personality.

I'm very good at being out of work.

I'm not picking up my phone and calling anyone for employment.

I was scouted working at the register at McDonald's in Melbourne, Australia. I worked there as my first job, and a guy walked in and gave me his card. I was 16. I was skeptical, but I looked it up when I got home, and it was legitimate.

Employers are looking for individuals who can tell a story about what they bring to a particular company, and people with an understanding of that have a much better chance of getting to where they want to go.

The business of working at getting work is pretty intense. But you don't get the rewards of actually working.

I got my transferrable skills from working at entry-level, gauging what I wanted from my career, and making sure I had what it took to get the one I truly wanted. But now there's a Catch 22: school leavers need experience to get jobs, but they can't get experience without jobs.

You only have a true choice when you know what opportunities are out there and what qualifications you need.

If I want another job, I'll get one. I haven't set a date of when to stop managing.

I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.

While you are searching for a job, it is a good idea to be on your best behavior.