New jobs are hard to come by these days, and good help is always hard to find.  In any job interview, almost all of the power seems to go to the employer.  Still, the process of finding and keeping excellent people is not easy.  In fact, the currently flooded labor market has made any hiring manager’s job much more difficult.  The path to employment is a dance in which both parties—the potential employee and the hiring entity—can gracefully execute powerful moves.  And what comes after the dance can be a wonderful or hellish experience, depending on the fit between the employee and the workplace.

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