I recently have spent over two months working through the process for a job I really wanted. During that journey I’d made mistakes that I feel are worth sharing. Hopefully you can take these lessons to heart.  If you are ever in a similar position you won’t repeat them.

Years ago I read an article advocating that employers mention that they might want W-2 forms to verify past performance when hiring sales representatives or account managers.  (For those of you not in the US, a W-2 is the form our Internal Revenue Service uses to have firms report compensation…