Many longtime jobseekers need more self-awareness, business plan with KPIs Being unemployed while looking for a job is not the obstacle it once was, but that doesn't make an extended search any easier. Executives who have gone many months to a year or more since their last position may need a new game plan and a renewed commitment to the task. "People that are in transition need to treat transition as a full-time job," said recruiter Taney Hamill, a senior consultant at Raffa. "It takes a lot of work to find a new opportunity." In some ways a job search is even harder today, said New York City-based career adviser Marianne Ruggiero. Before the recession started in 2008,… Read More