Since， at my publisher s behest， this book is revised annually，<br > I like to think of it as our annual "Report to the Nation - and<br > Canada - About the Most Effective Job-Hunting Ideas." The<br >book began， way back in 1970， as a monologue - I did all the<br >talking. Now the book is a dialogue. Countless job-hunters，<br >career-changers， and job-counselors write me during the year<br >(my address is in the back of every book) and tell me new<br >wrinkles， and new techniques that they found worked. These<br >get duly incorporated into the book the following year. Thus it<br >is now a sort of "Job-Hunters Report to the Nation" rather<br >than just "My Report."<br > This information is drastically needed， in hard times and easy.<br >Job-hunting is a repetitive activity in the Western world. You<br >don t just do it once， and get it over with. You have to do it<br >again and again. More often when you are young， to be sure.<br >Less often as you get older. Still， the facts remain that the aver-<br >age American worker works for ten different employers during<br >I<br >I<br ><br >