Executive Recruiters Give the 411

Who better to advise you on job-hunting than the people whose living depends on clinching lucrative positions for others? A year ago, Mark Jaffe, owner of Wyatt & Jaffe, began offering Businessweek.com Headhunter Hints—weekly words of wisdom about résumés, interviews, and other aspects of finding work. This fall, Tara McKernan, an executive vice-president at DHR International, began contributing as well. You can find a new Headhunter Hint every Friday on the Managing Your Career page. Below are 25 parcels of good counsel culled from our Headhunter Hint archives.