How not to ruin your next career move
How not to ruin your next career move New research suggests many top business executives make elementary mistakes when searching for new jobs Harvard Business Review report identifies five common mistakes Executives often leave for money and overestimate their own abilities Got a job offer or thinking of making a career move in 2010? You would be wise to do your homework to avoid ruining your next move, new research suggests. A report published in this month's Harvard Business Review suggests that even high-ranking executives make elementary mistakes when searching for a new role. In researching "Five Ways to Bungle a Job Change", authors Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams interviewed 400 executive research consultants, 500 high level executives and the heads of Human Resources at 15 multinational companies. "It all kept coming down to the same thing," Robin Abrahams, research associate at Harvard Business School, told CNN. "Five mistakes came out consiste...