Sharing Too Much Information May Hinder Your Job Search

"I told him to be himself. That was pretty mean, I guess."

In Mad Men's season four episode Waldorf Stories, Roger Sterling tells Don Draper, who'd just interviewed a junior copywriter candidate, who unbeknownst to him was Roger's wife's cousin, advice he gave him he knew seldom works in the corporate world: "I told him to be himself. That was pretty mean, I guess."

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