Three Rules For a Hollywood-Ending Job Search

You can increase your chances of a "Hollywood ending," to your job search, however, you can't guarantee it.

Some years back, a late afternoon on New Year's Eve. My phone rang as I walked along the newly snow-plowed sidewalk to my home. After three months of back-and-forth with a financial service provider, my to-be boss was calling me to tell me I got the job. What a way to end 2013!

Then there was the time I was given the "you're no longer a fit" speech, whic…