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September 22, 2009 /

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Bear Paw Development Corporation is a private non-profit organization created for the purpose of administering programs to help improve regional economic conditions in Hill, Blaine, Liberty, Chouteau and Phillips Counties and the Fort Belknap and Rocky Boy's Indian Reservations.

It doesn’t take a lifetime in the working world to figure out that a job that looks great on paper could easily be terrible for you in practice. There are seemingly endless reasons that a job could be a bad fit — culture clash, bad boss, crazy co-workers … I could go on and on.

In this week’s Washington Post Sunday Jobs section, frequent Post freelancer Vickie Elmer tackled this topic in an article titled “Get Creative to Find out Whether You’d Fit In.” She tracked down some great advice from experts, but still the article left me wanting to shout out some caveats that I’ve learned the hard way.

by Brooke Howell

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