A thousand years ago when I was an HR leader, I started reading career advice in the newspaper to see what career advisors were telling job-seekers and working people to do. Right away I was horrified. Every piece of job-search advice I saw came from the school of thought "Kneel down and beg to get a job." I hadn't realized that the traditional view of a job-seeker's role is to bow and scrape and twist him- or herself into pretzel shapes to please a hiring manager. I decided way back in the early nineties that when I got the time I would right the ship and tell job-seekers to value themse...