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If you're applying for your first job, you might treat job hunting like a fussy suitor problem and want to get five offers to get a good picture of your market value. You get a job where you're pretty happy with the salary, the benefits, and the work.

When you apply for subsequent jobs, you no longer need to take a large sample to calibrate your judgement; you only need to compare the job to your current one. And questions like salary and the nature of the work can be answered during the phone screen.

If changing jobs takes three days of annual leave and boosts my salary by $10,000 that seems like a pretty good trade to me.



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