On her site and particularly in her book, Walton emphasizes how necessary confidence is to the process.

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But as Enrico Moretti emphasizes in his book The New Geography of Jobs, the importance of the innovation sector is not just how many jobs they create directly, but how many jobs they create indirectly.

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Though Hellmann has written a whole book about using online resources, Your Social Media Job Search, he emphasizes how important it is to extend most of your efforts beyond online search.

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