One lesson many businesses learned during the recent economic boom was that finding good workers was troublesome at best and impossible at worst.

And now that the economy has turned tepid, the unemployed may have to work a little harder to find jobs but they have plenty of help.

Manufactured resumes are easier to get than a newspaper. Books and classes abound to help even the most incompetent candidates march confidently through interviews. The threat of litigation has rendered references pretty much useless.

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