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Want to know what a career is really like? Ask someone with first-hand experience. Talking to people about their jobs and asking them for advice and information is called an informational interview.

“I think I’d like to go into teaching,” states the corporate accountant who has just been downsized. But it has been 25 years since he sat in a high school math classroom, so his dream job bears no ...