True Fit: How to Find the Right Job by Being You

The author, a colorful and well-known Bay Street big shot who has hired over 600 people at a major Canadian bank, has some blunt advice for anyone seeking a job: Don't try to fit into someone else's box. Figure out who you are, and what you're good at. Then finding a job will be much easier.

Most of us, especially people looking for high-priced corporate jobs, don't do this, according to author Jim Beqaj. We spend our entire lives trying to be somebody other than who we are. We're afraid of...