(Editor's note: This guest blog was written by Matthew T. Patton, editor of ADVANCE for Medical Laboratory Professionals.) Endless nights of pouring through magazines and newspapers and clicking seemingly endlessly through career sites to land a job is no kind of fun at all. In fact, looking for a job is a job in and of itself. No fun. If you're ...

We got inside your heads. Not in any creepy subconscious sort of way; more like, ''Hey, you read our magazine, we see you at conferences-let's get to know each other.'' Three rounds of surveys later, we have a better idea of ''What Makes HIM Professionals Tick.'' I was pleased that 60 percent of you recycle, jealous that more than half of you ...

The ADVANCE team likes to be inquisitive (it's part of our job, ya know). Sure, we've met you at conferences, chatted you up on the phone, but we want to know what really goes on in that head of yours. Thus, we introduced ''What Makes HIM Professionals Tick,'' a series of 10-question surveys about anything from your first job to your favorite ...

We're back for the third installment of our ''Difficult Personalities'' series. So far, we've escaped the needy co-worker's grasp and busted the ''ghost'' employee's vanishing routine. This time, we'll scale the know-it-all's mental pedestal to get a better perspective on this difficult personality. Always Right, Even When Wrong Ever see that ...