Chris Howell was dead set on working in local government. He had been a graduate student in business school and decided that wasn’t what he wanted his career to be about. So he began doing just about everything conceivable to prepare for a change in direction. He earned a master’s degree in public administration. Through volunteering and internships, he worked with a dozen municipalities—from a small town’s fire department to a regional chamber of commerce. Howell then hit the job market in late 2008.
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