By Skip Freeman, The HTW Group
Special to Online Career Tips

This blog is a modified excerpt from professional “headhunter” and bestselling job-hunting book author Skip Freeman’s next book in the “Headhunter” Hiring Secrets series of job-hunting books, CAREER STALLED? How to Get Your Career Back in ‘High Gear’ and Land the Job You Deserve─Your Dream Job. Publication is scheduled for early 2013.

Remember when you were a youngster and people were continually asking you, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” If you’re at all typical, you probably asked yourself that same important question quite a few times as well. According to a recent survey conducted by LinkedIn*, the World’s largest professional networking site, only about one in three adults (about 30%) claim to have actually achieved their childhood “dream” job, or to be working in careers related to such a job.