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		<title>Are Skype interviews good for you?</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4745/are-skype-interviews-good-for-you</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the February 7, 2012 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader says Skype interviews aren&#8217;t such a good idea: Thanks so much for hosting an Open Mic session and offering your professional expertise. My career is in IT (information technology) and although I feel more like a commodity these days than the business professional that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sales Source: The best sales blog for job hunters</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4433/sales-source-the-best-sales-blog-for-job-hunters</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 02 Dec 2011 19:00:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meet Geoffrey James. He writes a sales blog that will help you land your next job. &#8220;When you go job hunting, always remember that you&#8217;re selling!&#8221; That&#8217;s the refrain from job counselors, coaches, resume writers and HR people. I don&#8217;t buy it, because &#8220;sales&#8221; is misunderstood as a task by most people. They think of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Big Brother &amp; The Employment Industry: &#8220;All your employment are belong to us!&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4235/big-brother-the-employment-industry-all-your-employment-are-belong-to-us</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 16:47:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Suppose that every time you applied for a job, some guy in a little room checked an Excel spreadsheet and notified the employer: &#8220;No interview for this guy. He&#8217;s a bum.&#8221; It&#8217;s already happening. Several years ago I published a series of articles about identity theft via job boards, including a report about Monster.com&#8217;s troubling practices [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Washington Post: Monster.com is no joke any more!</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4138/washington-post-monster-com-is-no-joke-any-more</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4138/washington-post-monster-com-is-no-joke-any-more#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Sep 2011 20:11:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Gimme a break. The Washington Post reports: Monster.com finally vindicated. Say what? Two reseachers, UC Santa Barbara’s Peter Kuhn and UC Denver’s Hani Mansour, asked this question in a study they conducted: Do job hunters who &#8220;use the Internet to look for work&#8221; spend less time unemployed than job hunters who don&#8217;t use the Internet? Guess [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>9</slash:comments>
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		<title>Rude Employers: Yahoo fires CEO Carol Bartz, phones it in</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4057/rude-employers-yahoo-fires-ceo-carol-bartz-phones-it-in</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 15:57:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You know that rude behavior employers dish your way when they recruit you, cajole you, try to woo you, impress you, and interview you &#8212; then won&#8217;t return your calls, much less decide whether to hire you? Now it&#8217;s happened to a C-level executive, CEO Carol Bartz, who was just fired by Yahoo. While Bartz&#8217;s performance, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Running On Empty: TheLadders folds up its shell game</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3784/running-on-empty-theladders-folds-up-its-shell-game</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3784/running-on-empty-theladders-folds-up-its-shell-game#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 21 Jul 2011 16:25:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today TheLadders folded up its shell game and announced that it&#8217;s just another job board. Just last month, TheLadders&#8217; announced its highly-exclusive &#8220;Signature&#8221; service: &#8220;guaranteed job offers&#8221; for &#8220;qualified&#8221; $100k+ job seekers &#8211; for $2,500. Then the &#8220;Executive Jobs&#8221; company started offering its &#8220;Premium Service&#8221; for just $15. In a press release titled &#8220;TheLadders: Now LinkedIn&#8217;s number one competitor,&#8221; TheLadders [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Looking for a job in America: Got a flashlight?</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3697/looking-for-a-job-in-america-got-a-flashlight</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3697/looking-for-a-job-in-america-got-a-flashlight#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:10:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I couldn&#8217;t make this stuff up. A sales director with over 20 years&#8217; experience managing sales teams pays MyJobHunter.com $50 to send out 500 job applications on his behalf. The guy&#8217;s wife&#8217;s beauty salon receives the resume and calls him for an interview. He didn&#8217;t know it, but his &#8220;job hunting agent&#8221; also submitted him for jobs [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>TheLadders: A lipstick pig&#8217;s death rattle?</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3658/theladders-a-lipstick-pigs-death-rattle</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3658/theladders-a-lipstick-pigs-death-rattle#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Jun 2011 03:34:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[TheLadders just keeps rooting around in its pen for scraps of executive job-board revenue. But this looks like a death rattle. There&#8217;s all the posturing: The &#8220;executive resume&#8221; appetizer business (with a side of free critique) didn&#8217;t exactly take off. The promises of &#8220;$100k+&#8221; jobs that turned into&#8230; NOT. CEO Marc Cenedella&#8217;s e-mails to his list &#8212; which it [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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		<title>Unemployment &amp; Poverty: A choice American companies make</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3568/unemployment-poverty-a-choice-american-companies-make</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3568/unemployment-poverty-a-choice-american-companies-make#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 May 2011 14:25:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Making money]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Curt Landi was raised in New Jersey, near Thomas Edison&#8217;s old laboratories. Landi says he used to sneak into one of the abandonned buildings when he was a kid, and wander around, dreaming of becoming an inventor. In the 1980s, Curt and Susan Landi started their company, Supracor, in a tiny Silicon Valley office. Curt invented flexible [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>16</slash:comments>
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		<title>Your Internet Leavings: Do you leave a mess?</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3554/your-internet-leavings-do-you-leave-a-mess</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3554/your-internet-leavings-do-you-leave-a-mess#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 17 May 2011 02:25:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the May 17, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader asks whether what we post on the Net can hurt us. Now that I&#8217;m job hunting, I&#8217;m taking stock of things I&#8217;ve posted around the Net. I wonder if my online writing could hurt my chances of getting hired. I suppose a diligent background [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>18</slash:comments>
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