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		<title>Netflix: Another stupid employer</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/5153/netflix-another-stupid-employer</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 May 2012 15:11:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Netflix bungled its business last year and ticked off lots of its customers, who quickly cancelled the service. It was a case study of a business and public relations disaster. Now Netflix is at it again &#8212; this time by advertising for &#8220;recent college graduates&#8221; to fill jobs anyone could do. Age discrimination anyone? The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The First Job Interview</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/5040/the-first-job-interview</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Mar 2012 14:47:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a hidden valley many thousands of years ago&#8230; &#8220;So, where do you see yourself in 50 moons&#8217; time?&#8221; &#160; : :]]></description>
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		<title>Move Over H-1B: Make way for L-1 visas</title>
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		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/5015/move-over-h-1b-make-way-for-l-1-visas#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Mar 2012 23:41:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The H-1B visa is well-known in technology circles: U.S. employers use it to hire temporary foreign workers in &#8220;specialty occupations.&#8221; Engineers and Information Technology (IT) workers have long complained that the H-1B program takes jobs away from Americans. While H-1B requires employees to be paid the prevailing wage, some argue that employers actually pay lower [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Facebook: Pimping your cred to employers?</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4966/facebook-pimping-your-cred-to-employers</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4966/facebook-pimping-your-cred-to-employers#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:14:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Q: At what point will Facebook start selling your &#8220;timeline&#8221; to employers who will be as happy to pay for it as they are to pay for access to your online resume? A: When is Facebook&#8217;s IPO? There&#8217;s a news story that&#8217;s made the rounds in several media outlets. It&#8217;s about employers that demand a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>23</slash:comments>
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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>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4433/sales-source-the-best-sales-blog-for-job-hunters#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4235/big-brother-the-employment-industry-all-your-employment-are-belong-to-us#comments</comments>
		<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>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4057/rude-employers-yahoo-fires-ceo-carol-bartz-phones-it-in#comments</comments>
		<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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