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		<title>How much should I say about getting fired?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 02:55:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the January 31, 2012 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader asks what to say in a job interview &#8212; if he got fired previously for doing something wrong: I was fired for a minor policy violation. How much should I tell prospective employers about it? Everyone I&#8217;ve spoken to has agreed that my indiscretion did [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Playing With Headhunters</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:51:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the January 24, 2012 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader gets calls from two different headhunters &#8212; who want to &#8220;submit&#8221; him for what seems to be the same job. How many headhunters should he work with? A headhunter called yesterday about an interesting position. She is not ready to reveal her client until [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Open Mic: What&#8217;s your problem?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:28:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Special Edition I periodically do webinars and teleconferences for professionals, where I make a brief presentation &#8212; then we have an &#8220;open microphone.&#8221; Anyone may ask any question about job hunting or hiring, and I do my best to provide useful advice on the spot. I love doing such events because I don&#8217;t have to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Get Hired: No resume, no interview, no joke</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Jan 2012 02:47:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the January 10, 2012 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a long-time reader ruminates about how stupid the recruiting and hiring process seems to have become. Employers aren&#8217;t really looking for talent &#8212; they&#8217;re shopping for mediocrity, using lists of keywords: I&#8217;m a career changer and I&#8217;m finding it very hard to get past the recruiting agency [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>When should you bring up money?</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4489/when-should-you-bring-up-money</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the December 13, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a long-time reader asks whether it&#8217;s okay to discuss salary range with a headhunter before taking time out of a busy work schedule to interview: I&#8217;m a long-time reader. This is my second-time question &#8212; the last one was in 2004! I&#8217;ve just been headhunted for a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>How Employers Can Help You Get Hired</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4461/how-employers-can-help-you-get-hired</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 02:21:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the December 6, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader who helps seniors find jobs shares an &#8220;interview invitation&#8221; one of his clients received. It&#8217;s a landmark! Why don&#8217;t more employers do this? Join me below to discuss other ways employers can help you get hired. I&#8217;m a training and placement specialist and a [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>You&#8217;ll never get hired if you&#8217;re self-employed</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4416/youll-never-get-hired-if-youre-self-employed</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Nov 2011 02:07:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the November 29, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader who&#8217;s run a business for years wants to know whether it&#8217;s true that the self-employed are unemployable. I was on a discussion forum today where the consensus is that you&#8217;ll never get hired if you&#8217;ve been self-employed. Is that true? I have had my [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>40</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jumping Employment Gaps</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4401/jumping-employment-gaps</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 01:45:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://corcodilos.com/blog/?p=4401</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the November 22, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a successful executive who took time off then worked as a consultant says headhunters won&#8217;t touch him. What&#8217;s up? I was an executive with a financial services software company for 20 years. I joined when it was a start-up. After the company was sold, I took a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The employer that rejected me made a mistake!</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4222/the-employer-that-rejected-me-made-a-mistake</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the October 25, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a job candidate explains that an employer made a mistake when it hired another applicant. He wants advice about how to help the employer rectify the mistake. Don&#8217;t laugh &#8212; it&#8217;s easy to get caught in this trap of frustration. I recently made a lateral move [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>How to manage gang-up interviews</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4199/how-to-manage-gang-up-interviews</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 01:13:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the October 18, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a manager indicts &#8220;panel&#8221; interviews and says he&#8217;d never consent to one &#8212; or conduct one. Are panel interviews a bad idea? I was taken aback recently when my HR department scheduled me as a part of a panel interview. When I queried our hiring team, they [...]]]></description>
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