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	<title>Ask The Headhunter® &#124; Nick Corcodilos &#187; Stupid HR Tricks</title>
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		<title>HR Wags The Dog</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/5166/hr-wags-the-dog</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 01:03:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Managers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the May 21, 2012 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, an executive who&#8217;s about to be interviewed by another executive wants to know why HR is sticking its nose into the process: You are going to love this. (NOT!) I was contacted by an ex-colleague to ask if I&#8217;d be interested in the position of Regional [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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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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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>Recruitomatic &amp; The Social Jerk (Or: Why you hate recruiters)</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4570/recruitomatic-the-social-jerk-or-why-you-hate-recruiters</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This week we started a &#8220;pound Nick with questions&#8221; thread &#8212; and you&#8217;ve been pounding! Great questions and topics &#8212; and pointed insights. A recurring theme on that thread is recruiters &#8212; the inept, the inane, the ones who waste your time, and the ones who leave you frustrated and angry. (There are good recruiters out there, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Half-Assed Recruiting: Why employers can&#8217;t find talent</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4375/half-assed-recruiting-why-employers-cant-find-talent</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/4375/half-assed-recruiting-why-employers-cant-find-talent#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:05:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting in the door]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the November 15, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a job hunter who tries to take a personal approach to an employer is told to &#8220;go tell it to our website&#8221; in order to comply with federal rules: Nick, this is a new one to me. Do we really need to apply online for positions [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</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>Rude Employers: Slam-Bam-Thank-You-Ma&#8217;m</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3761/rude-employers-slam-bam-thank-you-mam</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3761/rude-employers-slam-bam-thank-you-mam#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 21:49:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rude employers who don&#8217;t bother to follow up with job candidates after interviews, even after promising a hiring decision within X number of days, are a staple topic on Ask The Headhunter. And it&#8217;s no wonder &#8212; job applicants are fed up with, &#8220;Hurry up and submit your application! Hurry up and fill out the forms! [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>14</slash:comments>
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		<title>Salary History: Can you afford to say NO?</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3686/salary-history-can-you-afford-to-say-no</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3686/salary-history-can-you-afford-to-say-no#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 01:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting in the door]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the July 12, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a job hunter questions whether it&#8217;s prudent &#8212; or even possible, when forced to use an online form &#8212; to say NO to an employer that demands your salary history: I read your article “Keep Your Salary Under Wraps.” While I found it to be an [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>49</slash:comments>
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		<title>Presumptuous Employers: Is this HR, or Proctology?</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3008/presumptuous-employers-is-this-hr-or-proctology</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/3008/presumptuous-employers-is-this-hr-or-proctology#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Mar 2011 01:16:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting in the door]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the March 29, 2011 Ask The Headhunter Newsletter, a reader complains that employers&#8217; demands are very inappropriate. She says she&#8217;s applying for a job &#8212; not a loan. What&#8217;s up with consent forms to access personal credit records and other private information? I had a good phone interview for a job that seems interesting. I&#8217;m visiting them [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>54</slash:comments>
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		<title>Work for free, or no interview for you!</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/2675/work-for-free-or-no-interview-for-you</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/2675/work-for-free-or-no-interview-for-you#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Getting in the door]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my favorite job-advice pundits is The Evil HR Lady, Suzanne Lucas, who calls &#8216;em as she sees &#8216;em. In her current post, Job Interview or Bake-Off?, she deals with the subject of employers who tease job hunters with interviews&#8230; if only they will do some free work first. Say what? It happens more [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>15</slash:comments>
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		<title>TheLadders&#8217; Marc Cenedella: Burying the pig</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/2572/theladders-marc-cenedella-burying-the-pig</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/2572/theladders-marc-cenedella-burying-the-pig#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Jan 2011 01:13:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not content to promise more than he can deliver, and still happy to charge money for nothing (that you can&#8217;t get elsewhere for free), TheLadders&#8217; CEO Marc Cenedella conducts an inspection of his members with his latest missive: &#8220;So my colleagues here at TheLadders and I want to make your job search strategy as attractive [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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