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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>
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		<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>Pissing on the applicant</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:52:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a private response to HR&#8217;s #1 job: Poisoning the well?, a reader sent me this question: Is there any point in attempting to negotiate with thug companies that agree on a rate, say they&#8217;re going to extend an offer, then the offer comes in at 66% of what you thought was a done deal? [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>8</slash:comments>
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		<title>Stupid interview animals: No soap, RADIO!</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/2034/stupid-interview-animals-no-soap-radio</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/2034/stupid-interview-animals-no-soap-radio#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Aug 2010 21:43:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Interviewing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[MediaBistro led me to the latest career advice in Fortune.com&#8217;s Ask Annie column: Employer&#8217;s Wacky Interview Questions. I don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s wackier: the questions, or that Annie Fisher really believes that the mission of career advisors is to come up with clever answers for them. Get this question from an Ask Annie reader: Yesterday an interviewer [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>TheLadders: Would DaVinci buy a resume from Marc Cenedella?</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/1590/theladders-would-davinci-buy-a-resume-from-marc-cenedella</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:48:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Heads up]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[When is TheLadders&#8217; CEO Marc Cenedella gonna give it up? This latter-day P.T. Barnum knows no shame. On January 21, 2010 I posted How to apply for a job: The Working Resume, highlighting a job application Leonardo DaVinci sent to the Duke of Milan. (DaVinci&#8217;s letter was brought to my attention by reader Phil Hey.) I [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>An open question to Robert McGovern, CEO Jobfox</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/1236/an-open-question-to-robert-mcgovern-ceo-jobfox</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2009 23:27:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Dear Robert, I just went to the Jobfox web site to send you an e-mail, but your profile page doesn&#8217;t provide an e-mail link. I wasted only about two minutes searching elsewhere on the site but gave up. Figured I&#8217;d just post a note to you here on my own blog. (You are welcome to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>5</slash:comments>
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		<title>TheLadders&#8217; Marc Cenedella makes a phone call</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/1080/theladders-marc-cenedella-makes-a-phone-call</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 25 Oct 2009 22:22:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Paying members of TheLadders often shoot off angry e-mails to CEO Marc Cenedella and complain he never responds. Ask The Headhunter readers sometimes send me copies of these e-mail exchanges (along with their rants about Ladders). Here&#8217;s a typical response that Ladders customers receive from customer service, when they complain that Cenedella is not replying to [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>Overqualified Applicants: We are terrified of you</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/1072/overqualified-applicants-we-are-terrified-of-you</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/1072/overqualified-applicants-we-are-terrified-of-you#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:49:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hiring]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I don&#8217;t know whether the New York Times is trying to shed light on the growing unemployment situation or to poke fun at job hunters and employers. In a story yesterday ($13 an Hour? 500 Sign Up, 1 Wins a Job) the Times tells about a trucking company that ran a job posting on CareerBuilder&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Marc Cenedella sells e-mails, $30/month!</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/600/marc-cenedella-sells-e-mails-30month</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/600/marc-cenedella-sells-e-mails-30month#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 26 Jun 2009 00:07:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A reader (&#8220;Michael&#8221;) who is fed up with TheLadders sent along a copy of an e-mail he received a couple of days ago from Marc Cenedella, CEO of TheLadders. Cenedella sends these pep talks to his &#8220;members&#8221; several times a week. For those of you who are scratching your heads, this e-mail is the product. This [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>11</slash:comments>
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		<title>H-1B: Offshoring bites back (or just bites?)</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/584/h-1b-offshoring-bites-back-or-just-bites</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/584/h-1b-offshoring-bites-back-or-just-bites#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:50:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[For Managers]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[So what&#8217;s new with offshoring IT work nowadays? Have overseas costs begun to outstrip the value of offshoring? Has the U.S. economy triggered re-thinking the offshore strategy? I&#8217;ve contended for a long time that as technical &#8220;stars&#8221; start to develop their careers in India and elsewhere, they&#8217;re not gonna be very happy staying on the farm&#8230; [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>7</slash:comments>
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		<title>Jobs, jobs everywhere</title>
		<link>http://corcodilos.com/blog/533/jobs-jobs-everywhere</link>
		<comments>http://corcodilos.com/blog/533/jobs-jobs-everywhere#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 19 May 2009 23:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Nick Corcodilos</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Job Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Toby Dayton nails the problem: Jobs, jobs everywhere, but not an offer to be had. Twitter is the new channel &#8212; companies are paying to tweet their jobs? Coke oughta get into the act: Post them under bottletops or on can lids. (Who cares if the job gets filled by the time you flip the [...]]]></description>
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