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		<title>Salary &#8211; Your First Negotiation  &#8211; Part 1 (of 2)</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 21:02:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The first person you will need to negotiate salary with is your own self. Before looking at what the world out there will pay you, let&#8217;s look at three questions from an internal perspective: 1. What do you need? People often hedge on this one because they worry about losing out if they &#8220;need too [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The 3 Ways a Resume is Read</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Dec 2011 05:18:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I create a resume for a client, I think strategically about how one&#8217;s resume will be read and have come to recognize that a resume gets read (at least) 3 different ways. I don&#8217;t think very many people know/consider this. 1) The first read is when all the resumes received are being quickly scanned [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Legitimate home-business solutions for non-working parents or disabled individuals?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 12 Nov 2011 22:18:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[For non-working parents or disabled individuals; these are people who are dealing with a distraction or a limitation, so they would be better served by work where they get paid by the piece or project completed as opposed to work where their pay is determined by the amount of time they put in. The best [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Perfect grammer will not save you</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In my business as a resume writer, one of my serious pet peeves is the blurbs that ridicule people&#8217;s resume writing attempts. You may or may not have seen them, they make the rounds of emails and get published as filler in career magazines and campus newspapers. They are presented with the attitude of &#8220;You&#8217;d [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Use your own words&#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 21:16:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selected as &#8220;Best Answer&#8221; to a question in the Resume Writing Category at LinkedIn Link to Linkedin entry What a good resume does is capture the &#8220;voice&#8221; of the person it represents, so that when they show up for the interview it is as if they are sitting down to continue a conversation that has [...]]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;Good communication skills&#8221;&#8230;What does that mean?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 05:02:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;They say that one must have good communication skills to excel in whatever they want to do or achieve.&#8221; Ironically, this statement sounds good but falls apart upon closer inspection. First, it is too generic. It might be similar to say &#8220;to get somewhere, one needs to be able to travel.&#8221; That form of travel, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How do you describe British qualifications to an American audience</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 May 2010 05:34:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selected as Best Answer to a question in the Resume Writing category of LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/answers/career-education/resume-writing/CAR_RSW/229871-13686315 The objective of an employer is to ensure one has the qualifications to do the job they are hiring for. If one has some solid work experience in the field already, showing their hons (or for Americans, their GPA) becomes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Loss in Salary From a Layoff: What &#8220;the Study&#8221; says VS. What I&#8217;ve seen</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Jun 2009 21:51:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recently released study out of Columbia University, as reported by the Chicago Times, says: People who lost stable jobs in 1982 suffered an immediate 30 percent drop in their earnings, according to Social Security and other government records. As a group, they never recovered. A decade later, their earnings were down 20 percent compared [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What makes a good cover letter?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 05:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Karen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Selected as Best Answer to a question in the Resume Writing category at LinkedIn http://www.linkedin.com/answers/career-education/resume-writing/CAR_RSW/230941-22448691 Don&#8217;t waste the reader&#8217;s time. If it sounds trite to you, it will sound trite and insincere to the reader. I don&#8217;t know your specific situation so let me outline some typical scenarios: 1. You don&#8217;t know anything about the [...]]]></description>
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