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		<title>What did you want to be when you grew up?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[A simple question, right? It should have been, but when Maureen Anderson asked me during a recent guest appearance on her Career Clinic radio show, I didn’t really have an answer. I asked my mom, my aunt, and I also racked my brain to come up with an answer.
Of course, I also got caught up [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com&blog=2015758&post=635&subd=courtingyourcareer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If You Want to be More Enterprising, Think Plural!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 18 Oct 2009 23:41:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Ian Sanders, a business &#38; marketing consultant based in the UK. Ian is the author of &#8220;Juggle! Rethink Work, Reclaim Your Life&#8221; and &#8220;Leap! Ditch Your Job, Start Your Own Business &#38; Set Yourself Free.&#8221;
How do you answer that dinner party question ‘what do you do?’ Do you have [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com&blog=2015758&post=631&subd=courtingyourcareer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What not to wear (or do) at MBA admissions fairs</title>
		<link>http://courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com/2009/09/28/what-not-to-wear-or-do-at-mba-admissions-fairs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Sep 2009 14:37:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been accused over the years of having unrealistically high expectations of people and I’m sure in some cases it’s true. However, the preponderance of things that really make me get hot under the collar are so low on the expectations spectrum, they really are hard for me to wrap my mind around. Which brings [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com&blog=2015758&post=624&subd=courtingyourcareer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Guest appearance on Get Involved! Pittsburgh</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Sep 2009 21:58:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, I was a guest on Get Involved! Pittsburgh, a community access program that’s the brain child of Tom Baker, president of Baker Leadership and author of Get Involved! Making the Most of Your 20s and 30s. 
Other guests included local entrepreneurs Frank Tigano of Superior Sign Service, Mike Rethage of Wider Image, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com&blog=2015758&post=619&subd=courtingyourcareer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Personal Branding vs. Personal Grooming</title>
		<link>http://courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/personal-branding-vs-personal-grooming/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:27:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by Chris Perry, founder of  Career Rocketeer, the Career Search and Personal Branding Blog.
It has always been said that you should not judge a book by its cover.  Appearance isn’t everything, or at least, it shouldn’t be.  In your career search and development, the substance of your personal brand and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com&blog=2015758&post=616&subd=courtingyourcareer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It’s Not Who You Know…It’s Who Knows YOU!</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Sep 2009 10:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a guest post by J.T. O’Donnell, nationally syndicated career strategist and founder of CAREEREALSIM.com.
I was trading e-mails with a colleague, Thomas Parry, founder of a very innovative new local networking program in Greenville, SC called Linking the Upstate. We were discussing new trends in networking and he said, “It’s not who you know, it’s who [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com&blog=2015758&post=608&subd=courtingyourcareer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Brazen Careerist Launch: Twitter meets Facebook meets LinkedIn meets Gen Y…and it’s about time.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 13:18:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The folks at Brazen Careerist realize college students and young professionals aren’t always able to pull from years of previous work experience when marketing themselves to potential employers. And that often puts them at a competitive disadvantage. So, instead of sticking with the status quo, they decided to turn existing traditional online career management tools [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com&blog=2015758&post=596&subd=courtingyourcareer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Interview Attire: Looking Like a Million Bucks, For Significantly Less</title>
		<link>http://courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com/2009/08/12/interview-attire-looking-like-a-million-bucks-for-significantly-less/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 01:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
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Looking to overhaul your interviewing wardrobe on a tight budget? Check out this week&#8217;s guest post from Laura Knepper, fashion guru and owner of LKc Style.

It used to be a handful of people interviewed for a job and the most talented person was clearly ripe for picking. With today’s scary unemployment figures, the pool of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com&blog=2015758&post=574&subd=courtingyourcareer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leveraging References, Referrals, and Inside Connections</title>
		<link>http://courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/references-referrals-and-inside-connections-webinar/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 18:03:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently had the opportunity to serve as a panelist for the References, Referrals and Inside Connections: How to Obtain, Maintain &#38; Use Them to Your Advantage webinar organized by Heather Huhman, entry-level careers columnist for Examiner.com and founder and president of Come Recommended.com.
If you didn’t get a chance to join us, be sure to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com&blog=2015758&post=569&subd=courtingyourcareer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Do post-interview thank you notes really matter?</title>
		<link>http://courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com/2009/07/20/do-post-interview-thank-you-notes-really-matter/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:01:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yes and no.
Why thank yous don’t really matter. Imagine that you’re a recruiter and you identify a candidate who looks to be a total rock star on paper&#8211;he or she has all the right skills, tremendous work experience, and seems to be a great fit for the opening. You bring that person in for an [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=courtingyourcareer.wordpress.com&blog=2015758&post=561&subd=courtingyourcareer&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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