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		<title>Banks</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 02:19:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne LaRose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A bank is a bank is a bank is a bank, right? All of them allow you to bring your money to them to hold until you need to use it. All of them pay you interest for letting them use your money. All of them make loans to you for various types of commerce. Maybe that isn't the case. Maybe that's an oversimplification.

Whatever it is, another thing you begin to think about is what it's like to work for one of them. It seems with the homogeneity of all of them, it wouldn't make a lot of difference which one to choose. What goes on in one is what happens in another.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=491956&amp;post=220&amp;subd=thedesk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>It&#8217;s The Season</title>
		<link>http://thedesk.wordpress.com/2011/09/19/its-the-season/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 Sep 2011 23:27:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne LaRose</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[career advancement]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For those of you who want to return to the Retail Industry, you may want to consider applying at Target before The Season begins or find a way to interview with the understanding that you're not interested in seasonal work. Target is hiring.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=491956&amp;post=216&amp;subd=thedesk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Career Tip: Rethinking Unemployment</title>
		<link>http://thedesk.wordpress.com/2011/09/05/career-tip-rethinking-unemployment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 21:54:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne LaRose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Job Search]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last month we took a look at <a href="http://thedesk.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/how-to-best-explain-a-gap-in-employment/">explaining gaps in employment</a>. We talked about explaining the phenomenon called "unemployment." No matter how we look at it at first blush, being unemployed carries negative connotations.

Or does it? Perhaps we should start looking at periods of unemployment from a new perspective and with a new mind set. It's time for us to apply a new definition to that word.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=491956&amp;post=213&amp;subd=thedesk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>10 Best Value Places to Live</title>
		<link>http://thedesk.wordpress.com/2011/09/04/10-best-value-places-to-live/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:36:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne LaRose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to knowing where to live and find work, it&#8217;s difficult to find a place. We normally think of the typical big cities with large populations. We believe those meccas have a lot to offer in terms of things to do, job opportunities, nearby vacation and normal entertainment, education, and so on. This [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=491956&amp;post=210&amp;subd=thedesk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to best explain a gap in employment</title>
		<link>http://thedesk.wordpress.com/2011/08/09/how-to-best-explain-a-gap-in-employment/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Aug 2011 19:54:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne LaRose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Job Search]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[experience]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[interview]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[How to best explain a gap in employment. A very useful article for getting the Thinking Cap on your head and your head in the right place. Not every interview question is an indictment of you and your history. In fact (and as author Patti  Sinacole says), each question is an opportunity. The underlying statement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=491956&amp;post=204&amp;subd=thedesk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Vocabulary Builder: Budget Issues</title>
		<link>http://thedesk.wordpress.com/2011/07/12/vocabulary-builder-budget-issues/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 20:48:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne LaRose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I usually post a weekly Vocabulary Builder to the &#8220;Classes &#38; Trainings&#8221; folder of the Bulletins portion of my site. The psychology is that people use terms but they don&#8217;t always mean the same thing to different people or in different situations. The result is strained, or even no, communication but a lot of confusion. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=491956&amp;post=196&amp;subd=thedesk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Most Popular Jobs</title>
		<link>http://thedesk.wordpress.com/2011/03/04/most-popular-jobs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Mar 2011 22:45:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne LaRose</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Job Search]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[analytical jobs]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Career Guide to Industries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[humanitarian jobs]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Payscale published a new article on popular jobs and promote it in their current newsletter. The article&#8217;s title is &#8220;10 Most Popular Jobs and What They Pay.&#8221; There are some interesting things to note about these ten job titles. Let&#8217;s take a look at them and then I&#8217;ll leave you to explore the content of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=491956&amp;post=186&amp;subd=thedesk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Career Tip: In the Positive Mode</title>
		<link>http://thedesk.wordpress.com/2011/02/11/career-tip-in-the-positive-mode/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Feb 2011 23:38:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne LaRose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It's extremely important to stick to the formalities of the brick and mortar workplace in attitude, dress, and speech.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=491956&amp;post=166&amp;subd=thedesk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Using Your Skills and Networks</title>
		<link>http://thedesk.wordpress.com/2011/01/05/using-your-skills-and-networks/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 06 Jan 2011 00:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne LaRose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[He's using his intelligence to help him leverage himself and his talents to beat down the prejudices and stigma toward a person in his temporary circumstances and start his journey down the road to his personal success as he defines it. He's availing himself of the assistance provided by his virtual network on Reddit to gain the reach he needs to market himself.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=491956&amp;post=159&amp;subd=thedesk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Career Tip: Display the Awards</title>
		<link>http://thedesk.wordpress.com/2010/12/28/career-tip-display-the-awards/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 06:37:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Yvonne LaRose</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[How could she rise to the heights she deserved if she literally hid everything she'd done to deserve, to earn, the next step in her life and the limelight and the accolades that she merited. It was time for her to come out of the closet <b>with</b> the awards.<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=thedesk.wordpress.com&amp;blog=491956&amp;post=154&amp;subd=thedesk&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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