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<title>Judi Perkins - EzineArticles Expert Author</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Judi Perkins, the How-To Career Coach, was a recruiter for 22 years, consulting with hundreds of hiring authorities throughout the hiring process. She's seen over 600,000 resumes and knows how hiring authorities think and how they hire. As many of her clients who have found jobs in 4 - 12 weeks agree, her perspective and method is much different from that of other career coaches, because her unique background results in a very counter-intuitive but holistic approach encompassing skills, psychology, and sales. Clients come to understand why the typical strategies in finding a job so often fail, and learn what ... ]]></description>
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<title>How to Find an Effective Recruiter (It's Not Through the Job Boards)</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Recruiters are getting a bad rap these days, but that's because most people are coming in contact with the ones that are ineffective. The ineffective ones don't fully understand the process and tend to troll the job boards for loose resumes. The way to find a recruiter is to be pro-active and go looking for ones that aren't necessarily in the job board lights. Here are a few ways to accomplish that.]]></description>
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<title>Are You Defensive When You Interview? Part 2</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 08:25:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you're on the defensive when you interview, you're sabotaging your interviews and your job search and probably don't even know it. Your tone of voice, word choice and body language all communicate an entirely different message when you're defensive, and it's not a message that employers are interested in. Here's part 1 of how you can tell, and how you can fix it.]]></description>
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<title>Are You on the Defensive When You Interview?</title>
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<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 14:38:19 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[If you're on the defensive when you interview, you're sabotaging your interviews and your job search and probably don't even know it. Your tone of voice, word choice and body language all communicate an entirely different message when you're defensive, and it's not a message that employers are interested in. Here's part 1 of how you can tell, and how you can fix it.]]></description>
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<title>Is Walking Out of an Interview Okay?</title>
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<description><![CDATA[When can you walk out of an interview?  Is that even an acceptable thing to do?  Does it look bad?  Are you immature?  Unprofessional?  At times, it's not only acceptable, it's smart.  Here's when to do it, how to do it, and why you should, sometimes, do that very thing.]]></description>
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<title>Why Resume Objectives Are Dead</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:07:54 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The point of a resume is to sell your skills and resume objectives don't do that.  They're usually too brief, all about you, and don't provide any information except for perhaps what position you want, possibly accompanies by a bunch of phrases and adjectives like "challenging job" and "responsible position."  Resume objectives are outdated, ineffective, and... well... juvenile.  Here's why and what you should be doing instead.]]></description>
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<title>Why to Avoid Resume Distribution Services</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 10:06:13 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA["Send my resume to thousands of companies for only $89.85?  What a great deal!  I'm sure to get a huge number of interested employers!"  What's wrong with this picture and why?]]></description>
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<title>Lonely Resumes</title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2008 09:58:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[An amazing umber of job seekers submit resumes with no cover letter, no word of explanation, no accompanying information.  Some company sites structure it this way.  But job coaches, recruiters, smaller companies running an ad, don't.  And they want - and expect - a little more than just a resume by itself, which looks like you're going for quantity instead of quality.  Here's why it's not impressive and likely to get you deleted.]]></description>
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<title>Interviewing - The Illusion of Control</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:15:24 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The tendency to make assumptions is dangerous because you're leading yourself down a false path.  It's a self defense mechanism that job searchers use to allay the fear of interviewing: the unknown, the possibility of rejection, the feeling of no control over the outcome.  Most people aren't even aware that they're doing it.]]></description>
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<title>Finding a New Job - When Fear Becomes Inertia</title>
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<pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2008 11:14:23 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Finding a new job can be scary, because it involves a lot of work and usually - and unnecessarily - a lot of rejection.  Whether you never hear back after you've sent in your resume, or whether the company chose someone else after you interviewed, when rejection begins to pile up, it's hard not to take it personally.  Pretty soon you're doing less....and less....and some people have trouble just getting started.]]></description>
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<title>Body Language and Interviewing for a New Job</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 14:15:18 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Everyone knows about body language.  But few people realize how their body language betrays them when they think their words are telling the story they want the interviewer to believe.  It's especially true of those who are insecure, are defensive because they've been interviewing a long time, or have been fired.  Here's how to notice if they're telling different stories and then make sure they're in sync.]]></description>
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<title>Why Wasn't I Hired?  For Every Job Seeker Who Almost Got the Job</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:42:46 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Your interview went well - or so you thought - until you learned the hired someone else.  What did you do wrong?  Why didn't they hire you?  It's hard not to take it personally.  Surely you goofed up somewhere?  Maybe not!  ]]></description>
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<title>What Do You Want In Your New Job?  The Fisher Price Concept of Job Searching</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:21:31 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What do you do when you realize you hate your job and want to find a new one?  Do you stay?  Do you define what you want?  Do you paste your resume on the job boards and sign up for daily alerts? Six months later, are you better off - or not?  Here's how to avoid being a square peg in a round hole.]]></description>
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<title>How To Write A Thank You Letter After An Interview - A Simple Formula for Uniqueness</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:13:51 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Sending a post-interview thank you letter is vital, not only for protocol, but because it's an additional chance to sell yourself.  Skip it and you might as well have skipped the interview.  They're not as tough as you'd think, once you get the hang of it.    ]]></description>
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<title>Why Hiring Companies Use A Recruiter</title>
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<pubDate>Fri, 26 Oct 2007 13:00:08 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Some job seekers don't really understand the value of recruiters to a company.  They're under the impression that because there's a fee involved, companies don't like to use recruiters and only will of they have to.  Here's why that's a fallacy and buying into that can cause you to short-change yourself.]]></description>
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<title>Your Job Search - Do the Opposite!</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 10:49:39 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[People who are looking for a new job are usually very passive in the beginning.  They post their resume and wait for things to come to them.  As time goes by and they become increasingly desperate, the activity increases while focus decreases.  When you're looking to make a job change, you should be actively searching out as many opportunities as possible, and becoming increasingly focused as you narrowing them down.  This decreases your unemployment time and increases the likelihood of finding what you want instead of vice versa.]]></description>
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<title>Honesty in Interviewing</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 10:29:42 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Too many candidates try to hide information because they're afraid it will compromise their chances of being hired.  They hide their employment gaps, the time they were fired, their lack of a particular skill.    But instead of working for them, hiding that information works against them.  It's not if you confess, it's how you phrase it and when you do it.]]></description>
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<title>Are you Pro-Active in You Search for A New Job?  Or Do You Just Think You Are?</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2007 10:00:44 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Finding a job can be a full-time job.  Especially if you're determined to get a job you love and at which you want to stay.  So why do job seekers post their resumes on job boards and wait for things to come them or just answer intermittently look at employment ads?  For so many, this seems to be enough.  But time passes, nothing happens, they become frustrated with unskilled recruiters that contact them and still they do nothing differently, under the impression that they are actually getting themselves out there.  Nothing could be further from the truth.

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<title>Effective &quot;Good&quot; Recruiters and Ineffective &quot;Bad&quot; Recrutiers</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 15:47:55 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Too often candidates aren't selective about the recruiters with whom they work, but that's understandable considering recruiters' perceived power.  But how do you tell if a recruiter is adept at their profession - or just going to waste your time?  A highly successful recruiter of 20-years tells you how to tell the difference. ]]></description>
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<title>Hate Your Job? Here's How It Often Leads to Getting Fired</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 15 Apr 2007 12:36:38 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Ever been fired and it was a complete surprise?  If you have, it shouldn't have been.  Far too often the writing is on the wall, and the employee failed to read it.  Here's how that happens, and how to stop it before it goes too far.]]></description>
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<title>How To Help Your References Get You the Job</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:59:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[The purpose of providing references is to close the deal.  If more job seekers understood this, they wouldn't view the phrase "references provided upon request" so casually.  This article shows you how to help your references help you get the job.]]></description>
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<title>The Meal and Interview Nightmare - How to Interview With Your Mouth Full</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:26:58 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[As if interviewing isn't enough to make you nervous, now the hiring authority wants to do it over lunch.  Now you have to focus on your interviewing skills AND your table manners!  Here's how to balance them both, what's okay and what's not, and how not to embarrass yourself.]]></description>
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<title>How Long Should Your Resume Be?</title>
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<pubDate>Sun, 18 Mar 2007 09:09:52 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[So much debate over resume length: one page, two pages, three pages, four!  What gets read? What doesn't? How long is too long?  The answer to the question: "how long should my resume be?" is...it depends!  So throw the rules out the window.]]></description>
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<title>THe Point of the Interview: Thinking Me, But Talking Them</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2007 13:23:24 -0600</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[What's the real point of the interview?  Who's the interview about?  Are you selling yourself or are you just talking about yourself?  Is there a difference?]]></description>
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<title>Is It A &quot;Growth Oriented&quot; Company?</title>
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<pubDate>Sat, 19 Aug 2006 22:28:35 -0500</pubDate>
<description><![CDATA[Small start-ups are growth oriented, and so are $50B corporations, but there is a great deal of difference between the two.   When you interview, you need to know what the definition of growth looks like to you. Learn how broad the definition of growth can be and why you need to discover and use your definition instead of the ambiguous phrase.  Note - the other 4 parts are: 1.  Right Opportunity 2.  Reputable Company 3.  People Oriented 4.  Progressive Company]]></description>
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