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		<title>Expanding your target audience</title>
		<link>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/07/expanding-your-target-audience/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Jul 2008 02:31:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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In many of my blogs I have advised you to concentrate your efforts on the 15-25 corporations for which you are likely to be the preferred job seeker. So what if you want to move to another industry or role? What if you have not yet had a job offer in your preferred target group [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job-Hunting over the age of 45</title>
		<link>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/07/job-hunting-over-the-age-of-45/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 20 Jul 2008 15:09:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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I am in my 50s. Yes, age bias exists and, yes, it is illegal. You won’t always be able to avoid it. But age bias is sometimes not really about your actual age, it is about certain soft skills and attitudes that employers desire but older employees are less likely to value. And if you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Create a personal Board of Directors</title>
		<link>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/06/create-a-personal-board-of-directors/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2008 19:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Your long term career goals are much more likely to be achieved if you create group of advisors you respect that you can check in with periodically. These are not &#8220;friends&#8221; who will agree without question with your rationale about why your career is at the stage it is. These are business people you hold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lying on Resumes and in Interviews</title>
		<link>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/06/lying-on-resumes-and-in-interviews/</link>
		<comments>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/06/lying-on-resumes-and-in-interviews/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Jun 2008 02:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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The simple answer? Don&#8217;t do it.

I have seen national studies that claimed about 70% of resumes have &#8220;mistruths&#8221; in them.
Other studies state 25-50% of resumes have &#8220;embellishments&#8221; (an exaggeration but not lie.)

The most common lies:

Length of employment gaps
Titles
Degrees completed
Salary
Reason for leaving
Not mentioning a job from which you were fired
Taking credit for an idea developed by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don’t be lost in a pile of resumes!</title>
		<link>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/06/don%e2%80%99t-be-lost-in-a-pile-of-resumes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/06/don%e2%80%99t-be-lost-in-a-pile-of-resumes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 03:41:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[Cover Letter]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[job ads]]></category>

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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.placementgenius.com/?p=94</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[I see too many resumes that show the minimum skills required by a job ad but don&#8217;t show how well the job applicant performed the tasks or why this candidate is a better risk to interview and hire than other applicants with the same skills. If you are guilty of this, you have qualified your [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Counteroffers benefit the employer not you</title>
		<link>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/05/counteroffers-benefit-the-employer-not-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/05/counteroffers-benefit-the-employer-not-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 May 2008 04:13:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[getting ahead]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[giving notice]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[merit pay]]></category>

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Fact: 70% of executives who accept a counteroffer are gone from that employer within 6 months.
Fact: 85% of executives who accept are gone within 18 months.

A counteroffer is an offer made by an employer in order to keep you on after you have given notice.
The most frequent counteroffers strategies include:

a promise     [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Hunting in a Distant City</title>
		<link>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/05/job-hunting-in-a-distant-city/</link>
		<comments>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/05/job-hunting-in-a-distant-city/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2008 01:56:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[housing]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[moving]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[professional association]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[realtor]]></category>

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		<category><![CDATA[relocating]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[relocation]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[reputation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the current housing market, most clients will avoid trying to move someone. I have worked with job-seekers who had an offer in a new city but then were told by realtors it would be 8-12 months before they could expect to sell their house in the previous location. Unless you are very senior, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Security in Recession and Getting Ahead In Any Market - Part II</title>
		<link>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/04/job-security-in-recession-and-getting-ahead-in-any-market-part-ii/</link>
		<comments>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/04/job-security-in-recession-and-getting-ahead-in-any-market-part-ii/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2008 01:11:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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Selling Yourself to Management
As I said in my last post, as a recruiter, I am not actually seeing any evidence of a Recession outside of the financial industry. However, many of the strategies that protect you in a bad market also improve your status with in a good market.

Network      to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Job Security in Recession and Getting Ahead In Any Market - Part I</title>
		<link>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/04/job-security-in-recession-and-getting-ahead-in-any-market-part-i/</link>
		<comments>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/04/job-security-in-recession-and-getting-ahead-in-any-market-part-i/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 02:45:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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Jobs to Target
As a recruiter, I am not actually seeing any evidence of a Recession although that may change. I am seeing a mixed market, but that has been true since 9/11/01. The most obvious exception is the Financial companies which have been disproportionately affected by the mortgage market defaults. Whether or not we evolve [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Empowering Your Family and Friends to Network for You</title>
		<link>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/04/empowering-your-family-and-friends-to-network-for-you/</link>
		<comments>http://www.placementgenius.com/2008/04/empowering-your-family-and-friends-to-network-for-you/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 06:34:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Pat O'Donnell</dc:creator>
		
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		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>

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This is one if my favorite networking stories and it shows the power of enlisting family and friends to help.
A man I was counseling, we will call him Max, was on his way to a Hanukkah celebration where there would be 50 family members. He had been out of work for several months, working only [...]]]></description>
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