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	<description>Discussions and thoughts on IT Recruiting, the Candidate Experience, and the Job Search</description>
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		<title>Guest Post: How to Turn Weak Ties into Solid Job Leads by Kevin Donlin</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Kevin Donlin is co-author of Guerrilla Resumes. Since 1996, he has provided job-search help to more than 20,000 people. Author of 3 books, Kevin has been interviewed by The New York Times, USA Today, Fox News, CBS Radio and others. 
In his 1973 article, &#8220;The Strength of Weak Ties,&#8221; sociologist Mark Granovetter, after interviewing dozens [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2010/02/guest-post-how-to-turn-weak-ties-into-solid-job-leads-by-kevin-donlin/</link>
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		<title>Do you really need a resume?  How to become uber-marketable</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So I ran across an article the other day by Seth Godin, why bother having a resume?  I didn&#8217;t really think much about it at the time, but a few weeks went by and I started thinking more and more about the standard resume/job search/interview process.  It works, at times, but only a [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2010/02/do-you-really-need-a-resume-how-to-become-uber-marketable/</link>
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		<title>Guest Post: Who&#8217;s Hiring in Technology &#8211; Revisited</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author Byline:  CareerAlley
Author Website: http://careeralley.com
&#8220;UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.&#8221; - Dennis Ritchie
Statistics, we love to quote them. And you know what they say &#8211; &#8220;so many statistics, so little time&#8221;. But there are some interesting statistics regarding Tech jobs like, did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2010/01/guest-post-whos-hiring-in-technology-revisited/</link>
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		<title>Employment predictions for 2010</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tis&#8217; the season for predictions into 2010.  After researching data from various sources, and talking with many colleagues over the past year and into 2010, I&#8217;ve put my finger on a handful of things that popped out at me.  None of these predictions are groundbreaking, they&#8217;re fairly common sense.  But, I think [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2010/01/employment-predictions-for-2010/</link>
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		<title>Guest Post: Recruitment Social Media – Are you Being Left Behind?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author Byline:  Nicole Bodem, Career Site Optimization Strategist
Author Website: http://www.hrsearchmarketing.com
A few days back I saw the first ever job posting on Indeed advertising for a “Talent Community Manager”. (Kudos to Deluxe for taking a huge step forward in recruiting and leveraging this opportunity). Using social media for recruitment takes time, technology and people and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2009/11/guest-post-recruitment-social-media-%e2%80%93-are-you-being-left-behind/</link>
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		<title>LinkedIn Invitation Etiquette</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Author Byline:  Jessica Holbrook is an expert resume writer, career and personal branding strategist, author, and presenter.
Author Website: http://www.greatresumesfast.com
Lately I have noticed a flurry of LinkedIn invitation activity. What bothers me is not the amount of invitations being sent or received but how users are going about the invitation process. So I&#8217;ve put together [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2009/11/linkedin-invitation-etiquette/</link>
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		<title>Another quick/simple tip to improve the candidate experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I talk about honesty a lot, I think it&#8217;s imperative in any kind of business.  If you&#8217;re deceitful and untrustworthy as a consulting recruiter, nobody will work with you.  I&#8217;ve always been very pro-candidate in my career, meaning I always looked out for the best interest of the candidate no matter what.  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2009/10/another-quicksimple-tip-to-improve-the-candidate-experience/</link>
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		<title>The &#8220;Consultant Blueprint&#8221; &#8211; the intangibles of a successful consultant (part 2)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the continuation of my first post, The &#8220;Consultant Blueprint&#8221; (part 1).  To refresh you, I&#8217;ve come up with 13 intangibles of consulting success throughout the years.  These are critical skills to be able to learn and adopt in order to become uber marketable.  You don&#8217;t have to have ALL the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2009/09/the-consultant-blueprint-the-intangibles-of-a-successful-consultant-part-2/</link>
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		<title>A simple tip to improve the candidate experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahh, my poor bro-in-law, on the streets looking for a job again.  I feel for him.  He&#8217;s a college grad, but came out of college at a terrible time, and has bounced around from temp job to temp job for a while.  He has a little experience in the mortgage biz now, [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2009/09/a-tip-to-improve-the-candidate-experience/</link>
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		<title>The Consultant &#8220;Blueprint&#8221; &#8211; the intangibles of a successful consultant (part 1)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been an IT recruiter in some aspect now for over 10 years. In my daily trials and tribulations, I&#8217;ve worked with, met, interviewed, hired/placed hundreds, if not thousands of consultants and employees. Over the years, I&#8217;ve learned that certain consultants have a knack for always getting extended at clients, and always finding a gig [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.recruitingmanifesto.com/2009/09/the-consultant-blueprint-the-intangibles-of-a-successful-consultant-part-1/</link>
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