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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 16:14:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a Wetfeet.com blog post this week, blogger Denis Wilson summarized the increasing value employers place on candidate emotional intelligence (EI).  As Wilson noted, more and more employers are evaluating candidate emotional intelligence formally with assessments. Why is this important? Personality has long been the #1 reason employers hire candidate A over candidate B – [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jobsearchu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5376476&amp;post=181&amp;subd=jobsearchu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Jul 2011 13:41:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Lynch Simpson, ACRW, COPNS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The final element of Martin Seligman’s PERMA model is achievement. As described in his 2011 best-seller, Flourish, achievement is about our pursuit of our life goals. How much time do we spend daily pursuing our dreams? From a job search perspective, achievement is the pursuit of the job – how much time daily do you [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jobsearchu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5376476&amp;post=176&amp;subd=jobsearchu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Do You Job Search?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Lynch Simpson, ACRW, COPNS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Meaning is the 4th element of Martin Seligman’s PERMA model, as described in his 2001 best-seller, Flourish. To optimize our flow, our creativity, our productivity, and our well-being, we need to find meaning and purpose in what we do. As I have for each aspect of the PERMA model, I’d like to explore meaning from [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jobsearchu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5376476&amp;post=172&amp;subd=jobsearchu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Leveraging Interpersonal Support in Your Job Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Jul 2011 17:16:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Lynch Simpson, ACRW, COPNS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The third component of Martin Seligman’s PERMA model is Positive Relationships (from his 2011 best-seller, Flourish) – another element that many job seekers overlook in the midst of their searches. Though most job seekers know by now that networking is THE key to a short, successful search, most take a transactional, what’s-in-it-for-me approach rather than [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jobsearchu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5376476&amp;post=168&amp;subd=jobsearchu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 15:19:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Lynch Simpson, ACRW, COPNS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday I took at look at how to use SWOT analysis to boost your job search results based on Martin Seligman’s PERMA model from his 2011 best-seller, Flourish, and James Manktelow’s review. Moving on to the next element of the PERMA model, today I’d like to examine how Engagement, or creative flow, can impact your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jobsearchu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5376476&amp;post=165&amp;subd=jobsearchu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Improve Your Job Search Results with SWOT Analysis</title>
		<link>http://jobsearchu.wordpress.com/2011/07/05/improve-your-job-search-results-with-swot-analysis/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 13:55:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Lynch Simpson, ACRW, COPNS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Positive thinking expert Martin Seligman notes the importance of well-being in his 2011 best-seller, Flourish.  It occurs to me that job searching, consisting as it does of routine upon routine, may drain millions of well-being, particularly for those who have been searching a long time with limited results. Seligman offers the PERMA model as a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jobsearchu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5376476&amp;post=158&amp;subd=jobsearchu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Persistence Really Does Pay Off</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Apr 2011 15:32:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Lynch Simpson, ACRW, COPNS</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Career Branding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A client of mine has been looking for insurance sales jobs and recently tried repeatedly to get in touch with a corporate recruiter. He knew this particular recruiter was sourcing for sales roles in his target geographic area, so he left multiple messages for her after he submitted his resume and cover letter for the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jobsearchu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5376476&amp;post=153&amp;subd=jobsearchu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>6 Common Weaknesses in Mid-Career and Executive Resumes</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2011 19:01:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Lynch Simpson, ACRW, COPNS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I recently partnered with 6FigureJobs.com to review member resumes, so I’ve been spending every spare moment lately assessing the backgrounds and work histories of mid-career professionals and executives. In and of itself this is nothing new for me, but the volume is certainly more intense. What’s remarkable about seeing so many resumes now &#38; throughout [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jobsearchu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5376476&amp;post=147&amp;subd=jobsearchu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Jobs Least Likely to be Outsourced</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 13:52:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Lynch Simpson, ACRW, COPNS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Recruiters Lounge wrote a great post a few months ago worthy of repeat here. Author Jim Stroud tracked down the 10 jobs most and least likely to be outsourced based on the research of Nancy Folbre, a professor at the University of Massachusetts, and data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics. Those jobs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jobsearchu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5376476&amp;post=140&amp;subd=jobsearchu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>3 Ways to End Those Long-Term Job Search Blues</title>
		<link>http://jobsearchu.wordpress.com/2011/01/04/137/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 05 Jan 2011 01:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cheryl Lynch Simpson, ACRW, COPNS</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a recent survey by executive search firm Challenger, Gray, &#38; Christmas, 47.5 percent of respondents indicated they have been looking for work for at least 12 months. I can verify that statistic anecdotally based on the folks I talk to daily – it’s nothing for job seekers to have been searching for 18 months [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=jobsearchu.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5376476&amp;post=137&amp;subd=jobsearchu&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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