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		<title>Building a Great Startup Team, Culture and Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Team building is not an easy process for a startup. As one of the creators of WhyHire.me, I sometimes get so caught up in my own ambition of creating my vision that I fail to take a moment to recognize the tremendous weight and responsibility of asking others to join me on this journey.<a href="http://blog.whyhire.me/building-a-great-startup-team-culture-and-experience/" class="cta cta-green"><span class="icon-download">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>The Importance of Working On What You Love</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Nothing truly motivates me more than talking with someone who is working on what they love. It really is infectious. But many people approach their career planning as an analytical exercise about which markets are growing and which professions are in demand.  I know that was my approach when I first moved to Ottawa roughly<a href="http://blog.whyhire.me/the-importance-of-working-on-what-you-love/" class="cta cta-green"><span class="icon-download">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whyhire.me/the-importance-of-working-on-what-you-love/</link>
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		<title>TED &#8211; Part of my Life Long Learning Strategy</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently spoke at the College Association for Language and Literacy (CALL) Conference at Algonquin College on the subject of personal branding and career marketing.  We talked about many issues related to getting students career ready and the production of resumes and online profiles to assist with their career marketing. One topic that came up,<a href="http://blog.whyhire.me/ted-part-of-my-life-long-learning-strategy/" class="cta cta-green"><span class="icon-download">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whyhire.me/ted-part-of-my-life-long-learning-strategy/</link>
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		<title>Collaboration:  Necessity from Now On</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the years, I have been privy to various discussions on the subject of groups, teams, leadership and most recently, collaboration. Let’s first start with groups.  We put students in groups to complete projects but we don’t always give them the skills and guidance to become an effective team.  A group is a collection of<a href="http://blog.whyhire.me/collaboration-necessity-from-now-on/" class="cta cta-green"><span class="icon-download">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
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		<title>Is it Time to Rethink Your Values?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you think about your own life, your values form the cornerstones for all that you do, think, believe, and accomplish. Your values dictate your actions whether you are aware of it or not. When I say values, I’m not talking about “honesty”, “integrity” or any of that standard stuff. I’m talking about what is<a href="http://blog.whyhire.me/is-it-time-to-rethink-your-values/" class="cta cta-green"><span class="icon-download">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whyhire.me/is-it-time-to-rethink-your-values/</link>
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		<title>How Employers Prefer to Find Job Candidates</title>
		<description><![CDATA[“He or she who gets hired is not necessarily the one who can do that job best; but,the one who knows the most about how to get hired.” – Richard Lathrop “What Color is Your Parachute” is considered by many as the most popular job-hunting guide. With well over 10 million copies sold, in 20<a href="http://blog.whyhire.me/how-employers-prefer-to-find-job-candidates/" class="cta cta-green"><span class="icon-download">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whyhire.me/how-employers-prefer-to-find-job-candidates/</link>
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		<title>The Web Is Fair Game for Hiring Due Diligence</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Listen, I usually don’t get frustrated when I read posts, everyone is entitled to their own opinion, however, after reading this article on TLNT.com, I needed to add a few points about social recruiting.  Laurie Ruettimann noted in her article that the HR community shouldn’t use the web during the recruiting process because “social media<a href="http://blog.whyhire.me/the-web-is-fair-game-for-hiring-due-diligence/" class="cta cta-green"><span class="icon-download">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whyhire.me/the-web-is-fair-game-for-hiring-due-diligence/</link>
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		<title>Finding a Job is Becoming a Social Experience</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Referrals Still King It is estimated that half of all jobs are obtained through referrals.   Whether it‘s networking at a professional event, extending relationships with contacts you made online or even asking an old college roommate to refer you to their boss &#8212; finding a job has always contained a social element. And in today’s<a href="http://blog.whyhire.me/finding-a-job-is-becoming-a-social-experience/" class="cta cta-green"><span class="icon-download">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whyhire.me/finding-a-job-is-becoming-a-social-experience/</link>
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		<title>Avoid the Twitter Back Scratch</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyone, repeat after me: it’s okay not to follow someone who follows you. Was that hard? Man, but it feels good to finally get that off our chest, doesn’t it? Really, though, the Twitter version of ‘you scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours’ can seriously affect your brand in a negative way. Think about it.<a href="http://blog.whyhire.me/avoid-the-twitter-back-scratch/" class="cta cta-green"><span class="icon-download">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.whyhire.me/avoid-the-twitter-back-scratch/</link>
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		<title>Before Home Economics and Shop Class</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A tremendous champion of WhyHire.me is Lyle Wetsch at Memorial University in Newfoundland. Lyle is a strong advocate of personal branding and using the web for effective communications and marketing. We got to talking the other day about our respective challenges in the classroom and evangelizing the notion that young, adolescent and post-secondary students today<a href="http://blog.whyhire.me/before-home-economics-and-shop-class/" class="cta cta-green"><span class="icon-download">Read More</span></a>]]></description>
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