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		<title>Leonardo DaVinci&#8217;s resume &#8211; Would you hire him?</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[What can Leonardo DaVinci teach us about resume writing and marketing your skill-set to a potential employer? A lot ...<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashishthakur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=138379&amp;post=164&amp;subd=ashishthakur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<description><![CDATA[I thought I knew a few things about keeping my credit score and building a fantastic history &#8211; I have been misled and here is how as I discovered from a recent Wall Street Journal (WSJ) article. I would strongly recommend that everyone read this and keep a handy note of how your respective scores [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashishthakur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=138379&amp;post=152&amp;subd=ashishthakur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Higher $$ incentives equals lower performance!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 28 Aug 2009 16:36:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love TED and what they have been doing. Don&#8217;t get me wrong a lot of other approaches have been trying to achieve the same, but the quality of stuff that makes it to the TED website is simply jaw-dropping (to me atleast!). Hats off to all technocrats that have showcased ideas and prototypes on [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashishthakur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=138379&amp;post=143&amp;subd=ashishthakur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Followup 1: Questions to ask your interviewer!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Jul 2009 15:02:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a follow up to my (surprisingly!) popular post earlier &#8220;Questions to ask your interviewer!&#8220;, I trolled a bit more and came across some more pertinent and sharp questions, which should help you assess the current state of the position you are in talks for. Not to forget this will definitely help you &#8220;Negotiate your [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashishthakur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=138379&amp;post=138&amp;subd=ashishthakur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Followup 1: Negotiating your salary with an upper hand!</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 15:00:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As part of my ongoing compilation on salary negotiation for my blog posts, I came across an article mentioning a book Negotiating Your Salary: How to Make $1,000 a Minute by Jack Chapman. The article was concise and I believe that it will add on to my previous post on salary negotiations. The original article [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashishthakur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=138379&amp;post=116&amp;subd=ashishthakur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Salary negotiations are an inevitable piece of any job interview. There are possibilities and the hard truth in an &#8220;truly open negotiation&#8221; is this &#8211; its a give and take without getting into a stand-off situation. Multiple factors will influence this little game, namely: Employer side How urgently does the position need to be filled? [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashishthakur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=138379&amp;post=103&amp;subd=ashishthakur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 16:37:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[OK &#8211; the hard work of researching the great job, the company and the harder work of getting your resume in to the right people has FINALLY culminated in a job interview. The interview is going on and your take is that you have a very strong fighting chance at being the in the final [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashishthakur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=138379&amp;post=88&amp;subd=ashishthakur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 15:04:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Excerpted from David Silverman&#8217;s Harvard Business Blog for the benefit of the WordPress community who read my blog posts. As David aptly puts it across &#8220;&#8230; you need to listen and react to the person in the room with you, not slavishly follow any list of rules — I present to you my list of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashishthakur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=138379&amp;post=76&amp;subd=ashishthakur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>50 Interview Questions You Should Know By Heart!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 13:21:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[(From the book &#8220;The Accelerated Job Search&#8221; by Wayne D. Ford, Ph.D, published by The Management Advantage Inc.) 1. Tell me about yourself: The most often asked question in interviews. You need to have a short statement prepared in your mind. Be careful that it does not sound rehearsed. Limit it to work-related items unless [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashishthakur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=138379&amp;post=70&amp;subd=ashishthakur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Car buying stupidities and traps! You have been warned &#8230;</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 14:33:33 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a recent car buyer, I am (as of this writing) fairly armed with a wealth of information and new tricks that would make for a PhD thesis in itself! Confessions of a car salesman &#8211; http://www.edmunds.com/advice/buying/articles/42962/article.html If you have not read the above mentioned article, then STOP EVERYTHING IMMEDIATELY! Its a lengthy article, but [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=ashishthakur.wordpress.com&amp;blog=138379&amp;post=60&amp;subd=ashishthakur&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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