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	<description>Tips and Tools for Managing Your Career</description>
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		<title>Lessons for a Successful Career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s surprising, frustrating, and disappointing when our strengths, (“I’m so organized;” “I’m very decisive”), turn out to be our weaknesses (“He’s so compulsive!” “She’s so dictatorial!”).  Do any of the following apply to you?
Career lesson #1:  No one likes the smartest kid in the room if the smartest kid makes other kids look dumb.
When you’re [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richmanresources.com/managing-career-lessons-for-successful-career</link>
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		<title>Joyce Richman Speaks to Students at B&#8217;nai Shalom Day School</title>
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Career and Executive Coach, Joyce Richman visited B&#8217;nai Shalom Day School on February 23, 2010 to share information about the Myers Briggs personal style inventory.
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		<link>http://www.richmanresources.com/joyce-richman-speaks-to-students-at-bnai-shalom-day-school</link>
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		<title>It&#8217;s a Match Game: Strengths to Company&#8217;s Needs</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Pete&#8217;s miserable. Miserable. Said that he can&#8217;t remember feeling worse. He&#8217;s stuck with a nowhere job at a nowhere company doing work he was doing five years ago and he was bored with it then.
How did he get into this mess and how does he get out?
He had a great career (his words, not mine) [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richmanresources.com/match-game-strengths-company-needs</link>
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		<title>Job Search After a Felony</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Q: “I’ve recently been released from prison and want to get back into my profession. I’ve been trying to re hone my skills but given my felony record am I just spinning my wheels? What do I say when I’m asked about the lapse in my employment?
A. You’re not spinning your wheels, you will find [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richmanresources.com/questions-from-readers-job-search-after-felony</link>
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		<title>Professional Maturity vs. Social Sophistication</title>
		<description><![CDATA[He said that he was impatient, hard driving, focused, bottom-line. That he had trouble with people who wanted to think aloud, taking everyone’s time, noodling about what ought to have been immediately clear to everyone present. That his idea was good, it was the right thing to do and the right time to do it. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richmanresources.com/communication-professional-maturity-social-sophistication</link>
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		<title>Unrealistic Fear</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tom (Dick, or Harry) has a problem. He&#8217;s in way over his head. Competent, well educated, articulate, he&#8217;s scared of the slippery slope that lies ahead. He could veer off the path, but he&#8217;s chosen to stay the course. And he&#8217;s relieved it will soon be over. They’re going to fire him, he just knows [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richmanresources.com/managing-career-unrealistic-fear</link>
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		<title>Job Concerns Living Inside the Head of a Person Near You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Do any of these job hunting concerns live inside the head of a person near you?

I’m interested in so many things, I can’t settle on just one.
If I’m so smart, how come no one is offering me a job?
I’d do real well on an interview, I just don’t know how to get one.
I’d get hired [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richmanresources.com/job-search-concerns-inside-your-head</link>
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		<title>My Boss and I Absolutely Do Not Get Along!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A reader asks this question:
&#8220;I have an ordeal I&#8217;m dealing with and need your advice. I&#8217;ve been at my current position for one year and greatly enjoy the people I work with except for my boss. We don’t click at all. It seems like I can never do one thing to please her. I&#8217;m in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richmanresources.com/readers-questions-my-boss-hates-me</link>
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		<title>New Year’s Resolutions</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It was hard to find much to cheer about in 2009. People and institutions seemed to let us down on a regular basis. Rather than place blame, let’s figure out what we can do to make 2010 a better year than the one we just left.
Get better. Get better at making promises, keeping promises and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richmanresources.com/action-plan-new-year%e2%80%99s-resolutions</link>
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		<title>Is the &#8220;Tough Gal&#8221; on the Derailment Track?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This gal is tough. She’s smart, quick, aggressive, and focused. You better know what you’re doing or she’ll nail you, whether you’re in a meeting with clients or sitting down with your boss and the CEO.
She’s arrogant. She swaggers when she talks, and she’s dismissive of any opinion that doesn’t agree with hers. She keeps [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.richmanresources.com/managing-career-tough-gal-on-track-to-derail</link>
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