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<description><![CDATA[For Ellen Zimiles, the chief executive of Daylight Forensic and Advisory, a background in speech pathology turned out to be useful when her son was born with autism.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Learning that you are an introvert, and the strengths and challenges that come with it, can be a first step in achieving career success.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[If you’re anxious to guide your children to the ideal career choice, remember how often adults change professions before finding the right fit.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Tim Shriver, the C.E.O. of Special Olympics, believes that the pathway to change is through relationships based on equality.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Mark Jarvis, the chief executive of Steritech, takes on bedbugs and roaches to keep food-processing facilities and hotels safe.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[There is one area in business where much emphasis is still placed on who you know rather than what you’ve done. And that’s recruiting.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Carol Bartz, the chief executive of Yahoo, says that immediate feedback is important for employees.]]></description>
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<title>Finding a Guide for Online Networking</title>
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<description><![CDATA[With the help of the Web-savvy, those nearing retirement are learning to put online social media to work in forging second careers.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[About 600 alternative certification programs contribute roughly 20 percent of the country’s new teachers each year.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Amid job uncertainty, more people are finding online employment sites and social media a way to take control of their own careers.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[How do you persuade a company to hire you if you are underqualified or overqualified, and the job market is against you?]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[“In this business, if you don’t innovate, someone else will,” says John C. Martin, the C.E.O. of Gilead Sciences.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[An advertising account manager says that clear objectives and communication are essential when sharing a job with someone else.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Scott Lang used lessons learned on the family farm to guide him through lean years as chief executive of Silver Spring Networks, a company that is taking the nation’s electrical grid digital.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Susan Lyne, C.E.O. of the Gilt Groupe, looks for teamwork skills in potential hires and allots time for any employee to meet with her.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[When you’re passed over for a better job, gather feedback on how to improve your chances next time.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Josh Silverman learned early on about the importance of uniting a team around a single vision. His career has taken him from Evite to Skype.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[After Beth Kaplan learned discipline and competitiveness in dance class as a child, she used those skills to become chief executive of GNC.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[Across the New York region, people looking for work gather in job clubs — where they can commiserate with one another, refresh job-seeking skills and swap war stories.]]></description>
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<title>Economic View: How an Insurance Mandate Could Leave Many Worse Off</title>
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<description><![CDATA[How government-mandated health insurance could be detrimental to many people it was intended to help.]]></description>
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<title>Letters: Two Kinds of Networks for the Job Search</title>
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<description><![CDATA[To the Editor:.]]></description>
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<title>Preoccupations | Jim Remsik: For Writing Software, a Buddy System</title>
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<description><![CDATA[A proponent of a collaborative method of working believes it saves a company time and money by revealing bugs quickly.]]></description>
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<title>The Boss: Not Just &#x2018;That Blind Person&#x2019;</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Karen Petrou, who has a variety of retinitis pigmentosa, served as a vice president at Bank of America before starting her own company in 1985.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[In a state that has lost 800,000 manufacturing jobs this decade, old factories are being retooled to make renewable-energy products.]]></description>
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<title>Looking for a (Long) Leg Up</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Labels go bust, the runways are grim, but young people keep storming the gates  of fashion, hoping for a career.]]></description>
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<title>Preoccupations: When Publishing Had Scents and Sounds</title>
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<description><![CDATA[In scarcely 30 years, technology has transformed the office archaeology of the book business.]]></description>
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<title>In Unemployment Report, Signs of a Jobless Recovery</title>
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<description><![CDATA[The loss of 216,000 jobs in August, which pushed the jobless rate in the U.S. to 9.7 percent, suggested that companies are not aggressively hiring despite signs of recovery.]]></description>
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<title>A Reluctance to Retire Means Fewer Openings</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Potential retirees in the U.S. are clinging to jobs because of financial losses, while Europeans are retiring in lockstep.]]></description>
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<title>Businesses Struggle With Malaysia&#x27;s Restrictions on Foreign Workers</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Restaurants and manufacturers said their productivity was suffering since the government cracked down on the hiring of new foreign workers.]]></description>
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<title>Career Couch: When a Colleague Doesn&#x2019;t Pull His Weight</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Some co-workers aren’t aware that they are wasting their time — and yours.]]></description>
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<title>The Boss: A Long Road to Television</title>
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<description><![CDATA[An executive took a winding route from engineer to investment banker to C.E.O. of a television network using her entrepreneurial roots.]]></description>
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<title>Generation B: At 58, a Life Story in Need of a Rewrite</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Those over 45 have the highest unemployment rate in at least 60 years.]]></description>
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<title>Downturn Dims Prospects Even at Top Law Schools</title>
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<description><![CDATA[Law students deep in debt from elite schools would often count on being hired by big-name firms, but those opportunities are drying up, and competition is growing.]]></description>
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<description><![CDATA[An adjunct professor fights lack of job security and pay for the joy of teaching.]]></description>
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<title>The Search: Subtle Cues Can Tell an Interviewer &#x2018;Pick Me&#x2019;</title>
<link>http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/13/jobs/13search.html?partner=rss&#x26;emc=rss</link>
<description><![CDATA[Courtesy, knowledge of the company and intuition can play big roles in whether a job seeker is successful.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/11/03/justice-probe-into-monsanto-prices-a-more-aggressive-antitrust-move">
<title>Monopoly Play</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/11/03/justice-probe-into-monsanto-prices-a-more-aggressive-antitrust-move</link>
<description><![CDATA[With Monsanto and DuPont deadlocked in a dispute over cotton, seeds and herbicides, the Justice Department is investigating the industry's multibillion-dollar competitive-pricing practices.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/23/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-and-museum-at-25">
<title>Does Rock Still Rock?</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/23/rock-and-roll-hall-of-fame-and-museum-at-25</link>
<description><![CDATA[As the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum turns 25 and throws itself a massive bash ($25,000 VIP tickets, anyone?), does rock still have it? Or is it time for rocking chair?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/19/billionaire-bust-rocks-hedge-funds-community">
<title>Billionaire Bust Rocks Hedge Funds, Community</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/19/billionaire-bust-rocks-hedge-funds-community</link>
<description><![CDATA[The arrest of Raj Rajaratnam has had worldwide impact, even sending the stock market in his native Sri Lanka tumbling. The impact is felt as new details arise about the investigation that led to the arrest of the hedge fund whiz.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/14/competition-in-grocery-industry-prompts-Kroger-to-make-adjustments">
<title>Penny-Pincher</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/14/competition-in-grocery-industry-prompts-Kroger-to-make-adjustments</link>
<description><![CDATA[With shoppers clipping coupons and thinking twice whether to spend their hard-earned money on steak or staples, grocery heavyweight Kroger is focusing on competitive prices and a novel idea: that the customer comes first.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/13/business-development-seen-as-sales-on-steroids">
<title>The Partner Police</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/13/business-development-seen-as-sales-on-steroids</link>
<description><![CDATA[Whether you consider it to be "sales on steroids" or think of its execs as "cruise directors," business development has become a crucial position in corporate America.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/09/Pratts-campaign-to-buy-Gander-Mountain">
<title>Hunting in Private</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/09/Pratts-campaign-to-buy-Gander-Mountain</link>
<description><![CDATA[Gander Mountain, the top retailer of outdoor-recreation goods, is on its way to becoming a private company. And that's just the way the company's media-shy chairman likes it.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/05/bankers-see-signs-IPO-market-is-set-to-revive">
<title>IPO Freely</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/05/bankers-see-signs-IPO-market-is-set-to-revive</link>
<description><![CDATA[With several recent successful initial public offerings, signs point to a resurgence of the IPO market.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/02/can-capitalism-remake-itself">
<title>Capitalism&#x2019;s Future Evolution </title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/02/can-capitalism-remake-itself</link>
<description><![CDATA[Can capitalism remake itself to reflect the needs of the society at large and still turn a profit?]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/01/10-vcs-look-to-the-future">
<title>10 VCs Look to the Future</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/10/01/10-vcs-look-to-the-future</link>
<description><![CDATA[Venture capitalists expect pressure in the U.S. and growth abroad as the industry shakes off the devastation of the financial crisis.]]></description>
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<item rdf:about="http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/09/30/venture-capital-industry-is-in-recession">
<title>Venturing On</title>
<link>http://www.portfolio.com/companies-executives/2009/09/30/venture-capital-industry-is-in-recession</link>
<description><![CDATA[The venture capital business, disrupted by the recession, is adapting to a new global era.]]></description>
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