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        <title>Joyce Lain Kennedy</title>
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			<title><![CDATA[Victory over vampires: handling bad-news people at work]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-22 02:30:05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: My new job is a grinder. Long hours and stressful new responsibilities were to be expected, but not the verbal blasts that I'm getting hit with almost daily from three co-workers who I have neither harmed nor disrespected. Quite the opposite,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Is working remotely on the way out?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-19 02:30:05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: I'm a single mom working from home three days a week. I can afford a sitter two days a week. I understand that Yahoo and Best Buy ended their policies of allowing employees to work out of the office. Maybe I'm overreacting, but are we seeing...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[In job interview, put best face on a weakness]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-15 02:30:06</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: A recent segment of the TV show "Brain Games" compared results when twin women candidates were interviewed for the same job. Both were asked to describe themselves. Candidate A led with three positive factors, following up with three...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Read federal job announcements thoroughly]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/sns-201305081800--tms--careersntp--h-a20130512-20130512,0,4580111.column?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-05-12 02:30:03</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: Recently you said you think this is a good time to apply for federal jobs despite the sequestration. But I've submitted my application several times with zero success. What am I doing wrong? -- C.H.

I can't pinpoint what's keeping you out...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Women: Create your own stiletto network]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-05-08 02:30:06</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: When I, a woman, tried to run for local public office, I found out that it's still an old boy's club. Have you ever heard of an all-woman political group? -- B.D.

You could start one. A new book will be out this month that gives you a plan:...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Any federal job openings after sequestration?]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-28 02:30:04</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: Are federal jobs still a good place to look for employment? Or has the sequester dried up the federal job market? -- J.M.

I can see how headlines describing such sequestration cutbacks as the shrinking of work weeks for flight controllers,...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Networking tips after relocation]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/sns-201304171800--tms--careersntp--h-a20130424-20130424,0,2941714.column?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-04-24 02:30:06</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: I'm a stay-at-home mom now ready to resume my career. We moved to a new city a year ago for my husband's new job. I keep reading how networking is such an effective job-hunting tool but what are the best ways to do it? -- B.V.H.

If you're...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[New survey of how people get hired]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-21 02:30:05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: A few weeks ago, you wrote about a survey which concludes that a job seeker who arrives with a referral is vastly more likely to be hired than is a stranger. Are there other recent studies showing the most productive ways for job seekers to...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Make purposeful networking contacts]]></title>
			
			

			
			<link>http://www.latimes.com/topic/sns-201304101430--tms--careersntp--h-a20130417-20130417,0,5118201.column?track=rss-topicgallery</link>
				
			
			<pubDate>2013-04-17 02:30:04</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: I'm well aware of the never-ending advice to network to improve one's career chances. But I've never found aimless networking to be of much help, particularly at those sundowner socials sponsored by chambers of commerce where you supposedly...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[Caught! When boss learns you want out]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-14 02:30:05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: You've mentioned the risk that employees take if the employer discovers they are trying to find another job? Why is that exactly? -- N.D.

The possibility (probability in an online search) that an employer will find out an employee is...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[How to handle an irritating boss]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-10 02:30:07</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: My boss, a confirmed buttinski, makes me crazy with his meddling personality. Yes, I'm good at my work, and no, my boss doesn't know what he's doing most of the time. I don't just quit and look for employment somewhere else because my commute'...]]></description>
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			<title><![CDATA[See the bigger picture in video interviewing]]></title>
			
			

			
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			<pubDate>2013-04-07 02:30:05</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[DEAR JOYCE: I just experienced my first video interview. I knew about it in advance, had my hair done, wore business clothes and practiced answering questions. Even so, I was very nervous, and nothing went right. I probably won't hear from that employer...]]></description>
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