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		<title>JobHunting :: If you&#8217;re not getting further than the interview.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Shernika is one of our facebook fans. She has been sending out applications, getting interviews but no job offers. Here are some blogs/websites I recommended. If you are in the same predicament have a look.
HBR David Silverman
http://blogs.hbr.org/silverman/2009/06/the-best-cover-letter.html
Writes great stuff. I get many a ideas from him.
Business Insider
http://www.businessinsider.com/the-8-interview-questions-you-need-to-ask-when-hiring-2010-8
This is one of my favorites. Easy to follow [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/jobhunting-if-youre-not-getting-further-than-the-interview/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[You have to be willing to do things that the masses wouldn’t do, or I don’t think you will be able to separate yourself from the masses.- Steve Bisciotti
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		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/what-the-masses-wont-do/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many people with jobs have a fantasy about all the amazing things they would do if they didn’t need to work. In reality, if they had the drive and commitment to do actually do those things, they wouldn’t let a job get in the way.
 — Paul Buchheit on What to do with your millions
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		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/what-to-do-with-your-millions/</link>
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		<title>3 Things that will annoy HR/Hiring Managers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve been involved with the recruitment industry one way or the other since 2005. For some time, before starting pileojobs.com, I was selling recruitment tools to HR Managers. That being said, I have no formal human resource qualifications whatsoever, but from talking with so many HR Managers and Executives(more than most people do in their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/3-things-about-your-application-that-annoys-hr-manager/</link>
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		<title>The Caribbean&#8217;s need for an Education Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Everyday you’ll find children all across the Caribbean and around the world heading to school and colleges for a ‘better’ education.  This better education is supposedly going to guarantee a comfortable future, but what actually happens is that a lot of these students leave college without the slightest idea of what to do with their [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/the-caribbeans-need-for-an-education-revolution/</link>
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		<title>Picture: Good Luck!</title>
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Good Luck!  
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		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/picture-good-luck/</link>
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		<title>Poll Results: Would you accept higher salary to have co-workers laid off?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Your company releases a memo stating that it has to cut spending on salaries. The memo ask you to choose. Which would you pick?]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/poll-results-would-you-accept-higher-salary-to-have-co-workers-laid-off/</link>
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		<title>Why Morning People Get Ahead</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why Morning People Get Ahead? The morning people are different from you and me – or so says new research. Early birds are more proactive than evening people – and so they do well in business, says Christoph Randler, a biology professor at the University of Education in Heidelberg, Germany. The study Randler defended in [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/why-morning-people-get-ahead/</link>
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		<title>Humor: Querty Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A Little bit of Qwerty Music




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		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/humor-querty-music/</link>
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		<title>Odd Job: The Fish Doctor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[

We never thought about a fish being seen by a doctor. Afterall you don&#8217;t normally think of a fish being sick, do you?
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		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/odd-job-the-fish-doctor/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[We all know the saying it’s better to ask for forgiveness than permission. And everyone knows that, but I think there is a corollary: If everyone is trying to prevent error, it screws things up. It’s better to fix problems than to prevent them. And the natural tendency for managers is to try and prevent [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/quote-pixar-on-leadership/</link>
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		<title>Humor: This may be the worst job ever.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This guy probably has the worst job ever. There&#8217;s a bit of indecent language towards the end of the video.




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		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/humor-this-may-be-the-worst-job-ever-2/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[If I have two candidates in front of me, one that included a cover letter about how he hand-rolled his own blog, comments, and feed aggregator for fun to learn a new framework, and another that just sends a resume with a one-liner in the body of the email, I’m going to be much more [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/reddits-entitlement-complex/</link>
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		<title>Jamaica&#8217;s Most Popular Jobs 2009 &#8211; 2010 trends</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Its now just over a year since I started pileojobs.com and over that time the site as advertised some 3,933 Jamaica based jobs. Here are some interesting statistics on these jobs.
Total Jobs Advertised
For the period April 1, 2009 to March 31, 2010 the number of jobs advertised on a monthly basis trended upwards for the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/jamaicas-most-populars-jobs-2009-2010-trends/</link>
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		<title>Winning a Job With Your USP</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tie your unique selling proposition to a prospective employer&#8217;s profitability and boost your odds of finding a position that suits you both. 
Solid credentials and honed job-search skills might get you through a prospective employer&#8217;s door, but what can make you stand out among candidates? Glowing reference letters? Confidence in the interview? A memorable &#8220;thank [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/winning-a-job-with-your-usp/</link>
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		<title>Product Update: Improved relevancy in job results</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I spent the night installing the new version of our search engine. Our main focus for this round was improving two things:

the relevancy of the jobs in the results to the users&#8217; search phrase.
the location box has been quite useful but there is always room for improvement, so we&#8217;ve put in quite a bit of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/product-update-improved-relevancy-in-job-results/</link>
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		<title>On the pleasure of talking to strangers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A bird crapped on me twice today, or it could have been two birds, I dont know, but just has I stepped onto the beach the first one landed, and a few seconds later a second. 
There was baby about 3 years old having the time of his life with his mommy in the sand. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/on-the-pleasure-of-talking-to-strangers/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am not sure where I’m going but I still prepare myself diligently for the journey every day &#8211; Peter Baskerville
This is the life of any entrepreneur. Taking chances and making themselves comfortable with the ambiguity of what the future holds.
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		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/331/</link>
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		<title>Business lessons I learnt from watching a topless dancer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I found this video of a guy dancing on Seth Godin&#8217;s blog. What this guy did is the same as any innovator bringing a new idea to the market. Here&#8217;s what I got from the video
Do something different and you will definitely get noticed
The guy starts out dancing by himself, and since he is the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/business-lessons-i-learnt-from-watching-a-topless-dancer/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[For what the leaders are, that, as a rule, will the men below them be. – Xenophon
The enthusiasm with which employees join a company inevitably wanes. If you want to speed this up do not practice what you preach. Employees like to see their bosses sharing in the dangers and experiences. 
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		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/307/</link>
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		<title>Lesson&#8217;s Learnt &#8211; June 23, 2009</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The hardest part of starting a business is starting.
I spent more than eight months planning my first venture. It failed. Thats not a good thing but i haven&#8217;t regretted any part of it. I&#8217;ve learned a lot and i&#8217;ve made mistakes. The biggest mistake however was not starting earlier. I&#8217;d have learnt all that earlier.
Every [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/lessons-learnt-june-23-2009/</link>
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		<description><![CDATA[    A man was selling oranges in the middle of a road. He was illiterate, so he never read newspapers. He put some signs along the road and spent the whole day praising the flavor of his wares.
    Everyone bought from him and the man thrived. With the money [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/285/</link>
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		<title>Simple Yet Not So Simple &#8211; Small things that make a difference</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One thing about the traffic we&#8217;ve been receiving is that a majority of our visitors are organic, meaning they came to us via a medium we did not pay for &#8211; facebook, twitter, forums and websites(techjamaica.com, siliconcaribe.com etc.) and from other websites that use our search engine on their sites.
This makes us happy but we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/simple-yet-not-so-simple/</link>
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		<title>Learning As We Go</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We thought we had the concept of a single search box down until two weeks ago when our google analytics registered a significant spike in traffic coming from techjamaica.com. Seeing we had not yet started to advertise pileojobs.com this came as a shock to us.
Anyways, I went and visited techjamaica, searched the site and found [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/learning-as-we-go/</link>
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		<title>Media Coverage &amp; Social Networks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[So on the second day of the site being live we set up a twitter account @pileojobs started following a few Caribbean techies.
On the third day we get a request for an interview and to do a presentation at Kingston Beta, held in, well, Kingston Jamaica. You can imagine our excitement.
So I went and did [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/media-coverage-social-networks/</link>
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		<title>Where the pile came from?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I have an habit of walking around with a little notebook in my back pocket. Wherever i go, whether it&#8217;s  work, a party, shopping or eating I always have this book for those &#8216;aha!&#8217; moments, then i would write the &#8216;aha&#8217; idea down.
Roughly two weeks ago while going through my little notebook for an [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.pileojobs.com/thepileup/where-the-pile-came-from/</link>
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