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	<title>CollegeSurfing Insider &#187; career skills</title>
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	<description>Answers to Your Career Education Questions</description>
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		<title>Technical Schools Welcoming More Students</title>
		<link>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2009/11/03/technical-schools-welcoming-more-students/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 17:41:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>lori</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Gen Y]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s some encouraging news out of my home state of Georgia: Record numbers of students are enrolling in technical colleges, inspired to try new career fields and seeking to quickly gain the knowledge needed to land those jobs.
Data from the Technical College System of Georgia shows a 24 percent increase in 2009 enrollment compared to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Volunteer Your Way to a New You (and Career Success!)</title>
		<link>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2009/10/13/volunteer-your-way-to-a-new-you-and-career-success/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:29:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CollegeSurfing Insider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven’t seen the prolific public service announcements yet, you will. This month, be on the lookout for TV stars like Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Masi Oka, and Rainn Wilson singing the praises of service and volunteering through a new Web site, iParticipate.org. In fact, all sorts of celebs are offering up personal stories on the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Decoding Emerging College Majors</title>
		<link>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2009/09/02/decoding-emerging-college-majors/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2009/09/02/decoding-emerging-college-majors/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Sep 2009 21:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CollegeSurfing Insider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love reading articles about college major trends because that&#8217;s a good way to gauge which career fields are up-and-coming and eager to hire. Lucky for us, writers at The Chronicle of Higher Education did some legwork in yesterday&#8217;s story, &#8220;5 College Majors on the Rise.&#8221;
Not surprisingly, all of the majors they list have something [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So What is Personal Branding Anyway?</title>
		<link>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2009/01/13/so-what-is-personal-branding-anyway/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2009/01/13/so-what-is-personal-branding-anyway/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 13 Jan 2009 15:00:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CollegeSurfing Insider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It has all the earmarks of a buzzword or business jargon, but call it what you want, career experts in all walks of life say personal branding is vital to today&#8217;s career success. So in case you don&#8217;t know what it is, I&#8217;ll tell you.
Personal branding is all about marketing yourself or creating yourself as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McDonald&#8217;s Job Better Than MBA?</title>
		<link>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/11/19/mcdonalds-job-better-than-mba/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/11/19/mcdonalds-job-better-than-mba/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:59:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CollegeSurfing Insider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s something to be said about paying your dues in the working world, especially now as the country faces the highest unemployment rate in 14 years. A low-paying job is better than no job, I say, and according to one career expert, it might even be the best thing you ever do for your career. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learn a Language, Discover a New Career</title>
		<link>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/11/17/learn-a-language-discover-a-new-career/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/11/17/learn-a-language-discover-a-new-career/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:29:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CollegeSurfing Insider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many career experts will tell you that it&#8217;s vital to learn new skills to stay afloat and competitive in a tough job market. If you&#8217;re like me, you equate that with hard skills, like some sort of computer proficiency like Web design, or knowledge that&#8217;s very specific to a trade (like medical billing). Often overlooked [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Tanking Economy Equals a Return to Career Education</title>
		<link>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/11/13/tanking-economy-equals-a-return-to-career-education/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/11/13/tanking-economy-equals-a-return-to-career-education/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:26:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CollegeSurfing Insider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[career skills]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Career Education]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[career training]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[community college]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[layoff]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Credit is fast becoming an outdated concept. The stock market is tanking. Layoffs are out of control. There is one bright spot in this down market, however; many of those affected (or afraid of being affected) are taking a proactive approach to getting back on their feet via continuing, technical, or career education.
According to a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Ike, Wall Street, and the Elections Affect Your Pocket</title>
		<link>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/09/15/how-ike-wall-street-and-the-elections-affect-your-pocket/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/09/15/how-ike-wall-street-and-the-elections-affect-your-pocket/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 21:50:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>CollegeSurfing Insider</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[No matter what&#8217;s making headline news these days, it seems like it has a direct effect on your pockets and someone&#8217;s job, right? Hurricane Ike&#8217;s devastation not only took its toll on Texas and the unfortunate folks living and working in the Texas area, but it will mean higher gas prices throughout the nation. News [...]]]></description>
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		<title>On Shaky Ground at Work? Go on a PR Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/02/11/on-shaky-ground-at-work-go-on-a-pr-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/02/11/on-shaky-ground-at-work-go-on-a-pr-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Feb 2008 17:03:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cs insider</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[career skills]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/02/11/on-shaky-ground-at-work-go-on-a-pr-campaign/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Sick of hearing about the impending recession? Just this morning there was yet another segment on The Today Show (check it out!) about how to recession-proof your job. But my feeling is that even in good economic times, it&#8217;s always smart to do a PR push &#8212; a public relations campaign, if you will &#8212; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Career advancement? It&#8217;s in the bag&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/01/23/career-advancement-its-in-the-bag/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/01/23/career-advancement-its-in-the-bag/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jan 2008 17:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cs insider</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.collegesurfing.com/blog/2008/01/23/career-advancement-its-in-the-bag/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When I saw the press release for the 2008 Shoprite &#8220;Best Bagger” Annual Contest, I chuckled. And then I realized &#8212; who am I to laugh? Being your best at what you do &#8212; whether it&#8217;s bagging groceries, writing blogs (a-hem!), treating patients, fixing air conditioners &#8212; whatever! – is super-important.
Oh sure, every industry has [...]]]></description>
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