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		<title>Is Your Company a Great Place to Work?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[While the jobless rate remains high, some employers may feel that they can take on a lax attitude in terms of creating a great corporate culture – they have their pick of the employee litter, so why try? In fact, regardless of the employment situation, this is never an attitude for any employer to take. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Is Bringing Work Home Interfering with Your Family Life?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[If you’re like half of today’s employees, at some point you’ve brought your work home. A streamlined workforce, tight deadlines and the need to combat staff reductions may have you deeming this a necessary – if not logical move. But you may be wrong. Bringing work home can cause more stress, as well as interfere [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.americasjobexchange.com/2520/job-seekers/bringing-work-home/</link>
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		<title>How College Seniors Can Plan Effectively For The Job Search</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Most college seniors have had to endure over 15 years of school, in the hope that there will be a great job waiting for them when it is finally over. However, in today’s difficult economic times, there is no guarantee of successful employment upon graduation. Thus, it is even more important for seniors to gain [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.americasjobexchange.com/2511/job-seekers/how-college-seniors-can-plan-effectively-for-the-job-search/</link>
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		<title>What is a linkage agreement?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Throughout 2011 via several NPRNs, the OFCCP has continued to communicate the idea of companies creating linkage agreements.  But what does this mean?  The official definition states:  “Linkage is the connection between contractors and appropriate recruitment and/or training sources. When an underutilization of minorities or women in a job group is found and there are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.americasjobexchange.com/2497/employers/what-is-a-linkage-agreement/</link>
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		<title>New Employment Numbers Spark Optimism For 2012</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new year has just begun, and as job seekers work on their resolutions to find employment this year, encouraging news has emerged to spark optimism for 2012. According to data released this morning by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, nonfarm payroll employment rose by 200,000 in the month of December 2011. Also, the national [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.americasjobexchange.com/2485/job-seekers/new-employment-numbers-spark-optimism-for-2012/</link>
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		<title>Why do the states need so much information to post jobs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As integral cogs of the recruitment efforts in the U.S., the states themselves are working to ensure they are actively putting as many of their citizens as they can back to work.  With unemployment rates still hovering in the 9% range nationally, and some states still seeing double-digit unemployment, states need to prove they are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.americasjobexchange.com/2474/employers/why-do-the-states-need-so-much-information-to-post-jobs/</link>
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		<title>The New Year Brings the Contractor Community One Step Closer to New Regulations</title>
		<description><![CDATA[2012 will be a year of significant change in the federal contractor community.  Gone will be the notion of “good faith effort” as it applies to affirmative action planning and record keeping.  The OFCCP’s new mantra of “What gets measured gets done” will have far reaching implications moving forward.  The NPRM recommending changes to VEVRAA [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.americasjobexchange.com/2469/employers/the-new-year-brings-the-contractor-community-one-step-closer-to-new-regulations/</link>
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		<title>Holiday Party Etiquette – The Dos and Don’ts</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It’s that time of year &#8211; holiday food, festivities and the requisite holiday office party. While we all want to kick back and relax at holiday events, it’s important to remember that you are still interacting with colleagues. This means that while it’s more than appropriate to “let your hair” down to some extent and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.americasjobexchange.com/2446/uncategorized/holiday-party-etiquette-%e2%80%93-the-dos-and-don%e2%80%99ts/</link>
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		<title>Hosting a Last-minute Holiday Event – It Can be Done!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[You’ve been busy conducting business during the holidays and this has left you no time to coordinate a company-wide holiday event – and everyone is talking about it.  Now, you are reconsidering. While you have very little time to coordinate an event, there are still some activities you can pull together, even at the last [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.americasjobexchange.com/2442/employers/last-minute-holiday-event/</link>
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		<title>USDOL Awards $7.6 million to 5 States Employing Innovative Re-employment Strategies</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The states of Idaho, Minnesota, Mississippi, New York and Oregon were granted more than $7.6 million dollars to create and implement new re-employment strategies.  These initiatives designed to re-employ thousands of displaced workers represent a significant investment in reducing the number of unemployed U.S. workers.  Hilda Solis, Secretary of Labor said that “Getting America back [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blog.americasjobexchange.com/2435/employers/usdol-awards-7-6-million-to-5-states-employing-innovative-re-employment-strategies/</link>
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