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		<title>U.S. Department of State Launches Mobile Career App</title>
		<link>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2013/03/26/u-s-department-of-state-launches-mobile-career-app/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 13:14:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Rothberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Students who want to work for a large, stable employer often choose to work for one of the hundreds of departments agencies within the U.S. federal government. The lead foreign affairs agency responsible for formulating and implementing U.S. foreign policy overseas is the U.S. Department of State. Most of the Department&#8217;s civil service employees work [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sequestration Far Worse Than March Madness for Job Numbers</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:44:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Rothberg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/?p=104741</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[With the first round of the 2013 NCAA Division 1 men’s basketball championship tournament set to tip off next week, the nation’s employers should be readying themselves for the inevitable drop in productivity that coincides.  One new survey found that nearly one-third of workers spend at least three hours per day following the Tournament during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Government Budget Woes Lead to Woes in Job Markets</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 07 Mar 2013 13:15:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Rothberg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/?p=104554</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Planned job cuts increased for the second consecutive month in February as U.S.-based employers announced workforce reductions totaling 55,356, up 37 percent from 40,430 in January, according to the report released Thursday by global outplacement consultancy Challenger, Gray &#38; Christmas, Inc. The February total was 7.0 percent higher than the 51,728 job cuts announced the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Financial Aid: Where is the Money coming from?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:37:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Frierson</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Paying for School]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is no secret that a college education can be expensive, especially in a tight economy.  However, the good news for college students is that financial aid such as scholarships and grants has increased over the last decade.  Take a look at the following graph, which highlights financial aid to full-time college students individually. &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Fill Out an Application for a Federal Government Job If You&#8217;re a Veteran</title>
		<link>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2012/01/19/how-to-fill-out-an-application-for-a-federal-government-job-if-youre-a-veteran/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2012/01/19/how-to-fill-out-an-application-for-a-federal-government-job-if-youre-a-veteran/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:54:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Rothberg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/?p=17665</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Kathryn Troutman shares her secrets for military veterans in applying for a federal government job on The Woman&#8217;s Connection. Kathryn is known as the Federal Resume Guru. She invented a new resume format &#8211; the Federal Resume &#8211; after the U.S. government eliminated the long, burdensome application &#8211; SF-171. Her first book, Federal Resume Guidebook, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Time to Hire of 105 Days Better Than 135, But Fed Govt Should Still Be Ashamed</title>
		<link>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2012/01/12/time-to-hire-of-105-days-better-than-135-but-fed-govt-should-still-be-ashamed/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2012/01/12/time-to-hire-of-105-days-better-than-135-but-fed-govt-should-still-be-ashamed/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:55:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Rothberg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegerecruiter.com/blog/?p=17488</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[By Mark Mehler and Gerry Crispin Bill Leonard&#8217;s recent HR Magazine article, Wanted: Shorter Time to Hire, was an eye-opening update on the May 2010 executive memorandum directing the US Office of Personnel Management (and other Federal agencies) to reform their hiring process. The original memo called the candidate experience into question with meaningless, subjective [...]]]></description>
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		<title>11 Mistakes Federal Job Seekers Should Avoid</title>
		<link>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2011/11/23/11-mistakes-federal-job-seekers-should-avoid/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2011/11/23/11-mistakes-federal-job-seekers-should-avoid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 17:00:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Frierson</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegerecruiter.com/blog/?p=16712</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal job seekers often are frustrated with, overwhelmed by or puzzled over the complex federal hiring process. In their new book, Find Your Federal Job Fit, authors Janet M. Ruck and Karol Taylor explain that the “federal application process, which is unlike any other, can be cumbersome and confusing at times. It is based on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Half day college recruiting conference at GWU</title>
		<link>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2011/10/18/half-day-college-recruiting-conference-at-gwu/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2011/10/18/half-day-college-recruiting-conference-at-gwu/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 23:55:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Rothberg</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://collegerecruiter.com/blog/?p=16261</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This past April, The George Washington University, RECSOLU, and CollegeRecruiter.com worked together to pilot a half day college recruiting conference (FedCollege) for federal government employees involved in the recruitment of college students and recent graduates. We hoped that 50 attendees would join us but we were delighted when 72 showed up and created an oversold [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Federal Agencies Cutting Jobs &#8212; Even Military, Intelligence Aren&#8217;t Safe</title>
		<link>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2011/10/18/federal-agencies-cutting-jobs-even-military-intelligence-arent-safe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2011/10/18/federal-agencies-cutting-jobs-even-military-intelligence-arent-safe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Oct 2011 16:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Rothberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Not even the nation’s ranks of spies will be safe from federal budget cuts, according to a recent article at Wired.com.   Major cuts to the intelligence community’s $80 billion annual budget could result in widespread job cuts across the various spy agencies.   With a mandate to cut federal spending by $2.1 trillion over the next [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lawsuit May Have Killed the Federal Career Internship Program</title>
		<link>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2010/11/14/lawsuit-may-have-killed-the-federal-career-internship-program/</link>
		<comments>http://www.collegerecruiter.com/blog/2010/11/14/lawsuit-may-have-killed-the-federal-career-internship-program/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 14 Nov 2010 22:28:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Steven Rothberg</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An important decision by a key administrative agency that the Federal Career Intern Program (FCIP) violates a statute relating to veterans’ preferences illustrates one of the fatal flaws in this program, the leader of the nation’s largest independent union of federal employees said. President Colleen M. Kelley of the National Treasury Employees Union (NTEU) has [...]]]></description>
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