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		<title>BlackEnterprise, Dell Launch Online Small Business &#8216;University&#8217; (and it&#8217;s free!)</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:54:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[BLACK ENTERPRISE and Dell are launching the Black Enterprise Small Business University Powered by Dell, an eight-week, online video course offering expert advice to entrepreneurs looking to start and grow profitable small businesses. It&#8217;s not too late to sign up! Small Business University registrants are eligible to win a grand prize package that includes $5,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Find the Perfect Professional Mentor</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 27 Apr 2012 18:14:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today&#8217;s Guest Post is courtesy of Melissa Crossman, a professional writer living in the Indianapolis area with her two dogs. She writes extensively about education and technology and blogs on behalf of American InterContinental University. The Importance of Finding a Mentor In a competitive job market, working with a mentor can mean the difference between [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Benefits of Being Shy</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 23:27:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was quite shy as a little girl, and that certainly didn&#8217;t change as I got older. I could easily spend hours upon hours in my room playing &#8220;pretend&#8221; in the company of my dolls and teddy bears. As an adult, I preferred a movie outing alone rather than dinner with friends. What did change [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Break Through Barriers In Career, Business (And Everywhere Else in Your Life)</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 22:08:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Happy New Year, friends! I hope this year is starting off well for you. It&#8217;s certainly been an eventful transition for me. Like a lot of you, I&#8217;ve been examining my personal and professional life, trying to figure out how I can take things to another level in some areas of my life while maintaining [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Interview with the Progressive Women&#8217;s Business Network</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Nov 2011 15:30:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I had the honor and privilege of being the first interviewee at the Progressive Women&#8217;s Business Network, an online-based community that aims to foster networking opportunities and cultivate resources for ambitious women in business. I really enjoyed answering the questions for this interview; it gave me a chance to reflect on my early career years. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Don&#8217;t Be a Stranger &#8212; Like Me.</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 15:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I know what you&#8217;re thinking: Where have you been, Emily? Well that&#8217;s why I&#8217;m writing you today. I owe you an apology. I haven&#8217;t been as active on the blog as I&#8217;d like to be or as I have been in the past. And there&#8217;s good reason for that. Excuse the melodrama &#8212; I know [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bruised and Gun-Shy: How to Heal After a Layoff</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Jul 2011 20:21:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s difficult enough to be issued the Pink Slip, but how you deal with the sudden unemployment in the weeks and months that follow is what matters most to your future success. You can either crawl into a hole and feel sorry for yourself. Or, you can pull yourself up by the bootstraps &#8212; putting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to Become a Freelance Writer Who Gets Paid</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:18:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[People often ask me how I got started as a writer, and how I found my work from home job. Thankfully, I currently write full-time for a trade publication, and I do get to work from my home office. But that hasn&#8217;t always been the case. Most of the writers that I know &#8212; in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The &#8216;Unbeatable Resume&#8217; &#8211; How to REALLY Get Hired</title>
		<link>http://thecareerpioneer.com/2011/06/29/unbeatable-resume-hired/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Jun 2011 13:58:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Did you know that the average job opening receives more than 200 resumes each time it&#8217;s posted on the Internet? Did you know that 60 percent of those resumes are never read by the person on the receiving end &#8212; a hiring manager or recruiter? And did you know that MOST resumes are read in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Leverage Your Power at Work. Here&#8217;s How.</title>
		<link>http://thecareerpioneer.com/2011/06/24/leverage-power-work-how/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 05:19:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Emily Brown</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This guest post is by Terry Bacon, a Scholar in Residence at the Korn/Ferry Institute. Need to up your professional voltage? Plug in to five major power sources. Power at work is like power in a battery—more voltage, more impact. Yet, today, almost one-half of working professionals say they are dissatisfied with their jobs, according [...]]]></description>
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