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     <title><![CDATA[Proactive Vs. Reactive HR]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[For those of us that work in the area of HR, the two basic commodities that we deal in are jobs and people&mdash;our basic mission is fitting the right person to the right job and ensuring that we maximize their experience in the organization. The more successful we are at doing this, the more engag...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:47:29 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blog.kenexa.com/Rudy-Karsan/November-2009/Compensation-Practices--Full-Circle]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Compensation Practices: Full Circle]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[I have been reflecting about compensation practices in the West and how they have evolved. A very long time ago, people paid for output: bartering in kind or services. For example, a farmer used his crop as &ldquo;currency&rdquo; and might exchange a bushel of grain for some service he wished perfor...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 10:01:44 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blog.kenexa.com/Rudy-Karsan/November-2009/Parent-Vs--Child-in-the-Job-Market---1-]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Parent Vs. Child in the Job Market?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[If we look back into the past, historically, we as human beings farmed or hunted or traded with our parents&mdash;we toiled alongside them in the fields, went with them and carried home the game together, or helped them load up the boat with goods to go to the trading post downriver. In the manufact...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 06 Nov 2009 07:42:46 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blog.kenexa.com/Rudy-Karsan/November-2009/Jobs-and-the-End-of-the-Recession]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Jobs and the End of the Recession ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Most of us are aware of the news over the last few days about the spurt in growth of the U.S. economy. This has created a sense of optimism that we are finally emerging from the recession, which is now being referred to as The Great Recession. There is presently a lot of confusion for everyone in th...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:49:53 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blog.kenexa.com/Rudy-Karsan/October-2009/Leadership-and-Optimism]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Leadership and Optimism]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the things that I have noticed is that most leaders tend to be optimists. As I stop to reflect about this, it occurs to me that there&rsquo;s a fairly simple reason for this&mdash;not many people would like to follow a negative person. So, if you aspire toward leadership, you are better off b...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 01 Oct 2009 06:55:02 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blog.kenexa.com/Rudy-Karsan/August-2009/Opportunities-in-Temporary-Work]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Opportunities in Temporary Work]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Clearly, the macroeconomic conditions have begun to improve. Most economists are talking about global growth definitely becoming a part of the 4th quarter of this year, if not the 3rd quarter. Next year could reach 2% global growth, and most economists are predicting that it could hit the long-term ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:08:47 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Education and the Recession]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The unemployment rate continues to climb. Now approaching 10% in the US, it is also increasing across Asia-Pacific and Europe. Numerous training programs have been set up in the US to help job-seeking people re-equip themselves for a new line of work after being laid off. Based on what I&rsquo;ve se...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2009 07:56:03 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Social Media Vs. Personal Interaction]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Watching my daughters and other people in their twenties interact, I see that the majority of these interactions take place via electronic media such as twittering, Facebook, texting and chat rooms. These individuals need to understand that there is nothing that can replace meeting people and engagi...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 09:27:43 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Using Social Interactive Media Effectively]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As we continue to watch our careers and tap into this absolute mushrooming of social interactive media such as Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn, one of the thoughts I had is that the vast majority of people are simply like sheep in this environment&mdash;they are followers or passive readers, who are...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 07 Aug 2009 13:51:39 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blog.kenexa.com/Rudy-Karsan/August-2009/Are-Our-Brains-Getting-Rewired-]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[Are Our Brains Getting Rewired?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the things I realized after discussions with various people at Brainstorm is that we, as a society, are consuming more television and more movies, we are playing more games, we are reading a lot more, and entertaining ourselves more on the computer via social networking sites and the like. Wh...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 03 Aug 2009 07:43:57 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Working to Conserve Water]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the more exciting conferences that I have had the opportunity to attend every year or two is Brainstorm, an annual conference arranged by Fortune magazine. As always, I came away from this year&rsquo;s conference, Fortune Brainstorm Tech,&nbsp;with a lot of great insights. The focus this year...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 29 Jul 2009 08:52:01 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Kenexa Features in a New Book]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[I am thrilled and proud that Kenexa has been featured in&nbsp;the new book on cloud computing titled &ldquo;Cloud: Seven Clear Business Models&rdquo; by Timothy Chou.&nbsp;It is available now on Amazon and Kenexa is profiled as one of the Elite Eleven, defined by the author as &quot;the largest busi...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 24 Jul 2009 11:19:12 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[I Do Believe That China Will Not Go Into Recession]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the areas I was somewhat concerned about as recently as 6-9 months ago was that if China were to go into recession of some sort, there would really be very little hope for the world to get out of its existing recession before the end of 2009. Having been to China in the recent past, I can say...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 22 Jul 2009 11:46:01 GMT</pubDate>
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     <guid isPermaLink="true"><![CDATA[http://blog.kenexa.com/Rudy-Karsan/July-2009/In-Appreciation-of-the-Travel-Industry]]></guid>
     <title><![CDATA[In Appreciation of the Travel Industry]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[One of the joys of my job (and in a sense, one of the stresses as well) is that I spend a lot of time traveling around the world. I recently spent almost three weeks on the road traveling in 6-8 countries in 2-3 continents. And I invariably think about how this would have been a far greater stress h...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:27:58 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Are You Working Harder?]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;re working harder today than you were, say, two years ago, why is that happening? Is it because of the state of the economy, or heightened expectations of efficiency on the part of your employer, or greater engagement on your part in the work you are doing which makes you want to be at ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 09 Jul 2009 08:37:08 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Productivity During the Recession]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[What is interesting about recent data released from the unemployment perspective is that, unlike in most recessions, productivity has not gone down. This is generally likely to mean one of two things: a) that people are working longer hours and their longer hours aren&rsquo;t being documented or b) ...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:27:06 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Reflections About Compensation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There have been a lot of press clips recently about inflated compensation, especially that of bankers. A lot of these are led by the Obama administration as well as the business world in general. 

The most intriguing thing I find is that there&rsquo;s no one group that says a particular group mak...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jun 2009 11:13:37 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[The Silver Linings in the Downturn]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[Nothing in life is all good or all bad&mdash;everything has some positive and some negative aspects along the way. If you reflect about different facets of your life, you will realize that when life deals you a particular hand, it&rsquo;s entirely up to you what you&rsquo;re going to make of it or w...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2009 02:56:47 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[More on Job Creation]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[I have been traveling quite a bit of late. My last trip was quite interesting in that I spent more of my time with government officials than with clients as I usually do. And I found that from Dubai to China, India to Saudi Arabia, creation of new jobs was uppermost in the minds of all the politicia...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:23:27 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[To Tweet or Not to Tweet]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A couple of weeks ago I decided to get onto Yammer, which I thought was a rather interesting way of social networking. It&rsquo;s a subset of Twitter, which I&rsquo;m still not a part of, and which I&rsquo;ve been debating whether or not I should join. I really enjoy the real-time dialog. A friend o...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jun 2009 14:00:24 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[ The Job Angels]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[There is currently a tremendous level of emphasis and thought around the issue of job creation. Here is a really interesting, nonprofit, grassroots-evolved job-help situation that I thought people would be interested in reading about and (possibly) joining. Job Angels is a movement that is growing q...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 27 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Lack of Creation of New Jobs]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[I commented in a recent blog post that about four and a half million jobs were created in the US during the first quarter of 2009. This New York Times&nbsp;blog post talks about how the big issue with the current recession might not be the number of job losses but the lack of creation of new jobs. H...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Fri, 22 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Cashing in on Opportunity]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[A few days ago I came across an amazing article. 

While most of us (myself included) sit back and bemoan the current economic crisis, there are groups around the world that are seeing opportunities and preparing for them in a long-term manner.

The example given here is the little-known industr...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 13 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[New Job Opportunities ]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[As we continue with the drumbeat of bad numbers we must remember that the economy is creating new jobs even as we speak. In the first quarter of 2009, two and a half million job losses took place. What people don&rsquo;t realize is that nearly double that number of new jobs was also created. Thus, t...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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     <title><![CDATA[Keep Your Self-Esteem Intact]]></title>
     <description><![CDATA[The backwash of the credit crisis of late last year continues in the form of high unemployment figures, which will continue to worsen. There are a couple of points to bear in mind in the current circumstances. If you lost your house in a hurricane, it would be a major personal economic calamity, acc...]]></description>
     <pubDate>Wed, 06 May 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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