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		<title>Do You Know How to To Improve MBA programs?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What is the one idea that would improve graduate management education? If you know, the Graduate Management Admissions Council,  the folks who own the Graduate Management Admissions Test, would like to hear from you. They are about to sponsor a contest to find out. And you need not be a current student or faculty member to enter. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amyzipkin.com/?p=416</link>
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		<title>The Price of a Non-Linear Career</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For those contemplating a little time off, perhaps to care for a newborn or toddler, an elderly parent or even to take a sabbatical between jobs, may to well to consider the findings of Sylvia Ann Hewlett, President of the Center for Work-Life Policy and one of the authors of a recent study about the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amyzipkin.com/?p=401</link>
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		<title>Is Talent Overrated?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Ahead of the financial meltdown Geoff Colvin, author and journalist wrote a book called Talent is Overrated that has recently been reissued in paperback with a new afterward (Portfolio Trade). It casts a light on what Mr. Colvin calls world class performers, but others would label achievement through opportunity, persistence and enthusiasm for a task. The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amyzipkin.com/?p=375</link>
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		<title>A Double Standard?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Yesterday Reuters reported a federal jury ruled that  Novartis, a drug manufacturer,  must pay $250 million in punitive damages for discriminating against thousands (5,588) of female sales representatives. After a five week trial  a jury found a pattern of discrimination against women employees over pay, promotion and pregnancy from 2002-2007 . Working Mother Magazine has considered Novartis [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amyzipkin.com/?p=359</link>
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		<title>Career Transitions Hit Home</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is a saying among journalists, that you never want to be part of the story. Still when fellow journalist Eve Tahmincioglu, asked me to guest blog at www.careerdiva.net about One Family&#8217;s Career Journey I readily agreed. My husband and daughter are both in career transitions. My daughter is a rising college junior, a history [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amyzipkin.com/?p=338</link>
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		<title>Paying Lip Service to Job Hunting</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Temporary work is considered a bellwether of the economy. And as the economy perks up, (over 284,000 temp jobs have been created since the low in September 2009, 50,000 in February alone), some of the millions of unemployed may be toying with temping as a way of getting back into the job market. Those still [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amyzipkin.com/?p=330</link>
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		<title>Challenges to Working Longer</title>
		<description><![CDATA[  Since the recession started, there has been increasing attention being paid to working longer and there are several bright spots. Last month, I profiled Dianne Fuller Doherty who is still going strong in a full time career past the age of 70. Afterwards we talked with Marc Freedman  of Civic Ventures, whose passion for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amyzipkin.com/?p=282</link>
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		<title>The Price of Job Security</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Coonskin caps covered hearts in respect for Fess Parker, better known to all as Davy Crockett who died last week at the age of 85. The three part series in which he starred for Disney in late 1954 and early 1955 was dwarfed the merchandising bonanza that followed. It was perhaps, the first, inkling marketers [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amyzipkin.com/?p=278</link>
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		<title>The Organization Man, &#8220;The Sequel&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[William H. Whyte Jr.’s The Organization Man was a seminal work of the 1950’s .The book detailed what Mr. Whyte believed was the sacrifice of a generation in exchange for finding and keeping jobs that promised security.  That generation came of age in the “Great Depression.” Are we on track for The Organization Man, “The [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amyzipkin.com/?p=267</link>
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		<title>Career Changing Blueprint</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Julie Jansen may have been way ahead of the times when I Don’t Know What I Want, But I Know It’s Not This  (Penguin) was first released in 2003.  In those less threatening economic times she created a blueprint for embarking on a successful career. If anything, Ms. Jansen&#8217;s book is more relevant now than when it [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amyzipkin.com/?p=252</link>
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