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	<title>Unhappy in your job and know there must be something better?</title>
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	<description>Career Coaching and Job Search Support with Denise Taylor, Chartered Psychologist of Amazing People</description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:30:20 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Here’s to working with great career coaching clients</title>
		<link>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/11/12/heres-to-working-with-great-career-coaching-clients/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Nov 2009 07:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Taylor, Award winning career coach and job search strategist</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I was reading Seth Godin&#8217;s blog today which discussed how our customers define our business. What I got from this article was that we should be clear on the type of customer we want to attract and be willing to turn clients away that don&#8217;t fit our business objectives.
I&#8217;m lucky that the majority of clients [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Covering Letter, part 2 - notes from the career coach</title>
		<link>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/11/11/the-covering-letter-part-2-notes-from-the-career-coach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:00:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Taylor, Award winning career coach and job search strategist</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[CVs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Top tips for your covering letter

Most of your important information will be contained in your CV, but a covering letter gives you the opportunity to impress. Do not provide too much information&#8212;one page should suffice. You want to be short listed, so leave some things to discuss at interview.
Be careful to personalise your letter so [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Covering Letter, part 1 - notes from the career coach</title>
		<link>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/11/10/the-covering-letter-part-1-notes-from-the-career-coach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2009 14:06:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Taylor, Award winning career coach and job search strategist</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[The covering letter is as important as your CV and you need to take the time to create a letter that&#8217;s effective. So many people miss out on the chance to reinforce why they are right for the job.&#160;Their covering letter is either very brief &#8216;Please find enclosed my CV. I look forward to hearing [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denise is going to get fit and healthy - week 5</title>
		<link>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/11/08/denise-is-going-to-get-fit-and-healthy-week-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Nov 2009 09:19:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Taylor, Award winning career coach and job search strategist</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[Sunday November 8th
Last week I only lost &#189;lb and I felt so disappointed.&#160;This past week I&#8217;ve been even stricter &#8211; I&#8217;m cutting fruit out for 2 weeks and I&#8217;m taking psyllium husk.&#160;It&#8217;s been a slightly unusual week &#8211; I was at a conference for 3 days so that meant I had to switch my sessions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Love your job - November newsletter now available</title>
		<link>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/11/03/love-your-job-november-newsletter-now-available/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/11/03/love-your-job-november-newsletter-now-available/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Nov 2009 11:39:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Taylor, Award winning career coach and job search strategist</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Newsletter]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[November 2009 
I decided to get this to you early this month. Like always it&#8217;s busy for me, but really interesting, and I hope that your past month has been good for you too! 
People often ask me how I get so much done. It&#8217;s all down to priorities, and since undertaking part time study [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Denise is going to get fit and healthy - week 4</title>
		<link>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/11/02/denise-is-going-to-get-fit-and-healthy-week-4/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 12:50:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Taylor, Award winning career coach and job search strategist</dc:creator>
		
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4 weeks into my &#8216;being fit and healthy campaign&#8217; and a disappointment. 
Not in what the calipers and tape measure said - 3.5cm off bust and hips,and more from round my middle is good, but the scales only showed a 1/2lb loss this week. In the past I would have thought &#8216;fair enough&#8217; and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The importance of setting goals</title>
		<link>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/11/02/the-importance-of-setting-goals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/11/02/the-importance-of-setting-goals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 09:40:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Taylor, Award winning career coach and job search strategist</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[Goal setting]]></category>

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You have read above that I&#8217;m now committed to getting fit and healthy, and losing a significant amount of weight. This is a goal, just like my clients have the goal of finding out what they want to do or in finding a new job.
The most important aspect of achieving a goal is setting a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Networking, helpful hints from the career coach</title>
		<link>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/10/29/networking-helpful-hints-from-the-career-coachin/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/10/29/networking-helpful-hints-from-the-career-coachin/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:27:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Taylor, Award winning career coach and job search strategist</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[JOB SEARCH]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Career Motivators]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Job Hunting in a Recession]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Networking, not all my clients enjoy doing it, but sometimes they need to look for ways to build connections with others. I&#8217;ve a client going off to a conference next week, this is the advice I&#8217;ve sent him:
1.&#160;&#160;&#160; Plan to enjoy it &#8211; write it down and have it somewhere you will look at it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How to complete application forms, advice from the career coach</title>
		<link>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/10/28/how-to-complete-application-forms-advice-from-the-career-coach/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/10/28/how-to-complete-application-forms-advice-from-the-career-coach/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:23:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Taylor, Award winning career coach and job search strategist</dc:creator>
		
		<category><![CDATA[JOB SEARCH]]></category>

		<category><![CDATA[Job Hunting in a Recession]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve been discussing how to complete application forms with a couple of my clients. In each case they were not getting shortlisted but when I reviewed their application form they had not properly targeted their application to the job spec. 
With a general application it is much harder for the short lister to decide whether [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Customer service</title>
		<link>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/10/27/customer-service/</link>
		<comments>http://www.amazingpeople.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/10/27/customer-service/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:24:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Denise Taylor, Award winning career coach and job search strategist</dc:creator>
		
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		<description><![CDATA[I go out of my way to offer a high level of customer service to my clients, and am getting increasingly fed up of other companies who don&#8217;t do similar. Just recently I feel very let down by two companies.
I&#8217;m a subscriber to The Times Newspaper, and received a letter offering me a half price [...]]]></description>
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