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No means NO except when it means Yes !

If there’s one aspect of business life in which you really don’t need any advice, it’s your ability to accept rejection. Heaven knows, you’ve had plenty of practice.Apparently, not everyone has achieved your skill level in taking punches to the mid-career. That’s why Yahoo! ® HotJobs® writer, Charles Purdy, penned his recent article, “After the recruiter says no. How to handle rejections.”

“You had high hopes for this job,” Purdy writes. “The job requirements matched your skill set perfectly. You aced your interviews. And you imagined hearing those sweet words from a Alan Sugar wannabe: ‘You’re hired.’ Instead, you got another rejection letter.”

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Leaving Events, now what?

 

 

So when exactly was it that you decided you needed a new career? Was it when you came to work and found your desk in the parking lot? Or was it a more subtle hint: like the moment when you ran into the big boss in the hallway and you said, “Nice to see you!” and he/she said, “Are you still here?”   Or perhaps it is all the news that event budgets are not going in the same direction as swine flu , up- up and away.

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