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		<title>Unemployment &amp; the £1Billion saving</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As reported by many sources this morning – experts believe Alistair Darling could be in line to receive a £1 billion dividend from lower than expected unemployment figures in time for next week’s Budget.
Sounds like good news right?
In truth I’m not so sure. Why? Here are the simple facts:

The number of people claiming unemployment benefit [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zookel.com/blog/zoes-blog/unemployment-the-1billion-saving/</link>
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		<title>Unemployment &amp; the (Female Part Time) White Knight.</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Unemployment unexpectedly fell for the first time in 18 months in November 09, with the Office for National Statistics stating that the broadest measure* of unemployment fell by 7,000 to 2.458 million, leaving the jobless rate at 7.8%. Good news right?
Largely yes, although it must be said the headline figures mask a number of slightly [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zookel.com/blog/zoes-blog/unemployment-the-female-part-time-white-knight/</link>
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		<title>Zookel nominated for the NORAs!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This month we’ve been honoured with the announcement that Zookel has been nominated as a Finalist in the 2009 National Online Recruitment Awards (the NORAs) for the Best Newcomer in Online Recruitment 2009.
Sounds interesting, but what exactly are the NORAs? 
The NORAs have been created to acknowledge and reward excellence in online recruitment practice. Established [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zookel.com/blog/uncategorized/zookel-nominated-for-the-noras/</link>
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		<title>The Swans &amp; The Patriots – Lessons Learned</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Having just finished reading James Lavin’s book Management Secrets of the New England Patriots; From Patsies to Triple Super Bowl Champs – I thought it was worthy of reflecting on a couple of key takeaways:

Similar      to the Sydney Swans (an AFL team in Australia) and their “no    [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zookel.com/blog/pauls-blog/the-swans-the-patriots-%e2%80%93-lessons-learned/</link>
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		<title>Time to go public?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I must admit I wasn’t surprised to read this week that a growing number of highly paid workers are swapping stressful company jobs for careers in the more secure public sector amid fears of redundancy. The trend – an obvious reversal on the boom years – appears to be a direct result of uncertainty surrounding [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zookel.com/blog/zoes-blog/time-to-go-public/</link>
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		<title>What can we learn from Glasto???</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There is something unique about Glastonbury; it has an aura and reputation unlike any of the other festivals on offer over the summer period. Whilst music fans scramble to get tickets, bands are also busy trying to make sure they are on the lineup for Britain’s most famous live music event.
And when a group of [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zookel.com/blog/zoes-blog/what-can-we-learn-from-glasto/</link>
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		<title>Zookel nominated in TechCrunch Europas</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’re proud, impressed, and ever so slightly embarrassed that TechCrunch, the go to Tech blog, has nominated Zookel for the Best Bootstrapped Startup award in the TechCrunch Europas.
What exactly are the Europas? As described by TechCrunch:
These awards will recognise and celebrate the most compelling technology startups, Internet and mobile innovations of the past year (Summer 08 [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zookel.com/blog/pauls-blog/zookel-nominated-in-techcrunch-europas/</link>
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		<title>More Lessons from the downturn!</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I’ve increasingly been reading about (or more like seeking out) innovative strategies both individuals and companies are coming up with to deal with the economic downturn.
Having previously asked the question what can we learn from Graham Edwards. I thought it would be good to look at it from the other side and consider what we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zookel.com/blog/pauls-blog/more-lessons-from-the-downturn/</link>
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		<title>Will we be in trouble with The Palace?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve created a new button ad which we think is great! It’s a little playful, makes you stop and think, and most importantly lives up to the Zookel promise of doing things a little differently.
We’re now just waiting for the calls from the Palace and No.10 respectively. In the meantime we’d love to hear what [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zookel.com/blog/zoes-blog/will-we-be-in-trouble-with-the-palace/</link>
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		<title>Why is it that candidates always leave it too late to evaluate a job offer?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Job offers rarely come as a complete surprise. Even if you’re headhunted the process is likely to take more than a month to complete. So my question is – Why do candidates almost always wait until the offer is in hand to start evaluating it? 
 
The answer &#8211; most candidates consider the offer to [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://zookel.com/blog/pauls-blog/why-is-it-that-candidates-always-leave-it-too-late-to-evaluate-a-job-offer/</link>
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