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		<title>Top 10 Tips to Getting Hired At A Startup</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was asked today to put together the top ten list I put together for getting hired at a startup into one blog post. So here it is. Here are the Top 10 Tips to Getting Hired At a Startup: Stand in the Rain The Importance of Warm Showers Get...]]></description>
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		<title>Durkin&#8217;s Getting Hired at a Startup Series (10 of 10): Slap Interviewers in the Face with Follow-Up</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#10. Be memorable FOREVER Ya ya ya. Following up is super-duper important. Always, always, always thank your interviewers. By email, definitely. By hand written note, maybe. But today, to set yourself apart, you need to slap your interviewers across the face with appreciation and kindness. Get creative. There&#8217;s the open palm...]]></description>
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		<title>Durkin&#8217;s Getting Hired at a Startup Series (9 of 10): Ask ?&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#9. Ask questions. Make sure the company and position are a good fit for YOU, TOO! I&#8217;ve always lived on a two-way street.  Give and take. And in an interview, remember that the two-way street principal applies. You&#8217;re going to be asked a lot of questions by the interviewer. But...]]></description>
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		<title>Durkin&#8217;s Getting Hired at a Startup Series (8 of 10): Ask Who You&#8217;ll be Interviewing With</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#8. Always ask who you&#8217;ll be interviewing with so you can prepare I&#8217;m always very impressed when an upcoming interviewee asks me prior to coming in to the interview who he/she will be interviewed by at my company. It is a totally, smart question to ask that makes sense for...]]></description>
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		<title>Durkin&#8217;s Getting Hired at a Startup Series (7 of 10): Carry a Bag, Notebook, and Pen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#7. Carry a bag, notebook, and pen to meetings.   &#8221;What in the world is in that BAG, what you got in that BAG?&#8221; &#8211; Ludacris Rob Hale is on the board of the nonprofit that I operate alongside Founder Peter Trovato. He is also President of Granite Telecommunications. He&#8217;s a great man,...]]></description>
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		<title>Durkin&#8217;s Getting Hired at a Startup Series (6 of 10): Make Them Like You</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#6. Make them like you. The word &#8220;interview&#8221; is intense. It evokes the image of having one person on the offense (the person who is giving the job) and one person on the defense (the person who wants to get the job). The best interviewees I&#8217;ve seen are able to...]]></description>
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		<title>Durkin&#8217;s Getting Hired at a Startup Series (5 of 10): On &#8220;People Persons&#8221;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#5. Never say you are a &#8220;people person.&#8221; I interview about ten people a week when our company is in hiring mode and two people a week during periods in which we are not hiring (these are people who I have in mind for future hiring periods). I&#8217;ve heard a...]]></description>
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		<title>Durkin&#8217;s Getting Hired at a Startup Series (4 of 10): Wear a Suit</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#4 Prepare your Sunday&#8217;s Finest: Wear a suit / female equivalent. I don&#8217;t know what it is about the jeans / tee-shirt infatuation in startup America. It blows my mind. I simply don&#8217;t understand it. A significant percentage of people I speak to about startups always seem to comment on the...]]></description>
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		<title>Durkin&#8217;s Getting Hired at a Startup Series (3 of 10): Get to 98%</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#3. Research the startup you are interviewing DAYS IN ADVANCE. Study up! Here&#8217;s the real reason why. Remember in college when your professor handed back that graded test of yours and you looked at it, and it said &#8220;98%,&#8221; and you&#8217;re friend looked over your shoulder, and said &#8220;Man! 98%!...]]></description>
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		<title>Durkin&#8217;s Getting Hired at a Startup Series (2 of 10): The Importance of Warm Showers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[#2. Find a warm connection you know within the company you&#8217;d like to work at. I love warm showers. I love them way more than cold showers. Cold showers are miserable. They make me uncomfortable. The next time you&#8217;re getting ready for an interview. Remember. Warm is always better than cold....]]></description>
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