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	<title>Charcoal Ink - Proud Member of the Mike Mafia</title>
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	<description>An African Girl on Natural Hair, Magazines, Weight Loss, Mike &#38; Bee, and Careers</description>
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		<title>This Week in Jobs #1: More Rejections but&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Still job seeking and still broke as a joke but I am persevering.
Here is how this week has looked like so far in terms of looking for jobs.

5 Job applications to direct employers: I don&#8217;t even remember how many agency jobs I have actually applied for which is too many to count
5 jobs applied via [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalink.wordpress.com&blog=649266&post=3328&subd=charcoalink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://charcoalink.wordpress.com/2009/12/04/this-week-in-jobs-1-more-rejections-but/</link>
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		<title>Keep &#8216;Em Coming: My long list of job rejections</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I am starting to get beyond frustrated with the job search.
I have been looking for 2 months and just nothing. I have done everything: cold calling, replying to online adverts, following up a week after my application.
NOTHING.
I was rejected for a job today, the employer citing my lack of experience for a role which I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalink.wordpress.com&blog=649266&post=3325&subd=charcoalink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://charcoalink.wordpress.com/2009/12/02/keep-em-coming-my-long-list-of-job-rejections/</link>
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		<title>I&#8217;m back&#8230;kind of</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s been an awful few weeks, Charcoalies.
I got back from Sweden yesterday, back to the cold city of London but my problems of nowhere concrete to live and no money still haunt me.
I am really sorry to say that the blog is going on indefinite hiatus until I land a job and have found somewhere [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalink.wordpress.com&blog=649266&post=3322&subd=charcoalink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://charcoalink.wordpress.com/2009/11/30/im-back-kind-of/</link>
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		<title>Cold calling for jobs: My experience this Wednesday</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Has anyone else out there been doing cold calls for jobs?
My situation is up in there air but today I cold-called 11 places, hotel chains mainly to ask if they had any work going.
When I asked the receptionist, it was 50/50 as to whether or not there were jobs going. I was then referred to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalink.wordpress.com&blog=649266&post=3320&subd=charcoalink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://charcoalink.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/cold-calling-for-jobs-my-experience-this-wednesday/</link>
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		<title>Still Jobless</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Who thought finding a job was this much of an effort?
I am struggling to find work and I don&#8217;t even know where the next payslip is coming from.
I am going to Sweden for a family function from the 22 Nov until 29 Nov. The living situation is still hard to define and describe as I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalink.wordpress.com&blog=649266&post=3318&subd=charcoalink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://charcoalink.wordpress.com/2009/11/18/still-jobless/</link>
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		<title>Falling in Love&#8230;</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My living situation is still up in the air, but one thing I am trying hard to concentrate on is vox, the careers site I created for my MA project.
Don&#8217;t they say that once one part of your life goes wrong (my living situation), one part can cheer up.
I think that this is incredibly true [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalink.wordpress.com&blog=649266&post=3314&subd=charcoalink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://charcoalink.wordpress.com/2009/11/15/falling-in-love/</link>
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		<title>Black Hair: Beyoncé takes 25 Wigs on UK Leg of &#8216;I Am&#8230;&#8217; Tour</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My girl Bee is the shit.
I love this bishette. According to the Daily Mail, Beyoncé packed 25 wigs for the tour [1].
I don&#8217;t know who the source is but I can believe that lol because she has so many set pieces for the tour.
How many wigs do you think the avg black woman owns? I [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalink.wordpress.com&blog=649266&post=3308&subd=charcoalink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://charcoalink.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/black-hair-beyonce-takes-25-wigs-on-uk-leg-of-i-am-tour/</link>
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		<title>Coal News: Bullying made first female Beefeater at the Tower go BALD</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I find it shocking and flabbergasting that the first female Beefeater employed at the Tower of London was actually bullied.
And to make matters worse, she developed alopecia as a stress related disease due to the bullying.
What would you do if this was your mum or sister?
Moira Cameron is now suing for harassment and bullying and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalink.wordpress.com&blog=649266&post=3306&subd=charcoalink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://charcoalink.wordpress.com/2009/11/13/coal-news-bullying-made-first-female-beefeater-at-the-tower-go-bald/</link>
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		<title>Bale of Straws: Why Verbal Bullying is Always Wrong</title>
		<description><![CDATA[This is how it happened.
The final straw came last week when I was sitting in my sitting room on the computer.
Straw #1: The woman asked me if I was wearing deodarant when she came in the house. I was like, WTF??? I just ignored her because all she likes doing is getting a rise out [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalink.wordpress.com&blog=649266&post=3303&subd=charcoalink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://charcoalink.wordpress.com/2009/11/12/bale-of-straws-why-verbal-bullying-is-always-wrong/</link>
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		<title>What Really Happened</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Wow, everyone it was a roller-coaster week.
It took me a long time to realise that I have been a victim of a bully. It was a shocking thing, which I will explain soon.
I am currently with friends as I look to get this situation sorted out.
If any of you read the stamped posts or any [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=charcoalink.wordpress.com&blog=649266&post=3301&subd=charcoalink&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
		<link>http://charcoalink.wordpress.com/2009/11/10/what-really-happened/</link>
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