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		<title>Cries for Help from the Boomer Organisations</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2013 06:48:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regular readers will know that there are certain things that raise the hackles here at T Recs, amongst them are: Gratuitous generational stereotyping Gratuitous use of the phrase ‘War for Talent’ Churnalism…particularly the unquestioning reporting of self-serving research passing itself off as insight. Hence it will come as no surprise that HR Magazine’s ‘Global war [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10025978&#038;post=1465&#038;subd=mervyndinnen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generationalisationism</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 May 2013 07:13:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a regular attendee and blogger at CIPD events I like the way they have got involved in, and tried to shape, conversations around youth unemployment and opportunities for tomorrow’s workforce. In their centenary year it seems fitting that an organisation that came in to being with an aim to get children out of the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10025978&#038;post=1453&#038;subd=mervyndinnen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Passion for Learning</title>
		<link>http://mervyndinnen.wordpress.com/2013/04/29/a-passion-for-learning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2013 06:33:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Some readers may remember a TV ad campaign a few years ago aimed at getting more people interested in teaching as a career. Most scenes showed a child engaged with learning in school and the strap line was&#8230; You never forget a good teacher It came to mind during a fairly dull session at last [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10025978&#038;post=1433&#038;subd=mervyndinnen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Social Media, Judging Others and The 5 Year Rule</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Apr 2013 05:10:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Paris Brown]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The guy who first managed me in recruitment, the owner of the small agency I had joined, had a way of dealing with some of the slightly more overconfident outpourings of the younger, cockier me. He said… “Write down what you just said. Put it away. Look at it again in 5 years’ time. You’ll [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10025978&#038;post=1424&#038;subd=mervyndinnen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Pity the Child Who Has Ambition…</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Apr 2013 06:47:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[“Pity the child who has ambition, knows what he wants to do Knows that he&#8217;ll never fit the system others expect him to” (Chess) When I blogged about youth unemployment just over a year ago I pointed out that many of the traditional lower skilled entry level jobs within the economy were now being done [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10025978&#038;post=1416&#038;subd=mervyndinnen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Generational Reductionism</title>
		<link>http://mervyndinnen.wordpress.com/2013/03/26/generational-reductionism/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 06:29:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Today is Mark’s birthday, he turned 52. He shares his birthday with his Uncle Peter who turns 70, a cause for much family celebration. Peter has been retired for 5 years. He was a partner in an accountancy firm and is enjoying a relaxing retirement thanks to [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10025978&#038;post=1404&#038;subd=mervyndinnen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mozart and the Art of Content Marketing</title>
		<link>http://mervyndinnen.wordpress.com/2013/03/18/mozart-and-the-art-of-content-marketing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2013 08:01:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love the play and movie Amadeus. The portrayal of both the vulnerability yet precociousness of genius has always intrigued me, and also how it impacts on those less gifted but still creative. My favourite scene is the one above. Everyone’s viewpoint is played out on a daily basis in our lives. Who is His [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10025978&#038;post=1399&#038;subd=mervyndinnen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Cult of #TruLondon</title>
		<link>http://mervyndinnen.wordpress.com/2013/03/12/the-cult-of-trulondon/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last Thursday saw the curtain come down on TruLondon7 (actually it was 8 for me if you include TruNora) and from last week’s attendees it was probably only me, Bill and one or two other stalwarts that have been at every one. Jobsite weren’t sponsoring this time so I was able to experience the event [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10025978&#038;post=1386&#038;subd=mervyndinnen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Fluff and Nonsense</title>
		<link>http://mervyndinnen.wordpress.com/2013/02/28/fluff-and-nonsense/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2013 08:01:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; &#160; Many of you probably saw a post from Forbes last week about the 14 things successful people do at the weekend. A fluff piece if ever I saw one &#8211; you only have to look at the title to see that. But an OK fluff piece. A few contributors [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10025978&#038;post=1364&#038;subd=mervyndinnen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Seeing Off The Ninjas, Gurus and Mavens [Video]</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 22 Feb 2013 06:50:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mervyn Dinnen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[At Salesforce’s recent Social Success evening for Social Predictions 2013 I teamed up with my good friend Karen Fewell (@DigitalBlonde) for a 5 minute session entitled ‘Goodbye Social Media Wizards, Ninjas &#38; Gurus’. With 181,000 Gurus, Ninjas, Masters, Mavens, Evangelists, Experts etc on Twitter alone it’s clearly becoming an overcrowded club…with even Social Media Whores [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mervyndinnen.wordpress.com&#038;blog=10025978&#038;post=1350&#038;subd=mervyndinnen&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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