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Getting hired is today’s goal. Whether you use a self-made web page resume to display your job skills and history or circulate your qualifications through alternative means.

Perhaps you have a LinkedIn professional networking listing, or a Facebook page, both very helpful in today’s hiring process.

Do you also like to read stories of triumph over long odds? Here are such tales in a recent “DoubleEx” column on Slate.com, written by Emily Yoffe. Enjoy, and hang in there!

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