Top 100 Career blogs

It was a nice surprise to find HR funda blog in the Top 100 Global Ranking of English-language Career Blogs. Currently the blog is ranked 47th and if you take 5 seconds of yours to vote for HR Funda it will help in improving the blog rating :D.

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