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Your questions on office small talk, new commutes and changing careers

Want to opt out of small talk at work? Wondering how to handle a low GPA on job applications? Life Kit posed your anonymous questions about work and job searching to experts from our show.
Source: Trish Pickelhaupt/NPR

If you're working (or job searching), you probably have a stack of questions you'd like to float to the HR department ... anonymously.

We asked two Life Kit experts to answer those anonymous questions for you: Kimberly B. Cummings, a career and leadership expert and author of Next Move, Best Move, and Lorrissa Horton, vice president and general manager of Cisco's Webex Calling and Strategy.

Read their advice below, and submit your own questions (about anything) to, .

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