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Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!)

The Small Business Blog

Temp agencies are useful Рlook at them as being a trial period for potential employees. Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!) by Stefan Țpfer on Feb 08, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

  The CNN article focuses on the growing use of temps.    It was also a key factor in our 2008 forecast that the number of small businesses would increase during the recession - a forecast that met with a lot of skepticism but proved correct (OK, I admit to patting ourselves on the back on this one). 

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Guest Post: What Makes Virtual Administrative Assistants Work?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? And that’s where a virtual administrative assistant can step in to make all the difference. Protocol for addressing Canadian and foreign digni. That's not my job! Welcome to Canada, Mr. President. Just a secretary. Sticks and stones will break my bones.but names.

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Standard Operating Procedures: Tips for Creating Business Systems | Office Organization & Office Efficiency | OfficeArrow

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Outsourcing Options For Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Virtual workers can be from a “Temp-Agency&# or a from contracting firms. Both of these relationships are good for your cost-planning because they are not fixed, permanent costs, they are variable cost, meaning, when the project is finished the contract for your temp-workers, contractors finishes too. Hope this will work.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Tell us your story on how you went from temping in LA to being the EA of high-profile CEOs. I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. So I left that temp gig and went to work for the CEO.