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What Highly Skilled Independent Workers Want

Small Business Labs

.  Like PWC's Talent Exchange and Deloitte's Open Talent Community , the goal of GigNow is to help EY find and engage skilled independent workers - both for EY's internal use and for use on client projects. The opportunity the learn and build skills. These are: Access to diverse and interesting gigs.

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Skills required to be a good minute taker

Practically Perfect PA

Not everyone can be a good minute taker – it’s a definite skill and quite often an art, hence the name of my course, The Art of Minute Taking. There are definite skills required to be a good minute taker and I’ve listed some of them below: Listening. Strive to develop these skills so you can be the best minute taker you can.

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The Expanding High Skill Gig Economy

Small Business Labs

More and more professions that require advanced degrees or highly specialized skills are joining the gig and/or on-demand economy. Key quote: "Three-quarters of law firms with more than 250 lawyers use contract attorneys, says a 2016 report from legal consultancy Altman Weil." A good example is law. 

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12 Days of Christmas Webinar: Must-Have Skills for 2017

Office Dynamics

What are the eight must-have skills for executive and administrative assistants for today? As you enter into 2017, be sure you are equipped with this top-notch skill set. Joan also talks about one bonus skill, tune in to see what it is. We invite you to watch the webinar replay: Must-Have Skills for 2017. Bonus Resources.

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5 Traits of a Next-Level Entrepreneur

Success

What are the characteristics and skills of a good entrepreneur ? The league you’re playing in and the required skill set jumps from pickup ball to NBA very quickly, so if you haven’t yet, focus on developing these five qualities to make sure you’re ready to level up as an entrepreneur.

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Tasty Tidbits: Professional Development News & Views (Nov. 18, 2016)

Eat Your Career

I wrote a few new articles for Ivy Exec over the past few weeks. Are you’re interested in enhancing your leadership skills or just expanding your personal and professional horizons? 18, 2016) appeared first on Eat Your Career. From Yours Truly. If you missed them, take a peek at my favorites here: *In honor of the election*.

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Advancing Women in Tech: Executive Nancy Wang’s Forward-Thinking Nonprofit

Success

She also founded, in 2016, a nonprofit membership organization , Advancing Women in Tech, which “accelerates careers and addresses diversity gaps in leadership.” And in the living room of my very tiny San Francisco apartment, we thought about how to broaden access and right to knowledge and skill and even to a hands-on training workshop.

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