Laughing all the Way to Work

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Making Travel Arrangements

Laughing all the Way to Work

If your company policy allows it, I have found it more convenient and time saving to use a travel agency to make travel arrangements. Depending on how busy you are and your office policy, you can decide whether you prefer to book it yourself or use a travel agency.

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The job of looking for a job

Laughing all the Way to Work

1) Do try the temp agencies. When you go for an interview you have to keep in mind that they really do want to hire someone, but you have to make it worth their while to hire you. Look at being unemployed as a full-time job and what you are trying to do is sell yourself. Here is what I recommend. It is better to be working.

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Working 9 to 5: What a Way to Make a Living!

Laughing all the Way to Work

Temporary Secretary – Paul McCartney - “All I need is help for a little while” I got back into the workforce through a temp agency. It is a foot in the door. When you are temping, act as if you are on an interview every day.

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Balancing Professionalism and Friendship in the Office: Guest Blog by Elaine Hirsch

Laughing all the Way to Work

We both went our separate ways: I moved out west with my young daughter and started working for an oil company and she got married, started a family and continued to work at the law enforcement agency we had both worked for. A few years later we reconnected and now we are the best of friends.

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Happy Retirement to someone who gave me a chance.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Finally, I got a job interview through the temp agency for a one-year contract. It was long hours and no thanks. I started to pound the pavement looking. I temped here and there for a year. Was I ever going to find anything permanent? It would be the longest contract I had been offered so I was anxious to do well in the interview.

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On the Outside Looking In

Laughing all the Way to Work

Working for a temp agency can either land you a full-time job or help to keep you employed while you are looking. Are you still creating old-style resumes and listing duties upon duties, when all the employer really wants to know is what you are able to do for them? Click here for an article on preparing your resume.

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I gave at the office

Laughing all the Way to Work

Agencies such as World Vision are on the ground now helping where they can. These children, who are under five years old, were fending for themselves on the street because the orphanage collapsed. But for the charity of an old woman who came to feed them, they had no one. Please give as you are able for the care of the children of Haiti.