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Super Temps to the Rescue

Small Business Labs

Excellent article in the Harvard Business Review on The Rise of the SuperTemp.  According to the article: "Supertemps are top managers and professionals—from lawyers to CFOs to consultants—who’ve been trained at top schools and companies and choose to pursue project-based careers independent of any major firm."

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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

“We have a whole generation of millennials and college grads who have come out of college seeing how their parents were perhaps treated in 2008 and are choosing income security over job security” by freelancing, temping and so forth. This article appears in the January 2016 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated. Yes, totally!”

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More Canadians Becoming Freelancers

Small Business Labs

  From the article: "The jobs that are coming back are part-time and temporary. The latest data show that there is an ongoing loss of full-time and permanent jobs. This prevents automated programs from posting comments. Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate. Web/Tech women work/life balance

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What can we learn from watching the Crystal Ball?

Job Advice Blog

Companies are hedging their bets by hiring temps instead a steady workforce. The article talks about “labor on demand” and this is on all levels and not only low paying jobs. The article is predicting that as soon as the economy will show signs of improvement the better employees will jump ship to a company that pays better.

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On the Outside Looking In

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was out of work, temping here and there for a year. Click here for an article on preparing your resume. Don’t underestimate the value of temping. Working for a temp agency can either land you a full-time job or help to keep you employed while you are looking. It can be a full-time job just looking for work.

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

She has so much to say to the Administrative community and I am over the moon that I can share her first article with you. Reasons for doing so will be explored in future articles - stay tuned!] I didn't love kow-towing to the age haters, but I also need to work, and let's face it, I am nowhere near ready to retire!

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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

Robert Reich's NY Times article Entrepreneur or Unemployed covers this trend.    Although he doesn't use the term, Reich's article focuses on the growing number of necessity-preneurs.    The CNN article focuses on the growing use of temps.  Having trouble reading this image?

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