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How to Ask for More Money (and Get It)

Success

I had been casually blogging for about a year, so the prospect of creating content for pay was thrilling—even if it was just $30 per 500-word post. I won’t say those factors have no influence, but they’re neither limitations nor absolutes in dictating your salary. I landed my first writing gig in 2013.

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10 Best Tools to Help You Land Your Dream Job [2021]

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Plus, Grow with Google provides low cost, paid courses for certification in trending IT and programming fields. And with so many plugins and an inherent blogging capability, it’s a platform you will never outgrow. A paid account provides additional features as well as access to more than 15,000 online courses.

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Career Success A to Z: L is for Lifelong Learning

Eat Your Career

Of course, with so much available to us at our fingertips, it’s also easy to get overwhelmed and trapped in rabbit holes that lead to counter-productive ends. All too often, people ask me if it’s worthwhile to attain a specific certification or take an expensive course to get ahead at work. That’s what inspires me. Yes and No.

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Getting buy in from the boss

Practically Perfect PA

I grew up in a different age where working hard and being humble were par for the course for the PA. Salary Increase. The best way for me to do this was to do an internal time management course. At the end of the course we had to keep a 2-day log of all the work we did. Millennials belong to a Show and Tell Culture.

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Steel Magnolias, Barbie, and Other Wise Women – In Celebration of a Complicated Women’s History Month By Bonnie Low-Kramen

Bonnie Low-Krayman

I should not have a “mommy penalty” on my salary because I have children and neither should you. Take a summer course, travel to a new place, do an online class to open your mind to new ideas. Carol Cozewith on listening to the advice of others Retired Designer My advice to my granddaughters and all young women is this.

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The Good, Better, Best of Professional Development for Admins

Jen Lawrence

Despite being offered a six-figure salary, I politely declined. Because being respected and valued at work is more important than a high salary. Yes, a high salary may provide me with the opportunity to have a cushier life. So you may be thinking, “Does offering training really counterbalance a less than stellar salary?”

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Are assistants overqualified?

Practically Perfect PA

It has been really interesting reading all of the different job descriptions, the skills that are required and the salaries attached to different levels of the role. This of course leads to assistants feeling demoralised, unappreciated and ultimately unchallenged. What happens to an EA who can manage a diary standing on her head?