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How to Organize Business Cards & Networking Conversations - Interview & Giveaway @ContactKeeper

Stephanie LH Calahan

When you attend tradeshows or networking meetings, do you later experience the business card pile up? We meet new people all the time and have lots of detailed business conversations. I have found that the Contact Keeper is a much more organized and streamlined way keep cards and conversation notes. The time is now!

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5 Ways to Shine at a Job Fair

On The Job

Eat or drink away from the recruiter tables – keep at least one hand free to shake hands and accept business cards. Practice your promotional message that outlines your strengths and how you could be of value to the company. When you speak, make sure you keep your head up and pointed toward the interviewer.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

Third Paragraph – Action : Suggest the course of action you’d like the reader to take, such as schedule a phone call or interview. Developing a professional portfolio will help you be remembered not only in an interview scenario but at annual performance reviews as well. Personal Business Cards. Professional Portfolio.

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How I Learned to Love Selling (and How You Can Too)

Success

Got hired after a job interview? Sadly, this is the conventional wisdom on networking: talk about yourself with as many people as you can for just long enough to hand out your business card in the hopes that some of these seeds will sprout, even without watering. Did you convince your partner to date you? You sold yourself.

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5 Steps to Creating Your Digital Portfolio

All Things Admin

Portfolios are useful in interviews, at review time, and whenever you want to make a case for a promotion or raise. Once you’re confident that everything is in order, then you can include the website address on your resume, business cards, social media profiles (especially LinkedIn), and professional association profiles.

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The Office* Show and how to be a great delegate

Practically Perfect PA

This is what I did: I used social media to promote the event and my attendance at it. I stood at the back of the theatre for Laura Schwartz’s interview which was truly inspiring and totally free! I also dipped into a few other free talks and sat in on Hamish Jenkinson’s interview (he was PA to Madonna).

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Answering Reader Mail: What questions should I ask an interviewer when applying for an Executive Assistant position?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

What questions should I ask an interviewer when applying for an Executive Assistant position? However, sometimes during an interview, the interviewer answers all of my questions during the conversation without me even asking. The easy way to answer this question is to have you Google interview questions online.