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10 gifts to give your career

On The Job

Find a mentor. Ask someone you respect and feel you really connect with for feedback on what you’re doing with your career or in your job. Or, you can ask a professional organization about helping you find a mentor who can help guide you through some career issues. Pick up the phone. Take the high road. I love #10.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Because I knew nothing about the job except my title (EA) and the dept (I think it was in marketing). And I had a lot of temp work coming my way, I had a lot of interviews about to be booked, I had just started my job hunt, and I had so many unanswered questions. So why forego a full time job for a 2 year trial?

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

Hochwarter over the phone. And I do understand that money does not buy happiness, etc etc, but we do heroes, mentors and models of good behavior. Those of us who have been in the workforce for a longer period of time owe it to ourselves to help them, mentor them and encourage them. I would love to see it myself.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I opened the phone book and signed up with every single one in town. 6) Be strategic about your career plan and job hunt. If you’ve been doing the same job every year without any growth or increased responsibility, you really only have 2 years of experience that’s been repeated X amount of years. How did you recover? (or