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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

Cover letter. Your cover letter is often the first touch point you have with a potential employer, so you need to make the right impression. You should have two versions of your cover letter – a formal one that can be printed and an electronic version for online submission systems.

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Administrative/Clerical: Improve Your Admin Applications and Interviews

Office Dynamics

Because admin applications usually consist of written forms such as a resume and a cover letter, it''s essential to proofread your writing for clarity, grammatical correctness, and accuracy of content. This may require reworking your cover letter, rewriting your personal statement, and supplementing your resume.

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"I'm NOT a people person"

On The Job

They ask us stupid questions (or none at all), they are rude, dismissive and won't return phone calls or e-mails telling us whether or not we are still in contention for a job. The musical candidates -- one sang all her responses to interview questions, while another delivered his entire cover letter verbally as a rap song.

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3 More Tools for Self-Branding and Job Hunting

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I've actually sent in my resume and cover letter to companies with open positions whenever their site was down or when a post had expired. It has paid off where I got a phone call or an interview. I'm actually referring to regular old snail mail, USPS mail. On a whim, I figured I would only have 44 cents to lose.

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Atlanta, Georgia: The City that Smiles

Laughing all the Way to Work

Click on that and you will find a wealth of templates from a resume, cover letter, minutes, agenda and many others. I am not responsible for the content on any sites I have linked to as a resource or linked to in my articles. Whoever had the idea to put the templates on their site should pat themselves on the back.

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How To Build a Recruitment Tech Stack for Your Talent Acquisition Needs?

Recruit CRM

For example, choosing the right phone dialer for your business will boost productivity and generate leads, while the wrong one would do the opposite. It provides better business visibility and candidate experiences through content marketing and social media engagement. Picking the wrong elements will bring everything crashing down.

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What Should Recruiters Look For In CVs When Hiring For Remote Jobs?

Recruit CRM

In this new social world where marketing is all about social media, personal and employer branding, content, hyperlinking and so on, the nine-to-five grind is bound to get a bit overlooked with remote work. A lot of communication occurs via emails, phone or social media channels such as Slack , WhatsApp, LinkedIn and so on.