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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

Our mission, set forth by an online course: Write lines of code that would put the creature’s fluffy, deceptively innocent picture on a webpage and let users click on it, zipping them to Wikipedia’s “kitten” entry. “I Some managers worry about investing in developing people who can then easily take those skills to a competitor,” says David G.

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Uber Enters the Staffing Business

Small Business Labs

This, of course, means Uber will not have to deal with the employee classification or other legal issues they faces in their ride hailing business.   For businesses, Uber says they can provide a broader pool of potential temp workers and simplify the hiring and payment of these workers. .   

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Corporations Hiring More Contingent Talent

Small Business Labs

  The tagline of the study is "the future of work is here" By this they mean contingent talent - freelancers, consultants, independent contractors, temps etc. - In order to be successful they need to have the right people with the right skills at the right time. This, of course, means more work for independent workers.

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Executive Assistants Beware, Dealing with a Saboteur

Office Dynamics

Gloria just finished a temp assignment and experienced an awful case of sabotaging by a peer admin who is a lot younger than her and has been with the company for a year. While Gloria has finished her temp assignment, she wants to be prepared should she meet Sally Saboteur in the future. Well, this is a tough one.

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8 reasons why contract employment is popular

Page Personnel

Valuable skills-building As a contractor, professionals usually have to hit the ground running, learn the job at hand quickly, communicate effectively, and build rapport with other team members. Doing this builds up soft skills and transferable skills fairly quickly, as the short time frame requires adaptability in order to be successful.

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Executive Assistants Beware, Dealing with a Saboteur

Office Dynamics

Gloria just finished a temp assignment and experienced an awful case of sabotaging by a peer admin who is a lot younger than her and has been with the company for a year. While Gloria has finished her temp assignment, she wants to be prepared should she meet Sally Saboteur in the future. Well, this is a tough one.

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How Assistants Manage Their Workload (and all the extras, like training!)

Office Dynamics

Are you one of the many assistants who claims you can’t attend a training course or even get away for a free webinar because you’re just too busy? If you don’t have that luxury consider proposing an office temp to cover for a day or two while you’re away. Get a buddy. Get organized!

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