Job Advice Blog

APRIL 22, 2010

Many of my clients have asked me to help them prep for a phone interview. What do you do on the phone? The interviewer can’t see you – there is not opportunity to gauge body language or make the same kind of connection. Referenced on your resume and your cover letter should be the best number(s) to reach you.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 29, 2011

Use tools such as LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter regularly to keep in touch with professional contacts. Sending your resume and cover letter on high-quality paper via the post office may seem outdated, but people receive so little mail today that your hard-copy materials could pay off. Try This Instead.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 13, 2011

1) Tweet My Jobs - I know most of us may roll our eyes or not believe that people have found jobs through Twitter or Facebook because it seems so far-fetched and unlikely. We swapped stories about interview attire. So I was skeptical too and started to Google how people used Twitter to find jobs and I came across Tweet My Jobs.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

2) Ask to meet for fun and to conduct informational interviews When you send out an email as mentioned above, those who are happy to hear from you and want to help you will respond. You can hang out with your friend and informally conduct an informational interview. Those who are too busy will probably just read it and delete.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 18, 2009

Click on that and you will find a wealth of templates from a resume, cover letter, minutes, agenda and many others. Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. Whoever had the idea to put the templates on their site should pat themselves on the back. I believe someone mentioned there were almost 500 to choose from.

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Admin Awards

DECEMBER 1, 2021

Which three phone apps can you not live without? “You can sell yourself and your abilities in your cover letter even if you don’t have a degree,” Gaughan says. Panelists/participants were asked: Which three phone apps can you not live without? How do you make the transition internally? – BE A ‘SPONGE.’

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

When I started out, no one really had a website/blog/Twitter/Facebook/MySpace so I just opened up the YellowPages and called every single one. Once you find out their email or fax number, they will ask you to submit your cover letter and resume. It didn't sit well with me that the usual interview process wasn't in place.)

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