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Interview Preparation Part 2: Nervous Butterflies?

Job Advice Blog

Piggybacking on our last blog’s topic of interview preparation, I’d like to write a little bit about being nervous on an interview. This week, I had the pleasure of working [.]. The post Interview Preparation Part 2: Nervous Butterflies? appeared first on Free Job Advice Blog.

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The Practically Perfect PA guide to finding the perfect PA job

Practically Perfect PA

I’m very excited to launch the first Practically Perfect PA eBook! With the support of Career Moves we have been able to put together a guide to help you prepare for the perfect PA job. Each chapter is dedicated to helping you through the process of applying for and securing the dream assistant role. What can you expect to find in our eBook: I think we have covered everything that you will need to think about when it comes to planning your next career move including the following: Looking

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Defining and Achieving Small Business Success

Small Business Labs

Defining and Achieving Small Business Success  is a new study we recently conducted in partnership with the sales and marketing automation company  Infusionsof t.  The study consisted of a survey of over 400 small business owners coupled with a set of 26 in-depth interviews with "successful" business owners. These are small business owners who told us they were meeting or exceeding their business goals and objectives and self-described their business as "successful&

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Do You Live By Guiding Principles for a Successful Life?

Office Dynamics

I live by a set of Guiding Principles that have attributed to an enjoyable life that I would consider successful. They are simple and to the point but can have a huge impact on your career and personal life. I’d love to share them with you today. 12 Guiding Principles for a Successful Life. Attitude: Life is 90% attitude. It’s not what happens to you that is important; what matters is how you choose to respond.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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Why HR and IT Need to Make Peace

On The Job

When IT has an unfilled opening, the entire organization feels it. Projects stall, daily processes slow and productivity drops. That’s why human resources often kicks into overdrive to try and fill IT positions as quickly as possible. They know that technology is so deeply ingrained into every department that it’s critical for the bottom line to get IT running as smoothly – and quickly – as possible.

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Satisfaction With Traditional Jobs at 10 Year High - Still Well Below Independent Worker Satisfaction Levels

Small Business Labs

The Wall Street Journal's Job Satisfaction Hits a 10-Year High—But It’s Still Below 50%  covers the results from The Conference Board's annual job satisfaction survey.  As the chart on the left below from the WSJ article shows, just under half (49.6%) of U.S. workers surveyed reported they are satisfied with their jobs. While lower by quite a bit than the 60%+ levels in the 1980s, satisfaction is at a 10 year high and well above its low of just over 40% in 2010.

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Executives and Assistants Working in Partnership with Special Guest, Joanne Linden

Office Dynamics

In this video from Facebook Live Joan Burge sits down with Joanne Linden to talk about executives and assistants working in partnership. Joanne is the Chief Executive Assistant at Synopsys; Master Trainer at AdminUniverse and an Author. What is a strategic partnership and how do Joan and Joanne recommend getting there? . Joanne joins us in Las Vegas to learn the Executives and Assistants Working in Partnership course that Joan Burge developed for the executive and assistant team.

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The One Person Who Can Give You a Great Career

On The Job

Over the weekend I watched several news hosts interview various people around the U.S. who explained why they planned to vote for a certain presidential candidate in November. One thing that struck me was the number of people who were either unemployed or about to lose their jobs who decided to base their vote on the idea that a presidential candidate would bring back their jobs and defunct industries to their towns.

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Feeling undervalued….

Practically Perfect PA

We are chuffed to bits to be guest blogging today for the Practically Perfect PA Blog. After sponsoring the first ever Big Questions event in Edinburgh, we wanted to introduce ourselves to some of you that weren’t able to make it along. One of the main topics discussed at the Big Questions was “ How do we get our organisation to value the work that we do ?

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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Mattel Brings Back the ThingMaker as a 3D Printer

Small Business Labs

Way back in the early 1960s Mattel released a product call ThingMaker. Kids used the ThingMaker to make creepy crawlers, which were squishy, plastic bugs. Youtube has  a 1964 Mattel Creepy Crawler TV commercia l, which nicely describes the product and provides a nostalgic look at life in the 1960s.  Let's face it, ThingMaker is a great name for a 3D printer.

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7 Home Office Hacks That Will Help You Get Organized

Productivity Bits

C lear the clutter and add some extra functionality to your workspace with these office hacks. Whether you work from home full-time, or simply enjoy having a workspace in the house when you need it, maintaining an organized space is crucial to your productivity. But when you’re working with limited space and resources, it can be tricky to reach the full organizational potential of a room.

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Guest Posting 101: 5 Things Every Guest Poster Should Know

Tips From T. Marie

A quick shout out to my awesome Biz Buddy Vicki Voisin for inspiring this post. She’s always stopping me during one of our weekly chats to say “That’s a blog post!” and many of my best posts have been because of it. The Tips from T.Marie Blog has been around awhile. Almost 9 years to be exact. In all of those years I can count the number of guest posts I’ve had here on one hand.

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Win a hotel break in Berlin with Roomex

Practically Perfect PA

This month we have a fantastic competition for you guys! The wonderful folks at Roomex are offering one lucky reader the chance to win a city break in Berlin. Here are Roomex to tell you a little more about the competition and what they do…. Win a hotel break in Berlin with Roomex. You have enough on your plate. The ink never dries on your to-do list.

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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Podcast 014: Select a spot

Clutter Coach

by. In this episode, I’ll talk about how you can make it much easier to find your stuff, like your keys, when you pick the right spot to store them. Here are some highlights: Do you lose your keys regularly? You don’t really have ADHD. What are the essential factors for selecting a spot? Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube.

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Interview Preparation Part 2: Nervous Butterflies?

Job Advice Blog

Piggybacking on our last blog’s topic of interview preparation, I’d like to write a little bit about being nervous on an interview. This week, I had the pleasure of working […] The post Interview Preparation Part 2: Nervous Butterflies? appeared first on JTL Services Inc.

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The Evolutionary Shift Of “S**t! We’Re Doomed!”

Brilliantly Better

We live in the most frightening, terrifying age of the human kind. There are terrorist attacks against innocent people every day. There are military coups and leaders are turning into dictators. The very United States, the world guardian and the… The post The Evolutionary Shift Of “S**t! We’Re Doomed!” appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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Tech of the week: Administrate

Practically Perfect PA

What is Administrate? Administrate is a training management solution built for training companies and internal training departments that helps them run their entire operation. Where traditional solutions are focused primarily on the student experience, they are focused on making the administration of training easier, more efficient, and more visible through their CRM, reporting engine, automated communications, and workflow support.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Podcast 013: Stores are for storing things

Clutter Coach

by. In this episode, I’ll talk about why you should only purchase what you need in the immediate future and why. Here are some highlights: Warehousing goods creates clutter. Couldn’t you use that space for something more important? How to satisfy the acquisition urge without shopping. Subscribe: iTunes ⋅ Stitcher ⋅ Soundcloud ⋅ YouTube.

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Interview Preparation Part 2: Nervous Butterflies?

Job Advice Blog

Piggybacking on our last blog’s topic of interview preparation, I’d like to write a little bit about being nervous on an interview. This week, I had the pleasure of working with an extremely friendly candidate in the Southeast for a customer service position. She had the perfect amount of solid experience related to the position […].

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How to Start (and Keep) a Journal that Works for You

Productivityist

In my last post , I dove into how journaling can: – Deepen your awareness and connection to your work and yourself. – Give you clarity and confidence to make important decisions. – Propel you towards what you want to accomplish. That all sounds fine and dandy, but how exactly do you keep a journal that accomplishes these things?

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So… Technology to Help you Fly happened!

Practically Perfect PA

Round two of our regional events took place last week in Leeds and Edinburgh. The Office Superhero… Technology to Help you Fly was a resounding success with just under 100 assistants booked onto each event. Thanks again to everyone for coming, especially those in Leeds who managed to make it across the city despite it being the hottest day of the year!

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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What Really Drives Employee Engagement

Energage

Show Me the Money Isn’t Where it’s at. Top leaders are shocked when talented employees jump ship. Working with more than 33,000 organizations over the last decade, we’ve seen this reaction before. Leaders left scratching their heads, curiously thinking: but we paid them far above the industry average. Why on earth would they choose to leave? The truth is, “show me the money isn’t where it’s at.” .

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3 Tips for Setting Realistic and Beneficial Business Goals

Small Business CEO

As a small business owner, setting and achieving realistic and beneficial business goals is necessary for ultimate business success. Without having goals for your business, you run the risk of never reaching as far as you could with your organization or pushing yourself to your professional limits. However, setting business goals isn’t just about thinking about something reasonable you want to achieve and hoping that it happens for you.

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The Productivityist Podcast: The Unmistakable Srinivas Rao

Productivityist

On this episode of the podcast, I chat with my friend Srinivas Rao. Srini is the author of the book Unmistakable: Why Only is Better Than Best and the founder and CEO of Unmistakable Creative. We talk about his book (which I’ve dog-eared to death) and going down the path of becoming unmistakable. We discuss mastery, habits, systems, goals, in depth.

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Boost your Confidence, Boost your Success

Small Business CEO

In many ways the difference between running a small business and being a freelancer is that the pressures are greater. Everything comes down to you ultimately, it’s just that everything amounts to far more things! For freelancers, as for CEOs of small businesses, confidence and assertiveness are key. After all if you don’t have confidence in your own abilities, and demonstrate it, why should a prospective client or potential new hire have any confidence in you.

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha