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10 Tips for Setting Up Your Social Media & Internet Presence Safely to Improve Your Job Search & to Protect Yourself

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AKA – Kiyomi’s 10 Tips for Setting Up Your Social Media & Internet Presence Safely to Improve Your Job Search & to Protect Yourself They say that the interview starts even before you’ve walked through the door and it’s true. The reason why I believe in doing this is because I once got found by Facebook through one of those sites.

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Answering Reader Mail: Re-Entering the Admin Field

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

While your ultimate goal is FT job in admin, the only thing that will get you there is recent experience in admin - the good ol' fashioned catch-22. Call your old contacts, do informational interviews, network twice removed. I can see that you are already doing the informational interviews, even if only online.

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Answering Reader Mail: Before I Move to LA

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

The goal of this project isn't so much to network, but to gather information via informational interviews. It isn't a joke when one is asked in a job interview if you know how to roll calls. Here are a few things I suggest. 1) Meet a lot of people who are/were in the industry and pick their brains.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

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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When you should stop slogging throught writing | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

There were orcs and goblins and all kinds of fantasy monsters. To get experience points, you bashed monsters. You bashed monsters for hours. You bashed monsters by hitting keys on your keyboard whilst wondering if you could hook up a nodding bird à la Homer Simpson. We post our novel word count on our blog or on Facebook.

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The “Ants” Situation

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I think it might be the time for Bianca to see Monsters’ Inc and Bug Life. Armen Shirvanian – Social Analyzer, Mountain Hiker, and Blogger of Timeless Information (Interview) Reply 14 dragos June 14, 2010 at 1:51 pm You’re right about the size of the article and thanks for the nice words. It might help with her fears.

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What Is Rich and Happy

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Writing a book entitled ‘ How To Be Rich and Happy ’ means rather unsurprisingly I regularly get asked by interviewers, “What is rich and happy?” Monsters- Fears- and Moving Forward Reply 5 Tim Brownson October 21, 2010 at 1:30 pm And that’s the thing with life, it’s always work in progress. Lance´s last blog.

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