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Dry promotions: Definition, considerations, and guidelines for employers

BMT Office Administration

Getting a promotion is an exciting event for employees. However, some of that excitement is probably due to the pay raise that they expect will come with the promotion. But sometimes employers offer promotions without an increase in pay, a growing phenomenon called dry promotions. What is a dry promotion?

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Employee Perk or Productivity Secret? Corporate Wellness Programs Deliver on Both

Success

In decades gone by, the only perk you might have received from your boss was a fruit basket around the holidays. It concluded that programs are most likely to fail if they aren’t integrated properly into a “comprehensive workplace health promotion strategy.” It can show that you care about your employees outside of the nine-to-five.

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Answering Reader Mail: Re-Entering the Admin Field

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

So, it's best to search for temporary, short-term admin work via temping, volunteering, applying for part time work so you have something to put on your resume. Craft your resume based on experience and skill set, not chronologically - and tell a different story. So when they get that job hunting email, it's just a typical update.

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What Are You Thankful For?

The Office Professionals Place

The holidays are quickly approaching and this is the time of year when we reflect on our successes and goals and also begin thinking about what we can do to reach the next level the following year. Some have lost jobs, didn’t get promotions or pay raises, or lost funding due to employer budget cuts.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

First, what you have been up to recently that is exciting, fun or new, why and what sort of job you are looking for, and your contact information and an online link to your resume or a social media profile (more on this later). The kind lady asked me what I did for work so I gave her my resume. She gave me her business card.

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Taking the time to acknowledge someone and say thanks.

Laughing all the Way to Work

This could include sympathy cards, thank you cards, birthday cards, congratulations on a promotion, a card to reconnect with a client you havent heard from in awhile, or many other reasons. I dont often promote any businesses from my blog, but I thought this one was worth talking about. To send to clients of your company.

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Getting your foot in the door.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If you can prove yourself as a good worker you can go up through the ranks and because they already know how you work, they are more apt to promote you. She said it wouldnt look good on my resume if I was seen as a job hopper. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Excellent material!