On The Job

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

But now you’re about to take on one of the most difficult tasks in this job search journey: Negotiating a salary. That’s because your skills at negotiating will not only impress your new employer, but it’s expected. So how do you negotiate the right salary for a new job? You’re willing to take whatever they give you?

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Success

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

But taking advantage of opportunities like this requires care, skill and planning. They even walk you through the job interview process and salary negotiation. He even includes his guide to the “perfect 30-minute interview” that is sure to provide insights. An opening shows up on the radar, and we take the position.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 2, 2023

This interview has been edited for length and clarity. And before your career, growing up, did you have a sense of gender equality? You could call it non-stereotypical gender activity that I did growing up; I even called them “non-girly things.” Nancy Wang: The tech industry has an average 15 to 20% women in technical roles.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Imagine you’re interviewing a candidate for a new job, and you have a sense that something’s up. Unfortunately, extensive studies show that our feelings about candidates in interviews offer poor predictions of future employee success. What works much better than typical unstructured interviews are structured ones.

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On The Job

DECEMBER 7, 2020

But recently I talked with a job seeker who interviewed for a job and got really good feedback from the hiring manager. While she had done some research on the employer, she learned things during the interview that concerned her. But in this job seeker's case, she was bringing in enough to live on, along with her partner's salary.

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Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 19, 2016

I’ve spent many years cleverly covering up the fact that I spent most of my career hopping from one job to another in an effort to climb the career ladder. Here are a few of my thoughts… Salary increase. It can be a lot easier to find a new role and negotiate an increased salary during the recruitment process.

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Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 18, 2013

Following on from Monday’s blog here are another five interview question and answers specifically for assistants. If the new role requires you to work in a department supporting a number of people the answers should detail the excellent skills you have that will help the team succeed. What are you looking for in terms of salary?

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Eat Your Career

JULY 25, 2018

Therefore, if you’re expecting to earn an annual salary of $60,000, you should plan for a 6-month job search. However, if you have a strong resume, a robust network, and good interview skills, you could land something sooner. It can feel like a never-ending trudge up a steep mountain. But that’s the nature of the beast.

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Bonnie Low-Krayman

JANUARY 10, 2024

What leaders and HR recruiters have discovered is that many of their current staff possess not-so-obvious talents and skills that can be leveraged for current projects. In addition to already having excellent organizational, communication, and scheduling skills, many administrative professionals also can flex the following skills.

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Job Advice Blog

MAY 15, 2010

It’s a competition for sure, and only, say, five résumés might be considered for invitations to face-to-face interviews. That depends: if you have good writing skills, you can draft a résumé and then have some people whose proficiency and judgment you trust review and edit it for you until it becomes excellent.

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C-Suite Assistants

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The demand for efficiency is at an all-time high, and as organizations grow and become more complex, skilled administrative professionals are needed now more than ever. Complex travel arrangements, calendar management, and keeping up with technical innovations are only part of what an excellent executive assistant needs to do for you.

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Worxbee

DECEMBER 20, 2021

That means honing those remote recruitment skills will be extra-important. It might even shift you further up their preference list if they’re applying to multiple positions. Most candidates want to know details, such as how interviews will run and what any potential pre-hiring test will look like. Salary is also vague.

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C-Suite Assistants

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Whether it be a start-up that has just received seed funding or a company that has just raised series A, B, or C rounds, every C-Suite Executive of a fast-growing company knows what it’s like to end the day feeling like you’ve dropped the ball and haven’t focused on critical strategic initiatives. What are the hours? What Makes a Great Hire?

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Office Dynamics

JANUARY 21, 2020

And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. What is coming up on the calendar for the next three weeks? She received the biggest salary of her lifetime with all kinds of perks. She is living it up.

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On The Job

MARCH 18, 2019

With a low unemployment rate, some employers are pulling out all the stops when it comes to recruiting workers, such as offering perks and higher salaries. So, on the first day when you show up and expect to begin working on exciting projects, you're told that those projects are sort of on hold.

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BMT Office Administration

JANUARY 24, 2024

If you’re not familiar with the term or are unsure whether your company is guilty of using dry promotions in a manner that can hurt employee morale, read up on the definition of the term below and explore some common examples of dry promotions. What is a dry promotion? This isn’t always malicious on the employer’s part.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

As a part of our interview series called “How Employers and Employees are Reworking Work Together,” we had the pleasure to interview Bonnie Low-Kramen. Based on 1,000+ interviews, Bonnie’s new book about the workplace is called Staff Matters and will be published in early 2023. Base salary is only one way to earn money.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 9, 2008

I had an interview at 11, but I was busy with my job, my father was in the hospital and I was trying to arrange an engagement party for my daughter. I finally decided that they would just have to take me as I was because I didn't have the time to do everything I knew I should be doing to prepare for this interview. It will be noticed.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

OCTOBER 10, 2022

That singular interview date was on Zoom and organized by a recruiter eager for a commission. Your goal is to find the best match for your skills, talents, experience, and interests. The recruiter has an obligation to set everyone up for success by making this happen. Push for the second interview. It happened again.

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Recruit CRM

JANUARY 11, 2022

Is the interview process smooth enough? We have listed a few— The job application process Screening methods used The interview process Candidate feedback Onboarding process Providing a bad candidate experience will not just affect your recruiting agency but also your recruitment brand. Post interview, it’s essential to give feedback.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MARCH 25, 2008

I don't remember my first interview, although I do remember my first job and my first paycheque. I was a junior secretary at a large bank and my salary was $137 every two weeks. In the late 70s and early 80s, jobs were plentiful and I never considered when I went on an interview that I wouldn't get the job.

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Page Personnel

JULY 11, 2021

For starters, you’ve probably already built up a specific skill set and know the ins-and-outs of business operations from already working in several. You may think that taking on a new career could equal a setback in seniority and salary. However, this is where you can focus on your transferable skills.

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Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 19, 2014

” Driscoll added, “Professionals considering job moves should evaluate not only salary but also where they will have the greatest opportunity to build skills and advance their careers.” Other benefits like telecommuting, flextime or generous vacation time can make up for a smaller paycheck. Gaining new skills.

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Recruit CRM

APRIL 9, 2021

It may be easier to go with the flow whilst conducting job interviews , but sometimes even while following your entire hiring checklist, you might end up making a bad hire. There are five key aspects that you've to keep in mind while hiring a candidate: Whether the candidate has the proper skills required for the job.

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Recruit CRM

JANUARY 20, 2022

This means you have to set up a few things like email templates , create a jobs page, and start using it. You can assign candidates to jobs and then share this list of candidates with the hiring manager which lets you spare time for other tasks rather than following up the hiring manager all the time. Why Do You Need an ATS?

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Recruit CRM

JANUARY 16, 2022

Hiring outside of the confines of your city also opens up positions to people who can’t afford to live close to your company, such as new graduates, for example, or just anyone who hasn’t had the time yet to climb up the corporate ladder. So it’s not only better for those you’re hiring - it’s also more profitable.

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Recruit CRM

APRIL 5, 2020

Do you have any gaps in your own skills (like business development for example)? My understanding is that most people who dare to venture out as entrepreneurs have a basic level of most skills required for the various roles in a start-up. start-up cannot afford higher salaries. Perseverance (not giving up).

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 8, 2013

Still trying to keep up with my blog and column to answer your great questions and comments! The most popular question on this column is about salary and this is the answer I wrote: How much can the best executive assistants earn in a year? It is never their life goal to grow up to be an executive assistant. To get you started.

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Ideas.Ted

JULY 8, 2021

The results: Increased productivity and creativity; improved recruitment and retention; less burnout for founders and leaders; and more balanced and sustainable lives for workers — all without cutting salaries or sacrificing customer service. As a result, companies didn’t cut salaries when they reduced hours.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

How do you select the candidates that go forward for job interviews? I have spent my hours chasing recruitment agents for example to find out if my CV was forwarded, if there was any feedback following an interview and if I actually got the job. Which skills make me suitable for this role? It can be a nightmare.

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Who's the Real Boss?

JANUARY 10, 2019

And in this day and age, whilst we still battle internally in business with the out-dated stereotypes attached to our roles, we also often find these stereotypes creeping into the job descriptions and accompanying advertised salaries for our roles, creating silly perceptions for everyone to see and stereotypes that really do become inescapable.

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Recruit CRM

MAY 11, 2021

This means, you clearly have a higher chance of finding talent on social media more than ever, and these numbers are going up every year. If you build and maintain a deep pool of candidates from previous applicants & interviews you may never have to go on a wild goose chase to find candidates again! Doing this is simple.

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Bonnie Low Kramen

JANUARY 11, 2023

Quickly, Low-Kramen realized that prioritizing was a vital movie-set skill. When the actor was away for months from home, it was up to the personal assistant to make a rented apartment or suite feel less sterile. “To keep up, she signed as many as she possibly could, but I did a great forgery.”

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All Things Admin

DECEMBER 18, 2020

The reason why is summed up perfectly by one of my favorite quotes from Joan Burge, founder, and CEO of Office Dynamics, Inc. Go to your human resources department and ask to see your employee file so you can write down all of the job titles, dates, and salary details for each position you’ve held with your current company.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 28, 2015

And increasingly, PAs are asked in job interviews how they approach the issue of confidentiality. In many cases, you’ll know about promotions, salary changes, redundancies, acquisitions and mergers before anyone else. Some things you will pick up by accident – perhaps when you’re skimming through emails.

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Job Advice Blog

JULY 13, 2010

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection So, How about a Career Coach? Payment is made up front and varies, but it’s in the range of 5 percent of a candidate’s annual salary. Read my blog.

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Recruit CRM

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

As per the US Department of Labour, the cost of making a bad hiring decision can be as much as 30% of an employee's annual salary. Nevertheless, knowing what causes certain problems and what are the obstacles one might face during the recruitment phase, you can at least rise up to stay away from them.

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