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Advancing Women in Tech: Executive Nancy Wang’s Forward-Thinking Nonprofit

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This interview has been edited for length and clarity. And in the living room of my very tiny San Francisco apartment, we thought about how to broaden access and right to knowledge and skill and even to a hands-on training workshop. We asked Wang about leadership in the tech sector and how she’s paved her path to success.

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10 Best Tools to Help You Land Your Dream Job [2021]

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And if you’ve worked in the same position for years, you might need some brushing up on your office skills and resume building too. Grow with Google offers free online tutorials and productivity tools to bring your office software and application skills up to date. LinkedIn for Skills Learning and Networking.

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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

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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. She received the biggest salary of her lifetime with all kinds of perks. She attended many of our live workshops and assembled a powerful career portfolio.

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How We Need To Adjust To The Future Of Work – A personal interview with Bonnie Low-Kramen by Karen Mangia for Thrive Global

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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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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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Plus, he earned an annual salary roughly $4,000 higher than Jennifer’s for the same work in an entry-level lab position. Reach out to groups that cater to Black engineers, LGBTQ professionals, Hispanic programmers—whatever skill set you might need. And if you keep up your skill set, you’re always in demand.” John scored a 4.

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The Real Reasons People Are Quitting by Bonnie Low-Kramen

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These are reasons for quitting that would be reasonably offered in letters of resignation and at an exit interview. Reasons that are more difficult to be written down in a letter or spoken aloud in an exit interview. It costs a company 6-9 months of an employee’s annual salary to replace them. It’s just not that simple though.

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Business Insider Feature Story on Former Celebrity Assistant Bonnie Low-Kramen

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Quickly, Low-Kramen realized that prioritizing was a vital movie-set skill. ” From her starting $18,000 salary, Low-Kramen would negotiate each year with Dukakis directly, since there’s no human-resources department for such roles. ” A three-day in-person event with Low-Kramen costs $2,800 a person.

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