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Organize Your To-Do List into These 4 Categories

Success

Categories to organize your to-do list. Using the triage method below—touching things only once and then moving on—to organize my to-do list into categories keeps me from being overwhelmed. Even microbusiness owners can benefit from an intern or temp. Committing my priorities to words focuses me mentally.

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Etiquette Lessons for the Company Picnic

On The Job

And with the increasing temps comes the surest sign of summer: An invitation to the office picnic. Attending a get-together is as important to your career as attending a project meeting with your boss’s boss. Your spouse, your kids and you should all thank the boss or the organizers for the event. Remember to say “thank you.”

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Session 3 - Wednesday, Sept 28, 2011

Office Dynamics

She shared how her working career began back in Iowa, working as a temp worker scanning a seemingly endless supply of documents. All the other temps quit, some after only one day! Jasmine urged us not to cheat our organizations out of the quality, talented and engaged employees we could be.

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

The gentleman on the call introduced himself as a consultant with a well-known local staffing agency who had reviewed the resume I had uploaded to the organization's website. You did the things, but how did they help the organization? But then, at the end of that first week, I received a call, seemingly from the job search Universe.

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Executives and Managers Embrace Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

I am so excited to write this kick-off Blog for our 2nd Annual Admin Blog-a-thon as I have great news about shifts taking place in the Administrative Profession in terms of executives and managers embracing this role as vital to their organization's and leadership team's success. Security lies within you, not an organization.

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Answering Reader Mail: Re-Entering the Admin Field

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I thoroughly enjoy the diversity of these positions, the project management, and the role of admin support. Concomitantly, over the last three years I've served as a committee member and conference organizer with an educational nonprofit. Temp, volunteer, apply for PT work and list that as your present role.

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Executives and Managers Embrace Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

I am so excited to write this kick-off Blog for our 2nd Annual Admin Blog-a-thon as I have great news about shifts taking place in the Administrative Profession in terms of executives and managers embracing this role as vital to their organization's and leadership team's success. Security lies within you, not an organization.