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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

After giving notice, and thinking now that it wasn't perhaps the best time for clarity or objectivity, I dusted off my resume, added my now former role, and began applying to likely-sounding prospects. Bear in mind, I had been recruited or referred into my past couple of roles, so my resume hadn't been top of mind for a while.

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4 Steps to Achieving Career Goals During a Pandemic

On The Job

Your resume. Does the resume show how you've grown? You need to be able to constantly show that you're taking that next step, either through key projects in your current job, educational or training efforts or even through professional associations. What needs to happen for you to be in charge of the next project?

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Snuff Out the Burnout

Office Dynamics

If you can’t take a few days off, even just one day, in a relaxing environment with no computers, faxes, e-mails, phone calls or any thoughts of work, can help renew you. If you are feeling snowed under at work, sit down with a boss and prioritize your projects. Set realistic objectives. Categorize them and then attack!

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

They don’t have an updated resume, a professional portfolio of work samples, or a social media presence. A polished resume that accurately represents you professionally is one of the most powerful tools in your toolkit. Most admins have a resume, but not many consider it a living document. Your resume always needs to be current.

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Use These Tools to Make Your Remote Work Dreams Come True

Allwork

Whether you’re seeking a part-time gig, a freelance project, or a full-time remote position, the service can be a helpful step in making your remote dreams come true. Services include career coaching, in-house experts who review your resume, one-on-one career coaching sessions, and flexible job search guidance.

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What makes a great administrative assistant?

Page Personnel

Administrative assistants also often work closely with senior-level employees and executives to take care of organisational duties such as answering phones, booking meetings and making travel arrangements on their behalf. Clear communication skills – admin assistants absorb all the communications that executives haven’t time to deal with.

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5 Ways to Thrill Your Customers (Because a Thank You Email Just Doesn’t Cut It Anymore)

Success

Or the physician who returns a prospective patient’s call on a Saturday, spends 20 minutes on the phone discussing symptoms, and then shares a private cellphone number with instructions to call back if further medical advice is needed. I do more than 700 phone calls, not emails, to clients on their birthdays each year.

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