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Answering Reader Mail

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Price does matter too, but for us to even consider a vendor we usually want to find someone that serves our immediate needs. For a travel and event company, perhaps you can offer the highest priced service or menu at the 2nd highest pricing level instead. 1) Focus your resume on your skills/talents vs the job title/chronology.

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Standard Operating Procedures: Tips for Creating Business Systems | Office Organization & Office Efficiency | OfficeArrow

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Checklists ensure that all steps or actions occur, not necessarily in a specific order (though that can be part of the process), but rather just that they are completed, while a template is an established pattern - form letters, resume designs - that you can use over and over to produce the same result.

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Bored to Tears at Work - Help!

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It also looks bad on one’s resume. And as I was working, job hunting and/or temping, I had to find other sources of happiness. Everything has a price - whether it’s time, energy, money, or effort. I knew I didn’t want to job hunt for more than 6-9 months if I didn’t have to. I’m not sure how your job hunting experience was.