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The 4 Most Difficult Interview Questions

Professional Assistant Blog

What kind of salary are you looking for? Another suggestion is to find out the salary range that was posted for this job and use that. If you get a question that doesnt relate to the job that youre applying for, this type of question is related to how well you work under pressure. Try to give a range, never give a fixed figure.

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How Big Corporations Are Cutting Their Energy Usage

Eco-Office Gals

In 2008, they created a program that is called the Climate Corps. Plus, being that the businesses involved are required to cover the interns’ salaries (traditionally, fellowships do have money involved) and travel expenses, as the EDF is showing them how to save their resources, they are not losing any of their own in the process.

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How to Lose a Customer and a Few More!

Professional Assistant Blog

By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, September 09, 2008 Filed Under: Client Service D o you find that people are passing calls and e-mails from person to person, getting the client more and more frustrated? Keep in mind that they are the ones that are paying your salary. Money, of course, is important, but what about the customer?

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4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues

Professional Assistant Blog

Try following these 4 simple steps and you will find that your work performance will increase and hopefully, so will your salary! Remember that you are there to do your job because you have the skills and qualities that your manager hired you for. Don’t let your work performance suffer.

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Critical Considerations When Jumping to a Small Employer

On The Job

For one reason, you may not like doing without all the corporate-world goodies (including the salary), and for another, a small employer may not want you. A recent survey by Network Solutions and the University of Maryland found that of 1,000 small businesses surveyed, 69 percent made a profit in 2008. Not want you?

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Oh, Mexico: A Burned-Out CEO Turns a Ranch into a Retreat

Success

I thought this was going to be another year of travel for me,” Harper says about her sojourn in Mexico. “I I was going to be there for two weeks and plan my travel. In September 2008 Harper took a two-week hiking trip— and completely unplugged. “I We were on the front page of the New York Times and the travel sections.”

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I would love to take some courses but being out in the west it is hard because most of them are located in Toronto and travel is a hard one to sell for my position. However now with the economic times I think travel will be a no go for some time yet. Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy?