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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

“We have a whole generation of millennials and college grads who have come out of college seeing how their parents were perhaps treated in 2008 and are choosing income security over job security” by freelancing, temping and so forth. It’s more important to be employable than, maybe, to be employed full-time.”.

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Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!)

The Small Business Blog

Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!) by Stefan Töpfer on Feb 08, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Outsourcing - Good or Bad?

Professional Assistant Blog

We hired a temp to do some simple clerical work for us, but realized once she left, that the work was inadequate and there were spelling mistakes along with the mail merge list not being correct, that we supplied to her. Heres an example of what happened with me.

2007 100
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Miss Moneypenny

Laughing all the Way to Work

revised February 2008) The Associated Press reports that her first appearance was in 1962 as the secretary to M, the head of the secret service. Anne Hathaway- as Andy Sachs in “The Devil Wears Prada” - Who hasn’t been snide to a temp? Call me crazy. It won't be the first nor last time. We know her character well.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2011

Small Business Labs

  To see our past lists, click on the year: 2010 , 2009 , 2008.    Freelancers Realize They're Small Business Owners:   The last few years have seen strong growth in the number of contingent workers - freelancers, part-timers, temps and contractors.  GDP increasing 3%-3.5%.    Economic.

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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

  The CNN article focuses on the growing use of temps.    It was also a key factor in our 2008 forecast that the number of small businesses would increase during the recession - a forecast that met with a lot of skepticism but proved correct (OK, I admit to patting ourselves on the back on this one). 

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Will Google ever stop amazing me? Introducing Goog/411

Laughing all the Way to Work

Recently, a temp worker at my job gave me another Google tip. Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? Finally, I asked her how she knew the answers and what was she doing to get the information? It was then she introduced me to Google. I have loved it ever since and that is when my list of handy Favourites was born.

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