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Niké Ojekunle Got Scammed. Now She’s Helping Others Avoid the Same Fate By Advocating for Financial Literacy

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But when a group called the Carter Agency reached out, the offer was a good one. She wanted someone else to take the wheel for a bit, and the talent agency’s website listed Netflix, Amazon and the NFL as “strategic partners.” It’s not an accident that the Carter Agency and other organizations like it primarily scammed women of color.

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The Four Horsemen of the Mandated Return to Office

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Or consider a National Bureau of Economic Research paper about a study at Trip.com, one of the largest travel agencies in the world. That term refers to employees psychologically disengaging from their work, and doing just enough to get by without getting in trouble. Mentoring initiatives . Quiet Quitting.

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The job of looking for a job

Laughing all the Way to Work

1) Do try the temp agencies. 3) Find someone to mentor you. This is another area your mentor can help you. A mentor can help with this as well. 11) Choose some good references and make sure you contact them ahead of time to ask their permission to use their name and to let them know they may be contacted.

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Even More Questions Answered

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Even though I am an EA with over 15 years of experience at the C-level, it seems that all the recruiting agencies I have approached still require an applicant to come in for an appointment to take their basic employment testing, and then only seem to be able to offer lower-level administrative jobs.

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Feelings mixed about recent college hires

On The Job

Achille says she’s “frustrated” with some professors “who are trying to be friends and not mentors” to students, and believes that schools should offer “an MBA of life course” to help students understand that in the workplace “there are boundaries.” Perhaps the newly hired employee should be mentored a bit more by his/her boss.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. The shortest route to fill that gap is to look for temp work thru agencies or TaskRabbit, Craiglist, or volunteer. Because of him, my first CEO EA job led to the next one.