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Furthering Your Education on a Budget

Success

If you’re reading SUCCESS magazine and listening to our podcasts , you probably already fall into the category of lifelong learner, and you already take classes on topics that interest you. For us, that might be finding a sommelier class, taking a pasta-making class with friends or hands on learning about digital currency. Have a plan.

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Finding a Voice in the Future of Work

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To dig up stories, you relied on a few things: Walking six blocks to check the daily police blotter, talking up strangers to learn about safety issues on campus, or researching national stories and analyzing how they might impact the local community. Then again when I joined the student-run magazine, Vox. To me, it’s inclusion.

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A True Partnership: Olympia Dukakis and Bonnie Low-Kramen

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By Bonnie Low-Kramen for Executive Support Magazine | August 2021. And I learned. Wow, did I learn about show business, about being a working woman, about making hard choices, and about life. Neither of us dared to think our work together would last for 25 years which leads me to one of the first lessons I learned.

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Highlights from a Talk With the CEO of SHRM: What HR Really Thinks About EAs

Bonnie Low Kramen

By Bonnie Low-Kramen for the February, 2021 issue of Executive Support Magazine. On the other hand, I hear from assistants that job descriptions are obsolete, salary bands are slow to move, and job titles do not reflect the level of responsibility for the role. Taylor Jr. & & COS Emily M. It was time for a 1:1 talk with HR.

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“EAs Need Better Press.” Agreed. Solving the EA PR Problem Once and For All

Bonnie Low Kramen

I learned that these dismissive demeanors and disrespectful behaviors had to do with the disparate perceptions about what assistants actually do. Do the research on your salary. Given a choice, advocate for salary versus hourly compensation. To change perception, we need the strong support of others outside the profession.

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Tori Dunlap, Founder of Her First 100K is on a Mission to Close the Gender Pay Gap

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I was on the receiving end of sexist, negative comments from male supervisors, and I learned that the majority of women earn 82 cents for every dollar earned by their male counterparts. People are often shocked to learn I don’t have a debit card. I watched my female friends accept jobs that paid far less than they were worth.

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16 Timeless Truths of Financial Freedom

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My new career was straight commission—zero salary. It’s the lessons I’ve learned throughout my journey that have made that reality possible—and can help make financial freedom a reality for you, too. Don’t Budget. This article appears in the January/February 2020 issue of SUCCESS magazine and has been updated.