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MAY 15, 2023

This month, the graduating class of 2023 will bid farewell to a rather extraordinary college experience — having endured an unforeseen worldwide pandemic, an unexpected switch to remote learning, skyrocketing inflation and housing costs, not to mention cascades of tech sector layoffs. February of this year saw an unemployment rate of 4.6%

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 21, 2012

And applying for part time work allows you to use the other 20 hours to find a full time job and make the leap when you get an offer. Call your old contacts, do informational interviews, network twice removed. Whenever I look for a job, I send out over 200 individual emails telling people what I've been up to.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

I was interviewed earlier this month and so I pasted it below. When people would ask me in interviews, my first answer was, “No nepotism here!” I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. I think this tip bears no real explanation as by Googling different resume types you’ll get the gist.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 13, 2016

My company has now recently started 'cost savings initiatives'. link] You mention your company is doing a cost savings initiative and you know you are paid more than the other EAs there. And being laid off for cost-savings measures is NOT the same thing as being fired for performance. I wrote about this in an earlier post.

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On The Job

OCTOBER 28, 2009

I recently interviewed an employment law expert, who pointed out there are a lot of myths that employees believe, including the one that they can say what they want at work. While freedom of speech is guaranteed by the First Amendment, what you say around the workplace water cooler can cost you your job. Thanks, Karen.

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