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The Predictions for Small Business Saturday 2023 Are In—Here’s How to Optimize Them for Your Business

Success

Consider looking to contractors, temps or other nontraditional employees to ensure you can optimize the day’s profit potential. For new members and existing members, everyone was emailed a $20 wash to gift as they liked. People can still detect the soul in an email. Meanwhile, tempo affects people’s perception of time.

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How Assistants Manage Their Workload (and all the extras, like training!)

Office Dynamics

Are you one of the many assistants who claims you can’t attend a training course or even get away for a free webinar because you’re just too busy? Many of the assistants check emails at break and handle as many work assignments as they can. We put in long days, from 8:00 a.m. – and I keep them busy the entire day.

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8 reasons why contract employment is popular

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Professionals are finding that even if there aren’t many permanent jobs available in their field, there are opportunities for temp, contract work, or for project-based roles. If you don’t, then the contract will run its course in a few months anyway – and leaving is drama-free. Start your search here with our open contracting jobs.

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Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

Office Dynamics

You may think this would be a biased conversation about our curriculum-based designation courses but it was far from that! It’s not so much about receiving a ‘certification’ as it is about what will be covered in a class or online course. Is it possible to get a list of attendee email addresses to network after the webinar?

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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. Home About Me Advertise Outsourcing - Good or Bad? Everyone could use a little more green in their wallets.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Tell us your story on how you went from temping in LA to being the EA of high-profile CEOs. 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. So I left that temp gig and went to work for the CEO.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AKA – Kiyomi’s 21-Step Job Hunt Strategy 1) Contact everyone you know in a personalized, positive, fun email When I first graduated college and whenever I am seeking new opportunities, I will literally email everyone I know. The point of the email is to check in with that person - ask how they are and ASK SPECIFIC QUESTIONS.