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Riding that Job Wave

Who's the Real Boss?

In addition to this however, you note the different managerial types they’ve encountered throughout these five roles, and how they’ve had to learn to adapt to different personality and operating types, often very quickly and without sufficient time to adapt. Be upfront in your cover letter.

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How to Find a Job Using Social Media

On The Job

It's very expensive to run ads, and there was only a small percentage of candidates who applied who had the relative experience," he says. "We I'm not wading through a bunch of cover letters where someone is describing how they're a 'people person' and ways they can transform our organization.

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

BMT Office Administration

To clear things up, we’ve put together this extensive guide breaking down what you should and shouldn’t include in your employee files — so read on to learn more. A dizzying amount of paperwork goes into hiring a new employee, including background checks, applications, offer letters, job applications, and more.

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Beware of Career Marketing Firms

Job Advice Blog

Next, I Googled the company name–and searched on other search engines as well–to try to learn something about the proposal/agreement signer with the title of managing director. He was asking me to evaluate a proposal he had received from a career marketing firm. My research led me to a résumé-writing service.

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Answering Reader Mail: From Lawyer to Executive Assistant?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Whether based on your cover letter or resume, recruiters only take 6 seconds to see if you are match. Since becoming a lawyer is such a long and expensive road, it’s hard to imagine why anyone would change their mind since it wasn’t an impulse decision in the beginning. 1) Do you have the admin skills to be an EA?

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How to Achieve Your Freelancing Dream – Without Quitting Your Job

Men With Pens

What you should do is set a “Quit Date”, a goal number for a financial survival fund, and scale back on needless expenses immediately (like cable, takeout, sodas, etc…) so you can put that money in the bank. Look what happens: Step 2 – Prepare a freelance portfolio with a simple and tweakable cover letter.

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How NOT to Get the Freelance Job - and What to Do | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

In most part, I had a lot of fun reading through applications and learning more about people. That said, don’t apply for internet jobs when you just came online, have no skills, no experience, but can definitely learn everything as you go along. Be a person who learns from evey experience. Kind of flattering. We have this.

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