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Riding that Job Wave

Who's the Real Boss?

Being heavily involved in recruitment myself, I witness this alwayas as the first criteria that the hiring manager will check against. They’ve worked with the same manager throughout that time, and obviously had a good working relationship with them. But let me flip this around for you and present another perspective.

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

BMT Office Administration

If so, then you’ll definitely want to have the proper documents on-hand to defend your managers. These types of files include: Cover letters Resumes Employment applications References Interview notes Remember not to include any pre-hire documents that must be kept confidential, such as an employee’s I-9 form.

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

For most administrative professionals, the majority of our roles contain functions that recur, such as calendar management, expense reporting and travel arrangements. Bracket your recurring functions - I came up with this idea on my own, after running it by my very intelligent adult son and my engineer, linear-brained husband.

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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

I currently work as a lawyer and undertake every day many of the types of responsibilities that make up an executive assistant role, such as administration, communication, project management and so on, usually in a very demanding and high pressure context, and before this I worked in various communications/PR roles. 2) How manageable are you?

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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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Answering Reader Mail

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Believe it or not, while some EAs do hold tremendous power, because travel is a very expensive and uncomfortable aspect of business, many executives or companies are very specific on what is or isn't allowed and which airlines they will or won't fly. Any suggestions? Timing is everything. 5) Don't just seek out EAs.

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