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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

BMT Office Administration

Cover letter. Job offer letter. Reference and background check results. With help from legal, IT, and other departments, they create a written-out document retention policy. This policy clarifies what needs to be saved, where, and for how long. Recruiting and screening documents. Educational transcript.

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

BMT Office Administration

For instance, if your employment records contain all the disciplinary actions and policy violations committed by the offending employee, you’ll have a better chance of defending your decision to terminate an employee in court. While it’s clear that you need to keep a separate file for each employee, which documents should you include in it?

Filing 52
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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Send your cover letter and resume to a specific person, their general email address, or fill out their online form/application. And since I was there, I dropped off my resume and cover letter. Anywhere you are working, when people compliment you and enjoy working with you, you should ask for a reference.

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Fear of Success | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

I graduated and moved to New York, where I landed my first job on the strength of one cover letter. Just a cover letter. It’s in our comment policies. No connections, no nepotism. My copywriting success comes from a lot of failing and trying and failing again. I am single. No one supports me. He’s afraid.

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

Men With Pens

May 24, 2010 at 8:32 am James, The next time you put out a call for job openings, you’ll be able to refer to this post. That way it’d be easier to filter out all the cover letters containing such qualities… Jack Busch´s last blog. Thx, Giulietta the Muse Giulietta Nardone´s last blog. Read everything.

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