On The Job
SEPTEMBER 16, 2019
One option that could prove beneficial while you're trying to get your career back on the right road is temping. The American Staffing Association reports that staffing companies in this country hire 17 million temp and contract workers every year. Here are some other things to consider about temp jobs: You can learn new skills.
Tips From T. Marie
SEPTEMBER 15, 2015
Luckily, the temps here in Maine this week look like it should make it easy to pretend the first signs of leaves turning aren’t showing up on Autumn Lane. I don’t know about you, but I’m having a hard time saying good-bye to summer. I took my own advice and took plenty of time off to enjoy the season.
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The Small Business Blog
FEBRUARY 7, 2010
Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it!
Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant
AUGUST 16, 2010
First and foremost, your job as an EA is to master working with many different people in a customer service role, and the admin work is actually secondary. I mention how I worked for all my CEOs because I was recruited away as a temp. My goal as temp was to be asked back as a temp repeatedly - that’s it.
Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant
JUNE 21, 2012
I started out as a temp and figured I’d pay my dues, network, and hop to another company or department. You have a customer service attitude with the sophistication, grace, and diplomacy of royalty. I bantered around various ideas from being a photographer, teacher, newscaster, or print journalist.
Service Untitled
JANUARY 23, 2012
Service Untitled: So tell me about your role and what you do at Zappos. Rob: I am the director of the Zappos Customer Loyalty Team. And I started in the company as a temp worker in 2004. How to establish a customer service culture Customers frequently offer feedback; sometimes it is solicited, and sometimes.
The Small Business Blog
AUGUST 16, 2007
Virtual workers can be from a “Temp-Agency&# or a from contracting firms. Both of these relationships are good for your cost-planning because they are not fixed, permanent costs, they are variable cost, meaning, when the project is finished the contract for your temp-workers, contractors finishes too.
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