November, 2020

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The Surge in New Small Business Applications

Small Business Labs

Applications to get a tax ID as part of starting a business jumped a dramatic 77% in Q3 from the prior quarter.  This was the largest increase ever in business applications - and there's nothing even close. As the U.S. Census chart below shows (click to enlarge), both solopreneur business applications (referred to as "Applications Other than High-Propensity") and High-Propensity Business Applications (those indicating they are planning on hiring employees) significantly increas

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Artificial Intelligence: Will it help or hurt the Assistant Profession?

Practically Perfect PA

Artificial Intelligence: Will it help or hurt the Assistant Profession? I have been very aware of artificial intelligence, as a coming event into my business. In fact, we had a fascinating artificial intelligence client in New York City. And I was just blown away by the [.].

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The Power of Modern Business Etiquette (Webinar)

Eat Your Career

Join us for this month’s free webinar on the topic of “The Power of Business Etiquette.” Webinar Description: Etiquette may sound like an antiquated term, but it’s a concept that still very much applies in our modern business world. Contrary to popular belief, etiquette is not about following some arbitrary set of “rules.” It’s about making the people around you feel comfortable and respected.

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3 Things You Must Know for a Job Interview These Days

On The Job

When interviewing for a job these days, you need to be ready to tweak your responses so that you help an employer see how you'll not only be dependable and valuable once we all return to normalcy -- but also if you need to work remotely. For example, an employer may ask you about how you collaborate with others, how you stay productive or how you juggle multiple demands on your time.

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SME Relationships: Proven Solutions for Seamless Collaboration and Success

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

💢 Do you find yourself stuck in never-ending review cycles? Are you wondering if your Subject Matter Expert actually got that last review request? Are you having trouble trying to decipher impractical or conflicting feedback? 💢 If any of these scenarios sounds familiar, you may benefit from a crash course on managing SME relationships!

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The One of a Kind Assistant Conference Experience

Office Dynamics

A Recap of Our First-Ever Virtual Conference for Administrative Assistants Our first-ever virtual conference for administrative assistants had so many monumental moments and nuggets of information.

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TechCrunch's 5 Startup Trends for the 2020s

Small Business Labs

TechCrunch's 5 startup th eses that will transform the 2020s looks at 5 broad startup themes that will define the next decade.  These are: 1.  Wellness : TechCrunch defines wellness more broadly than most.  They say it encompasses building " humanistic societies with strong social fabrics that enliven, enrich, and build meaning for our lives …" More concrete is their view on the needs of our health system.  Key quote: Then there’s the health system in general.

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Completing your Assistant performance review in uncertain times

Practically Perfect PA

Completing your Assistant performance review in uncertain times It is that time of year again, performance review season. Except the world has completely changed this year. Completing your Assistant performance review in uncertain times is going to be different. Many of you are working from home juggling work and the [.].

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Secrets to Achieving Work/Life Harmony (Webinar)

Eat Your Career

Join us for this month’s free webinar on the topic of “Secrets to Achieving Work/Life Harmony.” Webinar Description: You have a “professional” life and a “personal” life, right? But ultimately, it’s all just life, isn’t it? So, how do you balance it all? How do you make sure one side isn’t getting all the attention while the other side suffers?

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The First Thing to Do After a Job Interview

On The Job

Even though you may have more phone or Zoom interviews during your current job search because of the pandemic, the basics of job searching remain the same: do your homework on an employer so you're prepared for an interview; dress appropriately; ask questions -- and always, always, always send a thank-you note. I cannot tell you how many hiring managers say that they're always impressed by thank-you notes, and how it helps candidates stand out.

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Elevating the Virtual Interviewing Experience

Sharing your authentic self in a virtual interview can be an unwanted challenge. How do you break through the digital barrier when conducting a virtual interview and share your exceptional self? Think in unconventional ways to elevate the virtual interviewing experience.

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How is HR Really Deciding How Much $$$ to Pay You? | Guest Comp Expert Jeremy Spake | Ep 36

Bonnie Low-Krayman

[link]. In this episode, Bonnie continues the conversation with expert Jeremy Spake about the all-important subject of compensation and how HR is really deciding how much money to pay you. They co-wrote a ground-breaking article on this subject that was featured in September, 2020 on the cover of Executive Secretary Magazine (link below.) Listen in as they pull the curtain back on the wage gap, new ways to successfully negotiate compensation, and the global move towards pay equity and pay transp

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5 Personal Finance Tips for Doctors

Small Business CEO

When you have a healthy six- or seven-figure income, it’s easy to feel like you have all of your money challenges figured out. But in many ways, more money means more problems. And if you don’t get the basics right, you will fail. Yes, even as a doctor. Here are some simple yet powerful personal finance tips curated with you in mind: 1. Build an Emergency Fund.

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The Broader Impacts of Prop 22 Passing in a Landslide

Small Business Labs

Proposition 22, a California ballot measure calling for the exemption of rideshare and delivery drivers being classified as employees, passed by what could be called a landslide - 58% for vs. 41% against.  Prop 22 passing is a major win for Uber, Lyft, DoorDash and other app-based rideshare and delivery firms.  It means they won't have to reclassify their drivers as employees, which would have been required had the measure failed.

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Anticipating needs and other mind reading tricks

Practically Perfect PA

Anticipating needs and other mind reading tricks Over the last few years, I have written a lot about creating a successful Executive and EA partnership. It is the key relationship for Assistants and the one part of the role that you have to get right. Without [.].

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Mandatory COVID Vaccination Policy Template

New vaccine mandates and testing policies will affect employers with more than 100 workers. Get Paycor’s free, customizable vaccination policy template to communicate critical details and new requirements to your employees. Get Paycor’s Template today!

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6 Helpful Tips For Recruiters To Write The Best Real Estate Recruiting Letters

Recruit CRM

Call it “old school” if you want, a real estate agent recruiting letter is one of the most effective methods of candidate sourcing. With a well-crafted recruiting letter, you can potentially hire the best of the best agents into your brokerage. If you aren’t getting the results you want or expect, it’s probably because you haven’t gotten the technique of writing recruiting letters down pat.

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What You Need to Know Now About Remote Interviews

On The Job

I've given advice in the past about being a good detective when you're interviewing for a job. This means that you do a little sleuthing on the employer, such as doing online research to check out the financial health of the employer and checking out the employer's location to see if the workplace looks a little shoddy and the employees are downtrodden and stressed.

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Are We Zooming Through Good Manners?

Bonnie Low-Krayman

By Bonnie Low-Kramen | November, 2020 | Published in Career Success Magazine, S. Africa. In my book, “ Be the Ultimate Assistant ,” I devote a chapter to good manners where I make the case that “Good Manners Matter.” In a workplace that has transformed in just a few months, do good manners, common courtesy, and civility still matter? The answer is yes.

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CNC Wire EDM Manufacturing: Do You Stand to Gain from Making a Shift?

Small Business CEO

A shift in the manufacturing process can be quite expensive, but if it’s the right step, then the pros outweigh the cons of making such an investment. The question is, how do you know whether that is indeed the case? Staying specific with just CNC Wire EDM Manufacturing for this post, let’s go through its multiple applications and advantages over its alternatives first.

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Is Training the Right Solution?

Speaker: Tim Buteyn

Let's set the scene: you’ve identified a critical performance gap in your organization and need to close that gap. A colleague suggests training, but you suspect there’s something going on that training can’t address. How can you determine if training is the right solution before you commit your budget and resources to a new training program? In this webinar, you will learn how to determine if training is the right solution using the Behavior Engineering Model.

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Top Gifts You Can Give Your Remote Team for the Holidays

Bonnie Low Kramen

By Ruby Swift & Bonnie Low-Kramen | November 30, 2020. In one of our previous posts on ‘What to Do About Virtual Workplace Bullying’ , we mentioned how the massive shift to remote working did little in eliminating the problems professionals used to face in an office setting. In some cases, issues such as workplace bullying, lack of productivity and poor motivation have been exacerbated by the ongoing global health crisis.

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Where do Assistants draw the line? Setting boundaries for Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

Where do you draw the line? Setting boundaries for Assistants Let's start with a question. Would you say that you are good at setting boundaries? Here is an even more important question - are you good at setting boundaries, and are you good at sticking to them? Assistants need to [.].

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8 Business Development Strategies For New Recruitment Agencies

Recruit CRM

One of the toughest challenges when it comes to setting up a successful recruitment agency is to understand how business development works. Once you have a good grasp over it, you can make the best use of your time and meet all your monthly targets proficiently. While most of the recruitment agency founders understand that recruiting is not all about sourcing the right candidates, clients and filling roles but also about business development which is extremely crucial for success, rookies might

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3 Keys for a Great Recommendation

On The Job

When searching for a new job, we often just focus on what we will say to employers about our skills and experience. We practice answers to questions such as "What are your greatest strengths and weaknesses?" Employers understand that you've practiced these responses, and expect you to offer reasoned answers. They won't really learn anything earth-shattering from these responses, so they may look elsewhere for real insights into your talents and abilities.

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Revitalizing Dry Content: A Lesson in Engagement

Speaker: Tim Buteyn, President of ThinkingKap Learning Solutions

We’ve all been there. You’ve been given a pile of dry content and asked to create a compelling eLearning course. You’re determined to create something more engaging than the same old course that learners quickly click through, but how do you take this “boring” content and create something relevant and engaging? Many instructional designers will say, “Boring in means boring out.

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3 Services to Contract for Your Business

Jen Lawrence

One of the biggest mistakes a business owner can make is believing they can do it all. While entrepreneurs can (and often do) wear a lot of hats, there are great risks in believing and attempting to run your business by yourself. Sure, you could do research on all the tax codes and piece together something that sounds like a good contract. You could build automations through multiple apps and grind yourself into the ground executing all your day-to-day tasks and business development.

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Putting Interest To Work for You Rather Than Against You

Small Business CEO

Many people are paying hundreds or thousands of dollars more than their original loan amounts because of interest. Unfortunately, many of those people accept interest as the cost of borrowing and using another person’s money. If all of those borrowers understood how interest works, they could be making money rather than paying more and more to lenders.

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How To Remove Toxic People From Your Life

Brilliantly Better

If a person is really toxic for you, just leave. Get up, get your stuff (if you have any) and leave. That’s it. If, after careful analysis, after weeks, months, or years of attempts to make things right, to balance out the exchange, nothing happened, then walk away. Slowly, no drama, no arguing, no rationalization, Read more. The post How To Remove Toxic People From Your Life appeared first on Dragos Roua.

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How automation can help Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

How automation can help Assistants When you’re an Assistant and wearing lots of hats, juggling different tasks, clients and struggling with an overflowing to-do list it’s easy to get overwhelmed. Being organised is key, and using technology makes it much easier to keep on top of things. If you’re spending [.].

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Brain Fog HQ: Memory Enhancement Techniques for Professional Development

Speaker: Chester Santos – Author, International Keynote Speaker, Executive Coach, Corporate Trainer, Memory Expert, U.S. Memory Champion

In October, scientists discovered that 75% of patients who experienced brain fog had a lower quality of life at work than those who did not. At best, brain fog makes you slower and less efficient. At worst, your performance and cognitive functions are impaired, resulting in memory, management, and task completion problems. In this entertaining and interactive presentation, Chester Santos, "The International Man of Memory," will assist you in developing life-changing skills that will greatly enha