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How to Stay Motivated While Job Hunting During the Holidays This Year

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In a socially distanced world, virtual interviews have largely replaced in-person ones, and email has become even more important during the initial hiring stage. How might your words be interpreted via email? And if another wave of layoffs is indeed on the way, the job market will become even more competitive.

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From Layoff To Liftoff: 5 Steps To Rebuild Your Career

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Prioritize saving your contacts, and forward any emails that would help your resume and, if applicable, your portfolio. If possible, before your last day on the job, make sure to forward any important information that you think would be of use to you in future endeavors.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Hello New & Returning Readers, TheLadders.com is currently doing a project where they are looking for people to provide tips to new college grads about to enter the working world. I had always meant to do a post on job searching and so I figured, why not now? And when I say everyone, I mean EVERYONE. The list can go on.

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Job Hunting Tips & Telling Your Boss

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Here are 10 things to consider as you conduct your job hunt. To conduct a job hunt confidentially, only tell those people you MUST (the recruiters you are interviewing with, etc). Plan ahead how you will juggle job hunting and your current schedule. What's the correct approach? A Hi Allie, Great question!

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How to Leave Your Job and Start Your Career

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Stop—stop typing that email, stop crunching numbers, stop filing documents—and think about what you’re doing. Does your job match what you’d dreamed your career would be? Step back and take a look at the work you’re doing in your current job. Have you been contemplating a new job or complete career switch for a while now?

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The Realities of Job Hunting As A High Level Executive Assistant

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Here are some tips as your career progresses that will affect how you job hunt. The lower-level admin you are the more jobs there are. Those jobs support the President, CEO, CTO, CFO, and Chairman. Your job hunt will take a lot longer. Job hunt with focus. Make a decision.

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10 Tips for Setting Up Your Social Media & Internet Presence Safely to Improve Your Job Search & to Protect Yourself

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Hello New & Returning Readers, About 2 years ago I wrote an in-depth post about how I job hunt. Here are my 10 tips on setting yourself up for a great job search, whether for the very first time or not. Here are my 10 tips on setting yourself up for a great job search, whether for the very first time or not.