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

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If you’re feeling stressed about your own job security or unmotivated as you search for a job during the holidays in today’s highly competitive job market, this probably isn’t what you want to hear. It’s vital that you continue your job search during the holidays. They’ll be looking to spend their capital on hiring and training.

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Which tasks should assistants manage?

Practically Perfect PA

Holiday and sickness records. If the executive runs a department the assistant should manage all of their holiday and sickness records with the authority to sign off standard holiday requests and short term sickness leave. Administrative systems.

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Maximising your productivity and dealing with interruptions

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Implement an Executive Voicemail system. It detailed all of the department’s procedures including a large section on administration, such as holiday requests and ordering meeting rooms. The office equipment that you use the most should be near by so that you are not spending large amounts of your time walking around the office.

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Little Green Footsteps

Eco-Office Gals

Think about your own organization and how many paper based systems you still. use; holiday forms, purchase order sign-off, invoice sign off, expenses, just to name a few. A purist may say that there is still a green cost to running the IT equipment and my argument would be – fine – I agree.

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Minimising Interruptions

Practically Perfect PA

Implement an Executive Voicemail system. It detailed all of the department’s procedures including a large section on administration, such as holiday requests and ordering meeting rooms. The office equipment that you use the most should be near by so that you are not spending large amounts of your time walking around the office.

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Small Business World News Round-up - 2009/11/10

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Business Telephone Systems & Phone Lines For Your Business techdepot.co.uk OnlineOffice: Overview Get the Flash Player to see this player. Copyright © 1994-2010 Winweb® · All rights reserved. External Links External Links SynergyOne.co.uk For all your IT supply needs in your home and in your office. — ST.

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Would You Risk Your Life to Save a Stranger?

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Yet heroes like Meis undeniably walk among us every day, unnoticed and unheralded by special holidays, medals or sometimes even a nod from our fellow humans. Aikins explained, “Their stress hormones are lower and the peptides that down-regulate that stress are higher,” so the hormonal system “really hits overdrive.”

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