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5 Tips to Help You Make a Winning First Impression

Eat Your Career

Whether you’re attending a networking event, heading into a job interview or meeting your new boss for the first time, the initial meeting can be one of the most important interactions you’ll ever have. You can always fall back on universally relatable topics like the weather, city traffic, local sports teams, and upcoming holidays.

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Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgate, 2010 Stevie.

Laughing all the Way to Work

© Copyright Patricia Robb 2010 12 July, 2010 Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgate, 2010 Stevie® Award winner Lynn Holgate, an Executive Assistant at High Performance Technologies, Inc. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat.

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Answering Reader Mail: 7 Tips on Attire, Scheduling & Etiquette

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I think along with this question I would also like to know if you have etiquette tips about emailing with the other EA’s on the client side of things. I think along with this question I would also like to know if you have etiquette tips about emailing with the other EA’s on the client side of things.

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Interview with Rob Siefker of Zappos – Part 4 of 4

Service Untitled

This is the fourth and final part of my interview with Rob Siefker, the Director of the Customer Loyatly Team at Zappos. You can read part one of the interview here , part two here , and part three here. But yeah, everyone else is in an hourly position so they get you know, holiday pay and overtime pay and things like that.

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Do you like what you do?

Laughing all the Way to Work

INTERVIEW WELL Make it a conversation. You are interviewing them too so ask questions. Take notes during the interview so you don’t forget what you wanted to ask. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. How true that is!

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Warning! Warning! Incoming text message.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Here is some common-sense etiquette: Screen your calls: Subscribe to call display. However, I think our etiquette hasnt caught up with the technology. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. We joke about it, but it is distracting.

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Welcome to Canada, Mr. President.

Laughing all the Way to Work

What is the proper etiquette when addressing or writing to a President? Here is a video link on the proper etiquette to address a President. I finally had a chance to sit down and read your book over the holiday. Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. Holidays Humour "A cheerful heart is good like medicine."