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Outsourcing - Good or Bad?

Professional Assistant Blog

By The Professional Assistant on Friday, September 14, 2007 Filed Under: Organize , Prioritize , Productivity D oes your firm want to save money? Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work? Home About Me Advertise Outsourcing - Good or Bad? Everyone could use a little more green in their wallets.

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Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!)

The Small Business Blog

Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. » « Previous Entries This entry was posted on Monday, February 8th, 2010 at 7:00 am and is filed under Business Checklists. Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!)

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

3) Work with temping and recruiting agencies – all of them When you are looking for a job, contact every temp and recruiting agency in town. 6) Have a list of references I assume you’ve interned, had a part time job, a full time job, or volunteered at some point in your life. Companies get bailed out and can file for bankruptcy.

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The Realities of Job Hunting As A High Level Executive Assistant

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

They will revisit their files and notes and reach out to you as jobs become available. As you are job hunting, think hard about if you want to temp, freelance, do contract work, temp-to-hire, or direct hire roles only and under which circumstance. Your former colleagues will also think of you. Job hunt with focus.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Tell us your story on how you went from temping in LA to being the EA of high-profile CEOs. I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. So I left that temp gig and went to work for the CEO.

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Outsourcing Options For Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

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. Have a nice day!

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