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7 Unexpected Ways Your Finances Matter When Job Hunting And Working

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Sometimes companies don’t validate for parking especially if you are doing testing at a temp agency and are there for a few hours. Thank you cards, buying people coffee when you network or need advice, thank you gifts, and postage all add up. You will spend a lot on gas just driving around town or on business travel.

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More Canadians Becoming Freelancers

Small Business Labs

  From the article: "The jobs that are coming back are part-time and temporary. The latest data show that there is an ongoing loss of full-time and permanent jobs. Web/Tech women work/life balance

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Answering Reader Mail: Transitioning to a Hollywood EA

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Google for the UTA list and sign up for all email lists and job boards for the entertainment industry, network with people you know, send your resume and cover letter snail mail to every company you want to work at to the attn of the recruiting department, and establish an online presence so headhunters find you via LinkedIn and job sites.

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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

  The CNN article focuses on the growing use of temps.  The professionals often have larger networks and more resources, and unlike their counterparts, the employees, they command respect and compensation equal to their contribution rather than their title. Web/Tech women work/life balance

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Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!)

The Small Business Blog

Build your own network! Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. E-Mail me or follow me. Community for small business outsourcing and cost control. Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Concentrate on your business, not your office. What is Small Business Infrastructure?

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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. I actively grow my LinkedIn network every week, if not every day. When I hear about a company that interests me for any reason, I look for people who work there to add to my network.

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Outsourcing Options For Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Build your own network! 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.

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