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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

“In broad terms, millennials get it, get that education is key to a better life and that education doesn’t necessarily stop when you get your first piece of paper, your first degree—you keep going,” says Liz Weston, a nationally syndicated personal-finance columnist. “I They’re not waiting for an employer to take care of them.”.

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2022: My “Year” in Review

Productivityist

February was also a month where I started taking finances more seriously than I had in ages. After years of meeting online, several of us who mastermind together met up in Tempe, Arizona to retreat together. I cancelled The BIG Ready in February 2022 after running it for two years in two very different ways. It’s paying off, too.

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Is the Staffing Industry Facing a Kodak Moment?

Small Business Labs

The data overwhelmingly shows the use of non-W2 labor is growing at a much greater pace than overall employment or the growth in temp labor. This is clearly an attempt at spin by Dameris. As far as sophisticated corporations refusing to use non-W2 labor, we know from both our research and personal experience this simply isn't true. 

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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. Whenever you interview for a job, there’s at least 2-3 interviews if not more. You have to wear a different outfit each time. You will spend a lot on gas just driving around town or on business travel.

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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2011

Small Business Labs

  Alternative Financing:  While the improving economy is leading to increased small business access to financing from banks and other traditional sources, capital will still be tight in 2011.    Online micro-lending in particular will see a substantial increase in 2011.    Technology. . 

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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

You want to establish relationships outside of the finance world because fitting into a different culture of the media/arts is important. Finance can be perceived as very stuffy, black and white, and sequential and non-chaotic. Since you have already worked at a well known company, you are half way there.