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Even More Questions Answered

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Sign up with the major job hunting sites with your resume and profile, join social network sites geared towards work, and meet with every temp agency in town just to be safe. In another answer, I reference 10,000 hours. Be the bigger person and don't gossip! How can you make yourself easily found?

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Answering Reader Mail: Being Terminated (Social Etiquette Part 2)

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I’m sure you’ve realized while it’s common to have a lot of office politics, it is not fun to work in a gossip-filled environment. I know you know this lesson already, so for new/young folks: a good rule of thumb is to not gossip to begin with and just be a nice person to everyone because it’s the right thing to do.

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2 Big Myths About Work You Need to Ditch

On The Job

Although I'm not in the corporate workplace anymore, it was common for many companies to have 'volunteered overtime' and employees felt helpless to say anything for risk of losing their job. And networking and social chit chat is always great- just keep it to a min and don't become the office gossip queen!

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