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Lawsuits, Lost Expertise And Bad Morale: The Steep Risks Of Ignoring Older Employees

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Age discrimination occurs when a manager or boss treats an applicant or employee less favorably due to their age, which applies to younger people with less experience as well as older people who are close to retirement age. They worry that their company may have no strategy or practice for any sort of planned retirement — because most don’t.

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Hot Jobs and Job Ruts

On The Job

The chapter now offers retired social workers everything from computer skills updates, interviewing and personal marketing advice, as well as ongoing training on various aspects of working with older adults. Interviews with almost 2,000 employees at U.S.

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Answering Reader Mail: The Other Assistant Isn't As Qualified - Should I Express My Interest?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Any time you interview where this situation occurs you are allowed to ask very politely. 4) The previous assistant does not want to lose any important benefits/tenure/seniority at the previous company whether they be retirement savings, vacation accrual rate, or misc perks they would lose. Also keep in mind, not all jobs work out.

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I'm back!!

Laughing all the Way to Work

I was calling it early retirement for lack of a better term. I gave them lots of notice and was going to 'semi-retire' in three months. Fast forward to today and I went for the interview and accepted the job and left my other job sooner than expected. What a relief it was when I handed in my resignation.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I did very well on my interviews and it's down to me and one other EA who already has a full time job. You wrote, “I did very well on my interviews and it's down to me and one other EA who already has a full time job.” I recently found myself out of work and started my search. This can be taken in one of two ways.

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The Admin’s Impact on Employee Morale & Culture Whitepaper

Admin Awards

Moderated by: Cynthia Young, Retired Executive & Culture Builder – UT Southwestern, Ambit Energy & Southwest Airlines. – Nancy Nordberg, Retired Executive Assistant to the CEO, Maxim Integrated. Then, keep personal feelings out of hard conversations by negotiating from the point of the data.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Book Review: The Retail Doctor's.

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Expressive : Spontaneous, good negotiator,and learns by doing. The woman was retired, on a fixed income and now had a new puppy. Analytical : Introverted, project driven, and makes decisions based on facts. An example of this “Thinker&# would be Dr. Spock from Star Trek.