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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

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A quick look at diversity in the workplace Between 1970 and 1997, after such screens had become embraced for blind auditions, the odds that a woman would advance beyond “certain preliminary rounds” of a tryout increased by 50%, according to a 2000 study published in the American Economic Review. universities revealed their hidden biases.

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The Art of Minute Taking

Laughing all the Way to Work

If the Chair says this is not for the minutes you need to take your hands off the keyboard so the meeting participants know it is not being recorded. For example if they are discussing staff or executive salaries they will ask staff to leave. The Chair will need to review and approve them before they are finalized and sent out.

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Posted by Patricia Robb at 2:58 PM Labels: Administrative Assistant , evaluation , performance appraisal , performance review , professional assistant , raise Reactions: 4comments: Maura said. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh. Maybe the performance appraisal wont be so bad after all. So, do I get my raise yet?

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Is Your Education Useless? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

Besides, as I was told when I was looking at the dismal entry-level salaries being offered when I graduated, and my Dad was wondering aloud why he had paid $$$ for a degree that wouldn’t get me much more than minimum wage (I wanted to go into book publishing, go figure), I shared the quote I got from the university’s job office.

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