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The Intimidation Factor: How Fear Influences Women’s Wage Negotiations

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A survey conducted by ResumeBuilder of full-time workers found that 49% of men negotiated their compensation in the last two years compared to 32% of women. Women can fight for themselves in the salary negotiation process by doing their research and being confident in their experience and abilities.

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Taking Career Advice from TikTok? Experts Suggest Keeping These 4 Things In Mind

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Looking for tips on updating your resume or how to react when a colleague takes credit for your idea in a meeting? In the past, most people would ask a mentor or career coach for advice. With fewer employees going into the office, there are less opportunities to seek out advice from a coworker or mentor.

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6 Simple Steps To Help You Write The Best Cover Letters Using AI

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Aside from AI, other popular productivity tools like Grammarly have created cover letter-specific tools that produce an AI generated cover letter based on your resume, and the job title and job description from the position that you are applying to. 18% of U.S. It does this based on three easy steps.

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Answering Reader Mail: Confidential Job Hunts, Raises, Promotions & Better Projects

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It’s such a shame that there aren’t more managers who are good mentors that help each individual grow and learn more in their roles. You also have more negotiating leverage for a better salary and projects. I can not stress volunteering enough to spruce up your resume for when are you ready to leave your current company.

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Answering Reader Mail: Making A Splash Without Changing Everything

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Align yourself also means to seek out the ones who have been around the longest and get their advice, have them informally mentor you, and make sure you figure out who your boss’ stakeholders are. This will help in updating your resume, negotiating a raise, and how you want your career to unfold.

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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

Your termination is more “in the past” than being the focal point of your resume because your first job description will be the temping stuff. All this time I wanted to be recognized for my great resume and hard work and when I got offered a job on the spot, I retreated instead of saying yes right away.

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Bored to Tears at Work - Help!

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It also looks bad on one’s resume. I also thought about money, salary negotiation, and how I was spending my time. Volunteer and mentor online by being an email pen pal. And I had to debate with myself if it was worth staying in a job that was pretty great, but not amazing. I’m not sure how your job hunting experience was.