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Tech Jobs Moving to the Midwest

Small Business Labs

The New York Times article  Hot Spot for Tech Outsourcing: The United States looks at the outsourcing of software development tasks to lower cost U.S. cities are more expensive than outsourcing overseas, rising salaries and costs overseas is making outsourcing there less of a bargain.  Software development is often complex.

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Are Professional Certifications Worth It?

Eat Your Career

Recommended Resource: Straight Talk About Salaries (Recorded Webinar). First, MS Office is a very heavily used software suite and people in the administrative field are deeply reliant on it in many organizations. For example, project managers have the PMP certification and Human Resources have SHRM certifications.

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Are assistants overqualified?

Practically Perfect PA

It has been really interesting reading all of the different job descriptions, the skills that are required and the salaries attached to different levels of the role. I have just spent the last hour looking through jobs that are currently available to assistants. The first thing I noticed is that most of the positions are fairly similar.

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Are You Covering All Expense Bases?

Step It Up VA Coaching

Any money you spend to run or grow your business must be paid for somehow, and not necessarily out of your own salary. Office supplies, equipment, and software: Office supplies, such as envelopes, postage, pens, paper, computers and printers are obvious expenses of doing business.

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Write The Best Job Descriptions In 7 Easy Steps | Free Templates

Recruit CRM

Here are three core pointers of a good job description: Explains the reality of the role Showcases the organisation's culture, and A bit of marketing for the company In short, a job description is used for a variety of reasons— starting from the most obvious, which is recruiting, determining salary ranges, creating job goals, job titles and more.

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Announcement: The Shrink for Entrepreneurs is hiring

The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

To understand, optimize, manage and grow sophisticated customer acquisition funnels. How to plan, design and develop cutting edge iOS and web-app software (*cough* can’t say more right now). If you can’t self-manage and keep yourself on track, do not apply. Logistics and organization of a globally deployed team.

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Reducing Overheads Can Save A Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Benefits of Online Software for Small Business. Between open source software, relatively free telephony (Skype, Rebtel), abundant Wi-Fi hotspots, a virtual office has never been more possible, nor has outsourcing your workforce. On-Demand Small Business Infrastructureâ„¢ allows you to run your business online.

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