Small Business Labs

JUNE 10, 2010

When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it. If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it.   From the article: "The jobs that are coming back are part-time and temporary.

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Melissa Peoples

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Bear in mind, I had been recruited or referred into my past couple of roles, so my resume hadn't been top of mind for a while. After giving notice, and thinking now that it wasn't perhaps the best time for clarity or objectivity, I dusted off my resume, added my now former role, and began applying to likely-sounding prospects.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

We hired a temp to do some simple clerical work for us, but realized once she left, that the work was inadequate and there were spelling mistakes along with the mail merge list not being correct, that we supplied to her. Heres an example of what happened with me.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 16, 2010

I mention how I worked for all my CEOs because I was recruited away as a temp. I wasn’t there to socialize or go out of my way to point out I was a temp to try to get a full-time job. My goal as temp was to be asked back as a temp repeatedly - that’s it. I wanted to do my job well for whatever it was they hired me to do.

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The Small Business Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2010

Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. David Said on February 8th, 2010 at 9:14 pm In Australia, companies definitely prefer to hire people they know and a lot of have financial incentives in place where if employees refer another employee, they get a bonus.

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Small Business Labs

JUNE 3, 2010

When we reference organizations that have provided us funding in the last year we will note it.   The CNN article focuses on the growing use of temps.  If we mention a product or service that we received for free or other considerations, we will note it. . 

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 13, 2011

As you are job hunting, think hard about if you want to temp, freelance, do contract work, temp-to-hire, or direct hire roles only and under which circumstance. Job hunt with focus. You will find yourself having to juggle an interview schedule and working to continue networking or to not get bored.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 20, 2015

Create an office bible In case you get sick, go on vacation, or get hit by a bus, it’s always good to have an office bible so your temp or co-worker can have info at their fingertips when needed. I keep notes from my very first day on the job and find myself referring to certain passages every now and then.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

3) Work with temping and recruiting agencies – all of them When you are looking for a job, contact every temp and recruiting agency in town. 6) Have a list of references I assume you’ve interned, had a part time job, a full time job, or volunteered at some point in your life. You can’t look for the perfect job for 5 years.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MARCH 22, 2013

1) Try to find someone who can be your reference from that job, but it doesn’t have to be from that company. Regardless, get a letter in writing on letterhead and their contact info for phone references from whomever. 4) Start temping immediately. However, in this case, it would have been fine. Here are some tips.

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Service Untitled

JANUARY 23, 2012

And I started in the company as a temp worker in 2004. They get introductions from a lot of the different leaders in the company so they meet the people that can be good contacts and points of reference for them around the organization, and then they also get a better understanding of what each department really does on a daily basis.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 10, 2009

Recently, a temp worker at my job gave me another Google tip. Finally, I asked her how she knew the answers and what was she doing to get the information? It was then she introduced me to Google. I have loved it ever since and that is when my list of handy Favourites was born. Google has an information line ( 1 800 466 4411 ).

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

And that’s where a virtual administrative assistant can step in to make all the difference. If you find some are outdated please let me know so I can remove them from this list. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 16, 2012

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. How can you make yourself easily found? Don't be an assistant to a Director or Manager if at all possible.

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Who's the Real Boss?

AUGUST 31, 2020

The same theory applies when you’re temping too, or even contracting as a minute taker – find someone on that team that you can check things with so that you’re always showing yourself up as the most knowledgeable and professional minute taker going around.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

Tell us your story on how you went from temping in LA to being the EA of high-profile CEOs. I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. So I left that temp gig and went to work for the CEO.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 8, 2016

Other jobs, because they were temp to full time, I didn’t even have the benefits of paid vacation time or paid sick days for almost a year. It always perplexes me when small companies do not hire a temp or have in mind another staff person to fill in for the admin or EA to go on a vacation or call in sick.

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Virtual Moxie

JANUARY 24, 2011

Temp three days per week so that you have some steady income, and work in your VA practice two full days per week In this way, you have income, and you have specific, defined time to work on building your practice. Lastly -- and the one that may make the most sense, depending on how much income you need: 5. Quit your job.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 16, 2007

Virtual workers can be from a “Temp-Agency&# or a from contracting firms. Both of these relationships are good for your cost-planning because they are not fixed, permanent costs, they are variable cost, meaning, when the project is finished the contract for your temp-workers, contractors finishes too.

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