Building confidence (and competence) in new employees is a skill every manager and business owner must strive for. Not simply because it is the kind thing to do, but, because it will affect your bottom line in every way. Confident employees want to come to work, they are less likely
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With paying jobs so hard to get in this weak market, a lot of college graduates would gladly settle for a nonpaying internship. But even then, they are competing with laid-off employees with far more experience.
So growing numbers of new graduates — or, more often, their
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NO one likes a power grabber, but there’s nothing inherently obnoxious about building and applying authority to help your company or organization achieve its goals.
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Executive assistants and secretaries can wield much power, if not to the extremes shown in the film “9 to 5.”
Good employees with good ideas
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Your first job out of college may be more important then you know. With the onslaught of outsourcing, and not just the easy stuff anymore, college graduates need to be very strategic, and interview your potential employer as much as they interview you.
Here are a couple , off the beaten
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Tips for more effective personal time management doesn’t have to mean working harder, just smarter. Time management involves improving productivity by learning from mistakes.
Learned Lesson 1. Start each day with a plan. Choose your clothing the evening before; make out a schedule or to-do list for your day. Even if
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Passion is the one thing that we all have for something. If it wasn’t for passion, we wouldn’t have a reason to live, and life would be kind of boring. Why do we root so hard for a sports team, or try so hard to find cures for diseases? Why
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One of the biggest things that employers are doing these days is hiring from within. Basically they are taking job openings that they have, and offering them to employees from within the company. Most companies refer to them as job postings, and they allow people who have the right experience
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Reporting from Sacramento —
Stung by criticism, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger blasted his administration’s Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board, plagued by a massive backlog in handling appeals of jobless Californians denied unemployment compensation.
The board has blamed the governor’s policies for at least part of an 82,500-case pileup, citing state-ordered work furloughs for its
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In the business world, a personal assistant is a trusted employee who assumes the role of an executive’s chief-of-staff. In the past, a personal assistant worked only with celebrities, but that’s no longer the case.
When you become a personal assistant, you are in charge of organizing a great part of
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So you are considering making the leap from line employee to manager. Perhaps you are attracted by the higher pay, increased influence, or just a change from the day to day routine that now defines your job. Maybe you dislike your boss and think you could do a better job
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