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Do Men Or Women Lie More About Experience When Job Seeking?

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The corporate culture’s emphasis on self-promotion, along with biases against women in both hiring and career advancement, compels women to embellish their qualifications to remain competitive. The study also found that women are 43% more likely than men to exaggerate their work experience while job-hunting.

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5 Expert Tips To Make A Successful Early Career Pivot

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“The researchers ran an experiment using data from 20 million LinkedIn profiles, and it showed just how much we rely on weak ties — meaning people we only know slightly — to land new jobs. Their study showed that it’s often our casual acquaintances, rather than our closest friends, who turn out to be our most useful connections in job hunts.

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Five Essential Strategies for Successful Hybrid Leadership

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They must determine the best methods to manage in this new environment, accepting that there will be a level of discomfort and uncertainty in the process. This might explain why remote workers get promoted less often than their peers, despite being 15% more productive on average.

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Interview Questions and Answers for PAs, EAs and Administrators

Practically Perfect PA

I decided to leave my previous employee in June 2010 but was job hunting for 6 months and when I did get the role I am in currently I had to complete a detailed application form, attend three interviews and sit two psychometric tests (for language and numerical skills). However, this just isn’t the case anymore.

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Social Media Do’s and Don’ts for assistants

Practically Perfect PA

Twitter is great for networking and hearing from other assistants, LinkedIn is great for professional development and job hunting, Facebook is useful for interesting articles and receiving updates from relevant companies. Do post pictures of yourself and your environment just ensure they are professional and not too revealing!

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Gift Wrapping an Executive Assistant: How to Package Yourself to Obtain Results!

Office Dynamics

As an executive assistant used to a fast-paced environment supporting executives, you are like a finely tuned system. Are you “gift wrapped” to best promote your professionalism and spirit of excellence? Perhaps you aren’t job hunting, but have an idea you’d like to pitch to management.

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Gift Wrapping an Executive Assistant: How to Package Yourself to Obtain Results!

Office Dynamics

As an executive assistant used to a fast-paced environment supporting executives, you are like a finely tuned system. Are you “gift wrapped” to best promote your professionalism and spirit of excellence? Perhaps you aren’t job hunting, but have an idea you’d like to pitch to management.

Gifts 100