Job Advice Blog

OCTOBER 14, 2010

In this situation you can’t just rely on posting your resume and sending it out. Now I know not everyone can join due to the expense but there are plenty of very affordable tennis clubs or perhaps workout clubs. How do you go about finding a new job for yourself, especially if there are other key factors in play like your age?

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Job Advice Blog

AUGUST 29, 2010

Home Founder Resume Writing Career Coaching Marketing Yourself Selling Yourself Job Stress General Advice Interview Skills "The Relocated Spouse [link] — jobconnection Beware of Career Marketing Firms On August 29, 2010, In Interview Skills by Alex Freund , By Alex Freund 0 Last week I received a request from a family member of mine in transition. (..)

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Stephanie LH Calahan

AUGUST 3, 2011

This past Monday, Michele Price interviewed me on #SpeakChat.   Consider having these items on your Coordinator Toolkit: ALL your contact info, One sheet, Speaking resume. Make sure to have a process in place to itemize expenses & bill promptly after the presentation & provide receipts as needed. After Event.

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Eat Your Career

JULY 21, 2010

Workbooks Stress Management Workbook Time Management Magic Reinvent Your Career Workbook More Tasty Goodness Career Management Consulting Job Interview Coaching Resume Revision Group Training & Public Speaking Eat My WHAT?! Why go through the hassle of building a resume? So you have to bring the goods.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 5, 2009

INTERVIEW WELL Make it a conversation. You are interviewing them too so ask questions. Take notes during the interview so you don’t forget what you wanted to ask. Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. CONFUSCIUS SAID, “Love what you do and you will never work a day in your life.&#

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Small Business CEO

JANUARY 31, 2017

Whether its copies of a resume for an interview or notices for employees, you’ll always have to print something. There’s nothing more expensive than replacing an entire printer cartridge when one ink color runs out. The printer is one of the most used pieces of office equipment. The problem is that printing isn’t exactly cheap.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JANUARY 10, 2010

It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. Now, there doesnt seem to be a difference in price at all, it is just common practice that we have to do it ourselves. Recently, I bought a new laptop. What is wrong with this picture?

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C-Suite Assistants

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Hiring and training are long and expensive processes, and you don’t want to have to do it again right away because either you or your new hire end up unhappy. They will also interview you to make sure all of the important jobs responsibilities are included. Finding the Perfect Fit. Sure, you could find an assistant on your own.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 29, 2009

He wrote in one sentence that he had " expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. He relied totally on spell check so you can imagine what typos were missed. Good thing I checked. Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard sh.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

JULY 16, 2010

Make sure that tasks directly associated with clients come first, consider the financial impact of a project and its completion date on the company, don’t let deadlines control the priority list (expense reports can wait when there are more important tasks), and consider cause and effect (do A to enable B, which accomplishes C).

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Laughing all the Way to Work

DECEMBER 31, 2009

He wrote in one sentence that he had "expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." I bet they never asked you that question at a job interview). Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. He relied totally on Spell Check so you can imagine what typos were missed.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 25, 2009

I was called in for an interview at an agency and it was the assistant that did all the vetting of the candidates. The executive basically yelled at me for showing up for the interview because he wasn't a CEO and he thought it was absurd that I would even show up for a non-CEO executive assistant position. So that leaves Los Angeles.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 10, 2012

One of the most surprising things for me was to learn that not all companies will give you an expense account or a company credit card. That’s assuming you have enough free time to do an expense report immediately for 2 hours on top of your already busy schedule. You’ll need to make copies of your resume or have a nice folder.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 24, 2009

As he's been interviewing everyone would ask him the same questions. 3) As I'm interviewing around town, I've noticed a lot of roles require expert-level usage of software programs that me or my supervisors never had to use - Quickbooks, Powerpoint, and Excel or bookkeeping, accounting, and sales-related skills.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 17, 2012

Any recruiter who sees your resume and finds out you used to be a lawyer will silently wonder the following questions. Whether based on your cover letter or resume, recruiters only take 6 seconds to see if you are match. If the fit isn’t close enough, they toss or file your resume. 1) Do you have the admin skills to be an EA?

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BMT Office Administration

JULY 3, 2023

These types of files include: Cover letters Resumes Employment applications References Interview notes Remember not to include any pre-hire documents that must be kept confidential, such as an employee’s I-9 form. Also, you’re legally obligated to retain these records for at least one year by the EEOC.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 13, 2022

If you don’t communicate about your financial situation, then some of your more pessimistic employees might start feeling anxious and polishing their resumes. . Imagine you’re interviewing a candidate for a new job, and you have a sense that something’s up. After firing half its workforce, Twitter quickly asked many to come back.

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Recruit CRM

JULY 14, 2020

Every day recruiters are flooded with hundreds of resumes for various jobs advertised. It is virtually impossible for recruiters to scan each resume manually and shortlist them. An average of 75-88 % of resumes received is not qualified for the job. ( You can find a good guide for resume screening here. )

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Recruit CRM

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Ever wondered why recruiters do not even see 70% of the resumes ? If you think the resume is going to be carefully analysed by a recruiter in the first go, then you're wrong. If you think the resume is going to be carefully analysed by a recruiter in the first go, then you're wrong. The resume gets first processed by an ATS.

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Success

JANUARY 18, 2023

After a meal break, the probability jumped back to about 65% before resuming its decline. I don’t need anything fancy, but I do need adaptability—something suited for home and the coffee shop, lunches and interviews, school registration and playgrounds. The later-session prisoners weren’t significantly different. High-end rims?

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Melissa Peoples

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

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. 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.

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Recruit CRM

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Applicant Tracking System An Applicant Tracking System is nothing but simply a recruitment software that is used to track and source candidates, manage job applications, helps in resume parsing and so on. This is essential in reducing insurance costs and also unnecessary and expensive lawsuits by hiring the wrong candidate.

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Who's the Real Boss?

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Are you hanging around in your own role because you feel you haven’t served a long enough period of time for it to be justifiable on your resume? We all have fear of having a resume that you could play hop scotch on. But let me flip this around for you and present another perspective.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I did very well on my interviews and it's down to me and one other EA who already has a full time job. 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. I recently found myself out of work and started my search.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

I’d like a website, but I’m having a hard time justifying the expense.&# That new shirt is supposed to make you more successful at the job interview. I agree with you that an expensive-looking appeal and impression are key. I have my offline business and that does well. Okay, no problem. Thanks again for sharing.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 13, 2009

Many freelancers don’t have to send their resumes to people anymore, so those degrees don’t see a lot of action, but they’re there, collecting dust on our walls. A communications degree got me an interview but after a few years, no one bothered to ask me about my communications degree. With that said, you only get out what you put in.

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Recruit CRM

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Finally, “time in process” breaks down the time to hire by the amount of time a job seeker spends in each step of the hiring process, which may include screening resumes and conducting interviews. For example, you may discover that your hiring managers are taking weeks to bring in job candidates for interviews.

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Allwork

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Hiring managers are increasingly reluctant to hire Gen Z graduates due to concerns about work ethic, professionalism, and interview preparedness. 1 in 4 hiring managers find recent graduates ill-prepared for interviews, citing poor eye contact, inappropriate dress, and even candidates bringing their parents along.

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

Any email that begins with, “I probably don’t have enough experience,&# “I’m not sure I’m what you’re looking for,&# or even “I’m sure you probably have much better writers sending in their resume,&# pretty much forces the reply, “You’re right. DO take a chance.

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Allwork

MARCH 11, 2025

Why do companies still think prioritizing employee well being comes at the expense of productivity and profits. And so they’ve cataloged these folks and they’ve interviewed them and so it’s just a great, they can tell you way more stories about these companies than I can in our short time today.

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Success

OCTOBER 24, 2024

We were interviewing a candidate for a position at my then-company. I knew the candidate was about my age or a little older based on her impressive resume filled with roles at top-tier companies dating back to the early 2000s. Earlier this year, I hopped on a Zoom call along with my colleague, who is in her late 40s like me.

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