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Outsourcing - Good or Bad?

Professional Assistant Blog

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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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

“We have a whole generation of millennials and college grads who have come out of college seeing how their parents were perhaps treated in 2008 and are choosing income security over job security” by freelancing, temping and so forth. It’s more important to be employable than, maybe, to be employed full-time.”.

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Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!)

The Small Business Blog

Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!) by Stefan Töpfer on Feb 08, 2010 The top 5 tips weekly post is always full of hints and tips for small, home & micro business owners. Digg Furl Netscape Yahoo!

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Outsourcing Options For Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

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. Hope this will work.

2007 100
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Top 10 Small Business Trends for 2011

Small Business Labs

  To see our past lists, click on the year: 2010 , 2009 , 2008.    Freelancers Realize They're Small Business Owners:   The last few years have seen strong growth in the number of contingent workers - freelancers, part-timers, temps and contractors.  GDP increasing 3%-3.5%.    Economic.

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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

  The CNN article focuses on the growing use of temps.    It was also a key factor in our 2008 forecast that the number of small businesses would increase during the recession - a forecast that met with a lot of skepticism but proved correct (OK, I admit to patting ourselves on the back on this one). 

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Guest Post: What Makes Virtual Administrative Assistants Work?

Laughing all the Way to Work

Business Writing Guidelines for 2008 C or cc or copy? And that’s where a virtual administrative assistant can step in to make all the difference. Protocol for addressing Canadian and foreign digni. That's not my job! Welcome to Canada, Mr. President. Just a secretary. Sticks and stones will break my bones.but names.