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The four day week and a case of less is more

Workplace Insight

Following the success of a New Zealand-based trial at property planning company, Perpetual Guardian in 2018, Andrew Barnes and Charlotte Lockhart set up 4 Day Week Global, the not-for-profit platform for the promotion of the four-day week. Instead, look at the results.”. As one of his members of staff commented: “It’s about choice.

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

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. Sure, some of them might have the same jobs, but you will soon find that sometimes a company will only work with one specific agency. Job hunting is a numbers and timing game.

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What being a virtual assistant is like – for me

Denise Aday

On behalf of my clients, I work with other VAs, as well as virtual assistance agencies both inside and outside the US. For example, a prospective client who approached me via Twitter became irate at having to wait four days for a free phone consult and at having to fill out a questionnaire ahead of time. No permission required.

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Ep 243: Nicole Grinnell on Delegation and Unlocking Your Productivity Potential

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

All those traditional holiday things, go to the plaza, just walk through go through the park. It’s obviously the host is now providing to me social media, SEO exposure, they’re promoting it, I’m getting into their network. I was on the phone. Jeremy Burrows 2:49 Nice. Well, we’ll definitely do that.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

After only 2 weeks, I found a great company through a staffing agency and the position was full time working for a wonderful CEO. Keep in mind, the role of a staffing agency/HR is to work for the company and to protect the CEO/client, their company, and their business, and their money. In hindsight, I am 99.9%

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Do Clients Need to Like You to Buy? | Men With Pens

Men With Pens

How To Promote Your Business On A Budget Reply James ( @MenwithPens ) January 11, 2010 at 7:06 am @Michael – I’m tossed up about that. Back when I used to work for advertising and marketing agencies, the client would choose from a list of agencies they had heard of and get us to pitch. How could they not know?

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Insurer Puts Integrity in its Name and Appreciation at its Core

Energage

A cultural cornerstone at AI happens not during the December holiday season, but at Thanksgiving, which also has a purpose. In AI’s sales, marketing, and agency department, an area where some companies’ pressures to meet goals have serious repercussions, engagement climbed 12 percentage points year over year to a whopping 89 percent. “The