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The Structural Shift to a Contingent Workforce

Small Business Labs

  While everyone focuses on the lower cost of contingent workers, we believe the increased business flexibility they provide is at least an equally important driver.    The CNN article focuses on the growing use of temps.    These are folks who turn to self-employment because they can't find a job. 

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Tell us your story on how you went from temping in LA to being the EA of high-profile CEOs. I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. So I left that temp gig and went to work for the CEO.

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Answering Reader Mail: Career Progression, Wearing Different Hats, and Realistic Expectations

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

EA work is typically admin work - phones, travels, calendars, expense reports, mtgs/luncheons, etc. It’s not unheard of to be on call 24/7 or to work 60-100 hours a week depending on your executive and industry. This segues into another aspect about being a Fortune-ranked EA. It’s because they trust you.

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Which Person Would You Talk To?

Men With Pens

You recently wrote in a medium that’s probably more familiar to our readers: an article about your home in Miguasha that was published in National Geographic Traveler as one of the world’s 50 destinations of a lifetime. Kind of like “offshoring&# in the tech industry. That’s pretty impressive! And I like me.

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