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Top 5 Tips for Finding Great Employees (cheaply!)

The Small Business Blog

Build your own network! Temp agencies are useful – look at them as being a trial period for potential employees. do cost cutting do credit control do customer service export find funding grow your business handle problems keep data safe lower overheads manage your time market and sell motivate your staff not to do it!

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Outsourcing Options For Small Business | THE SMALL BUSINESS BLOG

The Small Business Blog

Build your own network! 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.

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Answering Reader Mail: What Do Employers Look for in High-Level EA Candidates?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

First and foremost, your job as an EA is to master working with many different people in a customer service role, and the admin work is actually secondary. I mention how I worked for all my CEOs because I was recruited away as a temp. My goal as temp was to be asked back as a temp repeatedly - that’s it.

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Is The EA Role Right For You?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I started out as a temp and figured I’d pay my dues, network, and hop to another company or department. You have a customer service attitude with the sophistication, grace, and diplomacy of royalty. I bantered around various ideas from being a photographer, teacher, newscaster, or print journalist.

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