The Receptionist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Hard skills are the technical skills that can be taught, such as proficiency in Microsoft Office, bookkeeping, or the ability to type quickly. Screen Applicants Carefully When interviewing candidates for your open position, listen to more than just the content of their answers. Next up are the hard skills.

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Success

JULY 20, 2023

Black says her assistants manage her social media accounts, handle daily bookkeeping, set up appointments and field calls. I have set tasks and office responsibilities that my assistants [one per shift] are responsible for that are clearly defined in the job description and again during the interview.”

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Insperity

AUGUST 21, 2014

You think you need a bookkeeper now, but as the business grows, will you ultimately need a controller? OK, if all your boxes are checked, you’re ready to get the search and interview process started. Surely someone is currently doing the tasks that this person is being hired to do. What will that person do instead?

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Jen Lawrence

APRIL 18, 2019

For instance, an accountant may be better to handle your bookkeeping and taxes rather than searching for a virtual assistant who offers it as a service. You will likely be having a number of conversations while interviewing prospective VAs to partner with. Tip #3: Consider how you will work with your assistant.

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Ask a Manager

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

A reader writes; I have had the opportunity to interview for my dream job with a nonprofit organization that I have always loved and admired. As a typically enthusiastic person, I’m wondering what level of excitement is acceptable to display in my interview? how excited should I seem in an interview? think again!

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Jen Lawrence

APRIL 18, 2019

For instance, an accountant may be better to handle your bookkeeping and taxes rather than searching for a virtual assistant who offers it as a service. You will likely be having a number of conversations while interviewing prospective VAs to partner with. Tip #3: Consider how you will work with your assistant.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a business owner, you have many responsibilities, from overseeing daily business operations and marketing and sales campaigns to creating a business plan, financial management and bookkeeping, customer service, and ensuring legal compliance. Some owners will try to handle everything with a small staff.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

You need to actually get out there and hear people, whether through interviews or surveys or combing through product reviews or forums. “It Set up interviews. When I launched my second online business, I started with a series of one-on-one, face-to-face interviews with writers to just listen. Bookkeeping and some accounting.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2014

I am the bookkeeper here. I’m interviewing for the same job as my former employee. Before I was contacted for the interview at C, an employee (Jane, we’ll say) I directly managed from A sent me an email asking to be a reference for her for the same job I had applied to at C. It’s five answers to five questions.

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MAY 17, 2016

I want to give my interviewer a portfolio demonstrating my admin skills. I am an administrative assistant and have a second job interview coming up the end of this week. However, I only have a few days before my interview and am not sure how to go about presenting it. Just go and do a great interview and let that speak for you.

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JULY 31, 2020

As a new grad with a Philosophy degree, I got a job doing office admin and loved helping with the bookkeeping. On that same day, a different company where I was interviewing reached out to me with an outrageous interview assignment. It was one of the best interviews I’ve ever had, and I got offered the job!

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

Twice a month, we have a bookkeeper (Jane) who comes in for 3-4 hours and does her work while I take calls and do other tasks. This bookkeeper is, well, definitely one of the most negative people I’ve ever met in my life. I communicate with my boss by phone and take calls from clients with work happening on the field.

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AUGUST 6, 2015

Our bookkeeper missed payroll. Our employees weren’t paid on time this pay period and when I asked our bookkeeper about it, she told me she didn’t get to it because she wasn’t feeling well. Should I be looking for a new bookkeeper? Sending thank-you’s for rejections where I wasn’t even interviewed.

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Is it worth spending hours on post-interview thank-you notes? He should write one basic, generic note and just use it repeatedly for all interviews from this point forward. Are there advantages to writing customized thank-you’s that build on the interview conversation? . * It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 22, 2020

And you can’t really tell vodka to lower your public-speaking inhibitions while preserving your “don’t make bad jokes about the CEO/flirt with the hot bookkeeper/divulge how annoying the client is/overshare about your divorce” inhibitions. You may also like: should you accept an alcoholic drink during a job interview?

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 6, 2023

I am looking for a volunteer to do some video editing, and today I interviewed someone who had said they were interested. But on the other hand, I don’t think it would be hard to find someone who truly wants to do this on a volunteer basis (I already had another interview lined up next week for the project).

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 8, 2015

Things like taxes and bookkeeping and selling. (It My very first official interview resulted in a job offer, which I declined (with great anxiety!). An hour after hitting “send” on my application, I got an email asking me to come in that day for an interview. Sure, I have a million great ideas (SQUIRREL!).

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AUGUST 22, 2021

I manage the bookkeeping for multiple businesses that the owners are involved in. I have therefore been interviewing a lot of undergrad students from a variety of majors. A couple of times, I have interviewed students who I think would be a great fit, but when I meet them in person I see they have long, painted fingernails.

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JANUARY 25, 2015

I am the bookkeeper/admin, and was open to getting on board to a more efficient practice, but I have found almost no validity to it being better, but merely a personal preference. Slowing down an interview process while I wait to hear from med school. My med school interview is in 2 weeks; I should get an answer 2 weeks after that.

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OCTOBER 12, 2020

I’ve been working as a bookkeeper since February and before that I had an internship (about three months) at a car dealership, so I have a little experience but a lot of jobs ask for 2-5 years. Layoffs are very normal right now (always, in fact, but especially right now); it’s not something that interviewers will be alarmed to hear.

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Eat Your Career

MARCH 8, 2015

Things like taxes and bookkeeping and selling. (It My very first official interview resulted in a job offer, which I declined (with great anxiety!). An hour after hitting “send” on my application, I got an email asking me to come in that day for an interview. Sure, I have a million great ideas (SQUIRREL!).

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 29, 2018

You don’t need to achieve 100% alignment — having different perspectives in the mix is valuable — but it’s worth naming the differences you’re seeing and trying to sort through what’s behind them.

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JULY 4, 2018

My mom started working for an outsourcing payroll/finance/bookkeeping/admin company at the beginning of the year. My friend said she’d interview me … and I haven’t heard anything. Even if they don’t think I’m a perfect fit for the position, given her enthusiasm and encouragement, I expected to at least get an interview.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2022

From the moment she opened Ditto Boutique, a luxury consignment store in Dallas, Jane DeNike outsourced the complex tasks of payroll and paying taxes to a bookkeeper and accountant. You uncover outsourcing talent the same way you find employees: by networking in person or online, asking for recommendations and interviewing carefully.

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OCTOBER 10, 2017

I have been working as a bookkeeper for five months at my current job. I got my interview date wrong. I have been preparing for an interview for what could be my dream job for almost a week. I had the first interview eight weeks ago and beat five external candidates. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go….

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Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 20, 2015

One of the most common situations I run into is when a candidate comes into the office to apply or for an interview, and I ask what type of work they are looking for, and they respond “I’ll take anything! I hate to put the candidates through so many hours of applying, interviewing, testing, etc.

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JANUARY 14, 2022

I even took an interview at an upscale grocery chain’s corporate headquarters in my city, but the position would have been a lateral move from what I was already doing, and when I shared with my mom that I was interviewing elsewhere, they ended up offering me a 20% raise to stay, so I did. It has been a huge help!”

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Ask a Manager

AUGUST 10, 2021

Thankfully this happened at the very end of the interview (or the interviewers decided that my awkwardness would be a great time to end the interview). “First job interview ever, as a page in the children’s room of my local public library, with two librarians who had known me since I was a toddler. Misanthropy.

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 11, 2021

Some of this is targeted to interviews specifically, but much of it works for non-interview conversations as well.). • “I would suggest keeping some freelance work as a side gig. And being mostly self-employed avoided the interview questions and resume gap concerns.”

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Ask a Manager

JULY 18, 2016

After three years, I graduated at the top of my class and immediately started working as a bookkeeper. When is the right time to mention this, when I apply, or during the interview? (My My thoughts are along the lines of, when applying, put availability as “special, will discuss during interview.”) Am I being a jerk?)

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Work Life

MARCH 18, 2025

Other companies are deliberating baking a human touch into their hiring tools: With its new ZipIntro tool, ZipRecruiter uses AI to quickly and automatically connect employers with job candidates for face-to-face video interviews.

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