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it’s your Friday good news

Alison Green

1. “I wanted to write a note to you to express my thanks to you and the wonderful community at Ask a Manager. Since I first stumbled upon your blog, probably around 4 or 5 years ago (when I was really starting to put some serious effort and thought into a job search), I have long lost count of how many people I directed to your site.

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updates: should I lie on my resume, offering references on me as a manager, and more

Alison Green

season at Ask a Manager and I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Here are four updates from past letter-writers. After much time to think, and contemplate, I realized that me asking this question and writing this letter to you was simply my way of venting a bit of frustration.

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Customer Support Rep Job Description: Template and Examples

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Customer support representative is one of the most common jobs on the market for individuals looking to work in technology, so the job description you write for your open role needs to be exceptional in order to attract applications from exceptional candidates. From there, move into describing the role itself.

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update: my former employer wants “my side of the story” about a process I didn’t document when I left

Alison Green

month at Ask a Manager, and all December I’m running updates from people who had their letters here answered in the past. Remember the letter-writer whose former employer wanted “their side of the story” about a process they didn’t document when they left (#2 at the link)? It’s “where are you now?” Here’s the update.

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it’s your Friday good news

Alison Green

I certainly didn’t think that I’d be writing a letter for Friday Good News, but here we are. My skills outgrew my role quickly, but I took your advice to remember how junior I am and do all the ‘boring’ stuff cheerfully. I realized that regardless of how much I like the people I work with, my workplace isn’t going to get better.

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I don’t want to stock the kitchen anymore, asking why the friend I recommended wasn’t hired, and more

Alison Green

This post was written by Alison Green and published on Ask a Manager. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go… 1. I don’t want to be the one ordering lunch and stocking the kitchen anymore I’m a woman in my mid 30s and have been working at least part-time since middle school and full-time since earning my graduate degree a decade ago.

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it’s your Friday good news

Alison Green

I re-read all the articles on your blog about resume and cover letter writing and did a ton of work on my materials to condense and showcase results. I re-read all the articles on your blog about resume and cover letter writing and did a ton of work on my materials to condense and showcase results.