With many companies maintaining hybrid schedules and being in the office three to four days per week, we have seen more requests for Part-Time Administrative support than at any other time in the past 50 years Alan J. Blair Personnel has been in business. One of the longest-lasting aftereffects of the COVID economic “symptoms” is the continued reliance on part-time instead of full-time administrative help. On the surface, it makes sense. If your team is fully in the office th

(Spoiler: 432 applicants are not 432 qualified competitors) You’ve just applied for a job on LinkedIn or Indeed. You hit submit  and immediately see it: “472 people have already applied.” Cue the stomach drop. You picture a virtual line of hundreds of other candidates — all better qualified, faster, sharper, with color-coded résumés and executive references. You close your laptop, grab a cookie, and think, “Why bother?” Before you start catastrophizing, let’s pause. Those big