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Key skills round-up 2019

Practically Perfect PA

I hope you enjoy our key skills round-up 2019. We focused really heavily this year on increasing our content around the key skills Assistants need to develop in their role this year. We covered a lot of skills including minute taking, event management, organising business travel, project management and everything in between!

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Here Are 5 Benefits Virtual Reality Brings To Soft Skills Training

Allwork

More and more organizations are implementing or planning to implement a VR training program for soft skills. . According to Patrick Manglano of Roundtable Learning, there are five top 5 benefits that VR brings to soft skill learning. . For instance, in 2019, Walmart trained more than 1 million employees using VR.

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Walmart Joins Major U.S. Companies Shifting Focus To Skills Over Degrees

Allwork

If these decisions inspire more companies to invest in skills over degrees, the job seekers are poised for entirely different ways of approaching and considering job opportunities. Companies Shifting Focus To Skills Over Degrees appeared first on Allwork.Space. corporations could be the beginning of a new chapter in the workforce.

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Our false memory of work in 2019 is stopping us from having better conversations

Workplace Insight

The only grim entertainment still to be extracted from this bickering can be found watching the wild fluctuations in people’s critical thinking skills when faced with sets of information which back up their intractable stance, and those that don’t. Nobody was talking about this in 2019. It is a very 21st Century conversation.

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Demand for IT Plummets as Technology Firms Shift Focus to AI

Allwork

As artificial intelligence (AI) continues to be developed at a relentless pace, many tech workers accustomed to high salaries and strong demand for their skills are facing a new reality: adapt by learning AI development skills or brace for tougher job prospects and reduced pay.

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Administrative Professionals Day 2019 – A Message from Dana

Office Dynamics

Joan stated – Expand your mind; add to your skill set; challenge your thinking; look at your day in a new way; be a life-long student. Our profession is unique in the sense that so many of our skills are not only utilized professionally but personally as well. You will amaze yourself!

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The Most Common Professions of Skilled Freelancers Working for Businesses

Small Business Labs

To help with this problem, the MBO Partners 2019 Client of Choice study used natural language processing tools to help categorize independent workers who provide services to businesses. But the list above provides a solid estimate for skilled professionals providing services to businesses. 

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