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Certification Programs for Administrative Professionals

Jen Lawrence

Whether you’re an administrative professional looking for a way to validate your skill set or a manager looking to contribute to your admin’s professional development ( thank you, thank you, thank you ), certification is the perfect step. A manager can call for references or give a practical during the interview.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

Career organization is essential for any administrative professional who wants to have a long-lasting, successful career. What I’ve found over time is a lot of people don’t take the time to properly organize the documents and materials that support their career growth and development. Your resume always needs to be current.

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4 Ways to Leverage Your Comprehensive Professional Portfolio Strategy

All Things Admin

Your professional portfolio is a representation of who you are and what you can do, supported by tangible evidence, such as work samples, visual aids, certificates, etc. 3 Types of Professional Portfolios There are three types of professional portfolios: print, social, and digital. The proof is right in front of them.

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Let your fingers do the walking: Quick keyboard shortcut keys

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have gotten in the habit of doing this frequently during the day and hardly even think about it until the system shuts down for some reason and then I breathe a sigh of relief when I open the document (by pressing Ctrl + o by the way) and find that I have not lost any of my work. Ctrl + a - Selects the whole document. 23, 1 p.m.

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A New Resolution for the New Year

The Office Professionals Place

If you want to find a new job, first set the goal of updating your resume. So many of us decide in February that since we haven’t accomplished the goal set on January 1, it is hopeless, be consistent and persistent and refer back to your goals often. Do you need to review interview techniques? Be consistent.

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Surviving the New Boss

The Office Professionals Place

Forward your resume, create brief descriptions of recent projects you have completed for the company, or a CV. Let the Past Go Unless you are asked, dont reference the previous supervisor and do not compare your previous supervisor to the new one. Give him or her a chance to get to know you- the competent employee.

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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Coming from a legal background, we were always taught if you are using an acronym or initialism in writing, on the first use you should spell it out and then put the acronym in brackets, which makes a lot of sense and saves a lot of head scratching and searching the document to figure out what the person is referring to.