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Why an effective onboarding process is more important than you think

Page Personnel

Word spreads quickly within professions, so your new hires are likely to share their experiences — both good and bad — with their peers, either via word of mouth or on blogs and social media. One of the most effective ways of onboarding, however, is designating a mentor to your new recruit.

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The Administrative EFX by Debbie Gross

Office Dynamics

Guest Blog entry provided by Debbie Gross, Chief Executive Assistant to John Chamber, Cisco Systems. In those days I was an office manager with 3 people reporting to me and my salary was growing at less than 3% per year. We hope that you enjoy her guest post. Am I passionate about this profession? Absolutely! Absolutely!

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The Administrative EFX by Debbie Gross

Office Dynamics

Guest Blog entry provided by Debbie Gross, Chief Executive Assistant to John Chamber, Cisco Systems. In those days I was an office manager with 3 people reporting to me and my salary was growing at less than 3% per year. We hope that you enjoy her guest post. Am I passionate about this profession? Absolutely! Absolutely!

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Book Review: Give and Take

Productivityist

As I continue my travels, I''m offering up a guest post from a regular contributor to the blog, Mike Dariano. When these givers shifted their thinking from acting for themselves to acting like a mentor for themselves, they shifted into the right frame of giving. You can connect with him on Twitter at @MikeDariano.

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Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

“I just came across your blog and really enjoy the information you posted! I have heard of EAs working for successful international corporations and earning a very large salary. If you’ve decided you want to be an EA or have a career that leads to a great salary, it all starts with growth. I was wondering about career path.

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On the Outside Looking In

Laughing all the Way to Work

Be aware when going online that more and more employers are searching the Internet with the names of potential employees to see if they are online, not only on interactive job sites, but also what we may be saying on other social networking sites such as blogs and Facebook or MySpace. Do you know about your professional association ?

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Reward and Recognition within the Assistant Industry

Practically Perfect PA

I wrote a blog about this a few weeks ago and shared some of the responses to that question. So, after some advice from my mentor, I started sending my boss weekly emails detailing what I had achieved that week. We conducted a survey last year and one of the questions asked what session would the readers like to see at a conference.

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