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Strategies for Advancing Your Career Outside of Administrative Services

Office Dynamics

For example, here are a few of the most common roles that may be a great fit for assistants, depending on your skills and interests: Project Manager. Take advantage of that by volunteering to own projects that leverage and develop specific skills you’d like to use in the future. This blog is part of our 2017 Blog-A-Thon.

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Career development for Assistants: 5 common problems and how to solve them

Practically Perfect PA

This is the second of three blogs that we are producing based on all the great information and feedback we got from our workshop participants. Read the first one, on what to look for in an event supplier , and watch out for the third and final blog, on how to ensure organisations value PA work!

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5 Reasons Why Office Admins are the New Power Job

Office Dynamics

Editor’s Note: This is a revised version of an original post from the OfficeNinjas blog. Having the ability to work on things outside of my day to day duties, such as projects and initiatives that impact the company and outside of it. Author: OfficeNinjas. In Good Company.

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6 Tools to Help You Manage Large Projects with Local & Virtual.

Stephanie LH Calahan

  The situation: Tweet "Rob" is a project manager that is responsible for a number of projects across the world and he needs to keep track of all of them.    I LOVE basecamp I have used it to coordinate many different projects where team members are all over the place.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

The Office Professionals Place by Elite Office Concepts The purpose of this blog is to educate, enlighten, motivate, inspire, and strengthen office professionals to grow in their professional development. If it is a project management position, prepare a project status review presentation or the like…you get the idea.

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Some People see Roadblocks -- Others see Hurdles.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Todays Administrative Assistant We all have to work, but who says we cant enjoy it too! My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Thank you so much and I intend to come back to your blog often.

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The Pitfalls of Working in the Entertainment Industry

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

She's been working in sales and her business has soared where she gained a lot of valuable skills as Project Manager and overseeing people, working with clients directly, selling them her creative ideas through pitch meetings, and learning how to use programs like Illustrator which she never had exposure to, among numerous others.