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2023 Financial Forecast: How to Prepare for the Year Ahead

Success

It’s become more difficult in the past year, however, to know what your expenses will be each month—and that makes it all the more challenging to stick to a budget. In the past year, two dynamics in the broader economy have made it especially difficult to stick with a budget and avoid racking up debt.

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Serviced Apartments – pros and cons

Practically Perfect PA

At first the consultants picked their own hotels and put the cost through their expenses and as you can imagine their choice of hotels varied wildly and so did the price. Once the recession really hit home my Director’s budget was cut quite drastically and she asked all of us to think of ways to cut back on costs.

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5 Administrative Assistant Skills That Add the Most Value

Admin Awards

Industry knowledge. Knowing the three T’s of the industry — terminology, trends and technology — and being able to articulate them on your administrative resume means that even as a new hire, you will begin to contribute immediately. Budget perceptiveness. Ability to display grace under pressure.

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Of car dealerships and customer service

Service Untitled

Jaguar of North America has just been recognized as a JD Power 2011 Customer Service Champion which means they have excelled in their own industry by delivering superior service to their US customers. Surprisingly statistics indicate that only 30 percent of car buyers negotiate online. Use social media to carry your message.

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So do assistants think the role has diversified?

Practically Perfect PA

This role included updating my Executive’s CV, keeping licenses current for my exec, helping with the immigration process (my exec wasn’t a citizen at the time), and my absolute favourite, figuring out how to get a lot of expensive furniture imported from Asia! In this role I managed staff, but was not given a manager title.

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Tori Dunlap, Founder of Her First 100K is on a Mission to Close the Gender Pay Gap

Success

I’m no stranger to setting lofty money goals : At 9 years old I became cognizant of the idea of college—a seemingly far-off milestone that my parents described as “important” and “expensive”—and decided I needed to proactively save money for my college education. What does it mean to pursue financial feminism?

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How We Pulled Off a Huge Event Through Outsourcing

Productivityist

For this “day of open doors” for the startup industry, we cooperated with over 100 companies in over 80 locations all over Berlin and around 700 participants from all over the world. About 4 weeks before SuSBerlin , the number of things that needed to be done was proving to be too much for our small team of five people.

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