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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

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What better candidate to take on that role as a career, than the assistant who regularly plans events from small meetings to large conferences. Event Planning: Event planning is a big industry that looks for people who are skilled in planning big events without a hitch. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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The importance of having someone to talk to

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The problem that sometimes occurs with sharing with current co-workers is it can turn into office gossip. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? Some situations however need to be kept in-house and only those who are involved would benefit from discussing it and understand what it was about. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Psst! I'm in a bad mood, pass it on.

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I wouldnt recommend talking about a co-worker with someone at the office or it ends up being gossip and spreads a bad feeling about that person. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? The good thing about apologizing is even though a bad mood was passed along, saying you are sorry goes a long way to making things right. (I