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Furthering Your Education on a Budget

Success

Still, there are ways to continue to increase your skills at work without spending a massive amount of money. If all that’s required is giving up a weekend or two to an online conference or seminar, then the effort may be worth it for the payoff. But if you’re planning to go after a degree, you will need to plan much more extensively.

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Hitting the salary cap

Practically Perfect PA

Everyone was placed in a salary band depending on their experience and their skills. Except support staff who were placed in lower salary bands or slotted in somewhere that sort of fitted what they did. I was placed in a low (not rock bottom but not particularly high) salary band with other assistants and admin type people.

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The Skills You Need to be Great Boss

On The Job

Being a manager can be rewarding and could be key to your garnering a better salary and more opportunities. As the economy begins to improve, chances for promotions into the managerial ranks are expected to increase. Another big error: Assuming that just because you have top-notch skills in a certain area that you'll be a good manager.

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Getting buy in from the boss

Practically Perfect PA

It is imperative to be proactive about self-promotion in order to showcase your skills, achievements and personal brand. Highlight WIFM (what’s in it for me) and help them to see that you will gain skills and knowledge that will be essential for future growth. Salary Increase. The role has changed and so must we.

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What can assistants expect in 2013

Practically Perfect PA

This could be as simple a step as setting up a LinkedIn profile to using twitter for networking with other assistants through to blogging and taking part in virtual conferences. It is getting so much easier for Committees to meet virtually and this will become more and more popular over the next year as will virtual conferences and events.

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Reward and Recognition within the Assistant Industry

Practically Perfect PA

For all of you that could not attend the Assist Conference this year I wanted to share my presentation with you – Reward and Recognition within the Assistant Industry. We conducted a survey last year and one of the questions asked what session would the readers like to see at a conference. Again this is fairly common.

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The Administrative EFX by Debbie Gross

Office Dynamics

Debbie was a speaker at the Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence and shared more insight on the topic below. 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!