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How to Track Continuing Education Units (CEUs) to Maintain Professional Certifications

Eat Your Career

Continuing Education Units (or CEUs) are often required to maintain professional certifications. To avoid that kind of unnecessary stress, it’s important to properly manage and track your continuing education requirements. If you need 24 hours of education over 2 years, that works out to one hour per month, which is easily doable.

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Simplify Your Filing System and Retire Your To-File Pile

All Things Admin

When was the last time you made an effort to catch up on your filing? Many times, we struggle with filing because it feels overwhelming, we’re not sure where to begin, or we don’t have an easy system in place. Filing can be inconvenient and time consuming. But there are ways to simplify your filing system. Last month?

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Tax Planning for Freelancers: 5 Strategic Moves To Make Now To Avoid Tax Pain Next Year

Allwork

While the dust from the 2023 tax filing season has long since settled, if you are a freelance worker, independent contractor , or digital nomad, now isn’t the time to forget about your taxes. According to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), “a sole proprietor is someone who owns an unincorporated business by himself or herself.”

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Employee Files: What to include, what to leave out, and what’s confidential

BMT Office Administration

While dealing with lots of paperwork doesn’t rank as most HR professionals’ favorite task, proper recordkeeping for employee personnel files is a must for any organization. In addition, if an employee is involuntarily let go, their employee file must be kept for one year following the termination date. Why is that?

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Office Dynamics Top 10 Blogs For Administrative Professionals

Office Dynamics

Office Dynamics International has and always will be focused on YOU. Your training, your education, your professional advancement, and your overall well being is important to us. The Admin’s Guide To Organizing Digital Files. Enjoy and once again, THANK YOU! A Secretary Vs An Executive Assistant.

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3 Ways to Create a Better System for Information Management

All Things Admin

Here’s how you can implement color coding: Physical Files : Use colored folders or labels to differentiate between different projects or document types. I love translucent colored poly pockets combined with colored file folders to create instant visual distinction of what’s waiting for me each day in my priority sorter.

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7 Simple Ways to Create a Change of Space

All Things Admin

Create permanent homes for the paperwork and files that are cluttering your desktop. . Even the most organized admin sometimes gets behind with filing. Make an effort to spent 15-20 minutes each day filing, or creating files for the items that need to be saved. Reorganize your desk drawers and file drawers.

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