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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. Once you earn your degree, you have no obligation to continue learning in that field.

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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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Employee personnel files — what should and shouldn’t be included

BMT Office Administration

Setting up employee personnel files is an important part of the recordkeeping process. However, sometimes people mistakenly think of these files as a catch-all for an individual’s paperwork. Rather, understand that general personnel files serve a distinct purpose. What to include in an employee’s personnel file.

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From Our CEO: My Path to Success and Realizing My Mission

Success

One of us would dress up in Dad’s sports coat or Mom’s skirt, and we would surround ourselves with stuffed animal co-workers or classmates, piles of paperwork and files, toy phones, chalkboards and cups of “really hot” pretend coffee. I learned from those around me. Our concept of work mirrored our parents’ career paths.

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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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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. While celebrating U.S. Part of that process starts with taking notes on how you work, for how many hours, and from where.

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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.