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Communication Skills That Have Impact…Choose The Right Medium

Office Dynamics

For example, a co-worker’s bereavement; a vendor’s terminal illness; someone’s adoption or job promotion; a billing inquiry; a credit request on your account; inquiring for information on a job posting; and so much more. When a handwritten is note most appropriate? Does the reason or purpose or event make any difference? Staff member?

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Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

Office Dynamics

A certification can certainly help you get promoted to an executive assistant position or be considered for an executive assistant position. There are some certification programs out there that, unfortunately, don’t teach you how to build partnership with your executive or how to manage your executive’s day; but our programs do. (JB).

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Getting your foot in the door.

Laughing all the Way to Work

It used to be the secretary did everything for the boss, now the executives do a lot of their own administrative work, such as email management, so a background as an admin assistant can certainly help. If a more experienced assistant comes alongside you and provides mentoring - dont refuse it. " Warning! Incoming text message.

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Interview with Rob Siefker of Zappos – Part 4 of 4

Service Untitled

We used to have every twice a year, once a year, whatever, HR would email all the leadership teams so all the managers from all the different departments and stuff, and say okay, it’s review time and everybody gets an email of the most up–to–date review form and all that stuff. So they have manageable team sizes. We used to do that.

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Feelings mixed about recent college hires

On The Job

Jeanne Achille also was disappointed with the hiring of a recent college hire, promoted by a university professor as a “superstar” and fired after three weeks when it was discovered she spent hours online at work visiting a dating site. September 9, 2009 4:53 PM Ask a Manager said. “But you can’t call in sick at 7:45 a.m.

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