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5 Administrative Assistant Skills That Add the Most Value

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Knowing how to run virtual meetings, organize newsletters and create PowerPoint presentations puts you a cut above the rest. With over 300 locations worldwide, Robert Half places professionals on a temporary and full-time basis in the accounting/finance, technology, legal, creative and administrative fields.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

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Finance: An assistant with a head for numbers may be able to move into finance in an accounting or a tax firm. Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills. This can be a rewarding career change for those suited to this type of work.

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Standard Operating Procedures: Tips for Creating Business Systems | Office Organization & Office Efficiency | OfficeArrow

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Software such as PowerPoint, Visio or SmartDraw can aid in the development. You can add audio, convert PowerPoint slides to video (including exact slide timing, animations, sound effects, narration, webcam video, and any web pages or applications displayed onscreen during the presentation), and you can record podcasts.

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Answering Reader Mail: Career Progression, Wearing Different Hats, and Realistic Expectations

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

People say they love teaching yoga so they want to open their own yoga studio, but when you do that it really means you’ve become an entrepreneur/business owner and you now have to manage all the marketing, operations, finances, HR, and legal aspects of your business either alone or be in charge of those who do instead of teaching yoga.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

Laughing all the Way to Work

For instance, if you put the action down as Finance Director to pay invoice by January 31st, you need to put what was discussed or later on you will never remember what prompted that action. The team members were pleased with the work and it was agreed that the Finance Director should pay the invoice from the Recreation Account.