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How to Project Manage Your Career

Eat Your Career

They stand for Project Management Professional (PMP) and Professional Career Manager (PCM). Your career is one of the most important projects in your life. And I assure you: when you apply a project management mindset and project management strategies to it, you’ll achieve much more!

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Succession Planning For Your Executive Assistant Team: What HR Leaders Need to Know

Worxbee

There will always be a lag period as they learn the ins and outs of the role and sometimes, that can be expensive for your company. Consider also that the average age of an executive assistant is 48 years old, with a considerable number among the Baby Boom generation working as corporate EAs and due to retire in the next five to 10 years.

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The UK workplace sector reacts to the Spring Budget 2023

Workplace Insight

Lysan Drabon, Managing Director Europe, Project Management Institute: “Talking about breaking down barriers to employment is not enough. Boosting the creation of more high-quality and flexible jobs is also one of the best ways to encourage and enable people to extend their working lives, rather than opting for early retirement.”

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The Future of the Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

Administrators handled many tasks, and had backups, cross training, and team-shared projects. Others could no longer afford to retire. I would like “secretary” to be a retired title that just goes away. They can be project managers, ambassadors of their manager’s vision, and more. What’s in a name?

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How Veterans Can Find a Job in the Private Sector

On The Job

Joe Kearney retired from the Army after 23 years and has two words of advice for fellow veterans who will be looking for a job in the private sector: "Start early." I originally wrote this story a couple of years ago, but it''s still valuable advice for vets. They can help you understand how not to overvalue or undervalue yourself."

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How to Become a Certified Coach

Success

Clients of professional certified coach Victor McGuire are working on “anything from learning how to be better leaders and communicate more effectively to dealing with common confidence issues such as imposter syndrome.” For clients of Jo Davis , the work is “[finding] meaning, a career change, retirement or planning for it.”.

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The Most Critical Lessons From This Crummy Job Market

On The Job

I did this story for my Gannett/USAToday.com column in the hopes that well all learn from these "never again" stories. While many of those unemployed in the last year have managed to find work again, the – sometimes painful – lessons they have learned will stick with them for a career lifetime, they say. “I

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