Eat Your Career

AUGUST 28, 2023

can sound like some kind of mysterious monster that’s coming for your job. For example, you might enter something like this: I am a senior executive assistant at a small wealth management firm in Northern California. Follow your organization’s policies and don’t share any private information, whether personal or business-related.

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Professional Assistant Blog

FEBRUARY 19, 2008

Home About Me Advertise Adhering to the "Open Door" Policy By The Professional Assistant on Tuesday, February 19, 2008 Filed Under: Meetings , Prioritize I n my last job, I had my own office. I work in a large firm now where it’s mainly an open concept area, with only the managers having their own offices.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2008

Luckily, in my office, we dress in casual clothes all of the time and we do have a corporate policy of being able to dress up in a costume for this event. Check with your Human Resources Department or manager to see if this falls into your corporate policy.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2008

What would happen if your company gets audited or your manager asks you for an e-mail from a few years ago? The reason I use the latter method is because our company policy is that we cant download any software that IT doesnt approve. This happens to office workers all of the time. There are two ways of backing up your e-mails.

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Professional Assistant Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2008

Then I would create worksheets within each sheet with headings such as: Name Time of Call Reason for Call If you work for more than one manager or you need to track calls for more than one person, you might want to create a heading that states something like "Person Receiving Call" or something along the lines of this.

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Professional Assistant Blog

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

I took it to my manager, since I didn't want to embarrass the person and she took care of it. Our workplace actually has a policy of not allowing them any longer. What makes that right? Posted on 19 June, 2009 2:50 PM The Professional Assistant I've had this same situatino before, where a person would constantly hum.

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Men With Pens

MAY 26, 2010

There were orcs and goblins and all kinds of fantasy monsters. To get experience points, you bashed monsters. You bashed monsters for hours. You bashed monsters by hitting keys on your keyboard whilst wondering if you could hook up a nodding bird à la Homer Simpson. But I managed to finish the project by self-discipline.

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