Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

Administrative assistants are highly skilled in many areas and sometimes we take it for granted, not recognizing where we could go with our skills. Event Planning: Event planning is a big industry that looks for people who are skilled in planning big events without a hitch.

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Administrative Arts

AUGUST 18, 2010

Can they get some sort of training to improve their skills in a particular software program or office process? I noticed though, that more and more of my work involved managing and manipulating.pdf files. So, stop waiting for Human Resources or the Training Department to come up with the perfect class or seminar for your needs.

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Professional Assistant Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2007

Remember that you are there to do your job because you have the skills and qualities that your manager hired you for. Over time, you will get the hang of dealing with difficult people and will become easier and easier each time. Eventually, you will get just a little annoyed and brush it off.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 6, 2008

If the management at your organization doesnt care about whats going on, is this really a place that you want to be at? This person sounds like a typical self-indulgent hipocrit who is climbing the ladder because of her people skills (kissing up) and not actual work related skills.

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Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Although I did have the skills and experience, I wasnt sure employers would view the move as a social disconnect. I found that my job transformed into a sudo management position with a great amount of responsibility. At first, I was a little worried about becoming an administrative assistant. I never found it weird or uncomfortable.

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Stephanie LH Calahan

MAY 13, 2011

Wordpress is not just a software, but a platform for managing, creating and publishing information on the Internet without having any technical and programming skills. And call me old-fashioned, but I still manage my e-mail in Eudora, which behaves in some ways similarly to TweetDeck. Managing Snail Mail And Paper Checks Online.

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Men With Pens

JANUARY 3, 2010

One on one consulting, seminars, meet ups are difficult to copy and expensive to hold. You can’t outsource your US seminar to the Philippines, yet. Then, text information can be in the form of web pages/blog posts, PDF ebooks, forum posts, wikis, etc. And then only what I can manage to actually read.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 6, 2009

Who said it was smart to give a one-hour free seminar, speech or workshop almost every single day? A chance to show off all of my skills and convey the sense that “hey, I can do this for you too.&# You can manage your own stock portfolio or develop a high interest savings account, etc. Who said we were supposed to do that?

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