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A Day in the Life of an Admin

The Office Professionals Place

Their duties include (but are not limited to) answering and screening calls, meeting and greeting clients and customers, maintaining executives calendars, writing correspondence, generating reports, meeting planning, filing, travel arrangements, maintain client/customer data records, supervising others, and the list goes on.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Today’s assistants are computer savvy, smart and up-and-coming, and consider themselves professionals in the workplace. They are no longer stuck within the job description box, but have the freedom to break out of the mould and redefine their roles and sometimes even change their careers.

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

As wonderful as online learning can be, going to a live conference or seminar with other assistants is something that you should try to do a few times a year. All you need is to put some time aside and close your door, or put some earphones on, and plug into your computer and learn. I think I am just not used to having to think about me.

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I got an e-slap on the wrist - Ouch!

Laughing all the Way to Work

I also learned at a "Working Smarter with Microsoft Outlook" seminar that we should not use e-mails as urgent requests. I had a situation a couple of years ago where I had replied to an e-mail that I had mis-read and that caused a bit of kirfluffle (not sure how spell that). This little tip has been a huge time-saver for me. (for