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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

Being a 'doer' who takes great pride in my work as an administrative professional, with very few gaps in my work history, you can imagine what life has been like for me since making that leap. Bear in mind, I had been recruited or referred into my past couple of roles, so my resume hadn't been top of mind for a while.

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Embrace Change for Career Success!

All Things Admin

And as much as we may resist it, without it we’d still be using rotary phones and manual typewriters. The Innovative Admin is an administrative professional who introduces, creates, or applies new or renewed ideas or methods of doing things to the office environment. Change is inevitable. But my business changed.

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Riding that Job Wave

Who's the Real Boss?

Are you hanging around in your own role because you feel you haven’t served a long enough period of time for it to be justifiable on your resume? We all have fear of having a resume that you could play hop scotch on. But let me flip this around for you and present another perspective.

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Guest Blog by Alexis Bonari: 10 Easy Ways to Check and Maximize.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Make sure that tasks directly associated with clients come first, consider the financial impact of a project and its completion date on the company, don’t let deadlines control the priority list (expense reports can wait when there are more important tasks), and consider cause and effect (do A to enable B, which accomplishes C).

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Do you like what you do?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have a network of assistants that I call friends, although some are just phone colleagues, but we help each other. If you know what works best for you and if your job is 80/20 on what you like then you can put up with the small stuff like filing and filling out expense forms. GET TO KNOW YOUR CO-WORKERS. We are not an island.

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What ever happened to the "us" in Service?

Laughing all the Way to Work

It was expensive,but when I brought it home I had to do all the work to get it up and running. What about in the office, are we asking our bosses to self-serve or are we providing quality administrative services? Now, there doesnt seem to be a difference in price at all, it is just common practice that we have to do it ourselves.

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Monty Python Officeland

Laughing all the Way to Work

He wrote in one sentence that he had " expensive experience" instead of "extensive" and in another wrote "tits" instead of "its." Posted by Patricia Robb at 9:30 PM Labels: Administrative Assistant , administrative professional , funny ha ha , humour at work Reactions: 3comments: ProAdmin2 said. Good thing I checked.