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The Perfect Executive Assistant—Hard Skills or Soft Skills?

C-Suite Assistants

In fact, there is consensus among talent professionals that bad hires usually lack soft skills. A Linkedin survey reported that 89% of talent professionals attribute lack of soft skills as the reason for a bad hire and 92% feel that soft skills matter as much or more than hard skills when hiring.

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Are Professional Certifications Worth It?

Eat Your Career

For example, a recent OfficeTeam survey of the administrative profession found that employers pay up to 8% more on average (in the U.S.) Possessing it demonstrates expert-level mastery of the skills required to leverage systems like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Sometimes, yes, but not necessarily.

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The Advertising Game

Laughing all the Way to Work

I understand a company would be interested in knowing why people unsubscribe so they can improve their business, but a quick voluntary survey back would have been more appropriate. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? It was nice to have the immediate contact. ► March (2) Admin Buddies Are you prepared?

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