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12 Last-Minute Gift Ideas For Digital Nomads

Allwork

The gift ideas below should give you inspiration and are also suitable for different budgets, with many quite reasonably priced. . If you’re living and working in different countries, with changing time zones, collaborating with colleagues around the world can be difficult. Digital learning subscription .

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Sticks and stones will break my bones.but names will never hurt me

Laughing all the Way to Work

That is a good time to recognize assistants for all that they do. Imagine, if we had assistants at home to pay the bills, do the budget, organize dinners, answer our calls and follow up with reminders -- it is starting to sound pretty good. EST Taking Effective Meeting Minutes Join me for a Webinar Oct. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

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. One of our main duties is to keep our bosses organized.

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Who is attending the Virtual Summit?

Practically Perfect PA

I have been getting a lot of emails from assistants wondering how they can watch the Summit in their time zone. Minute taking is a much sought after skill in organisations. Developing your business acumen on a shoestring budget. Welcome everyone, the Summit really is going global! Watching from your part of the world.

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The Future of the Administrative Profession

Office Dynamics

Training budgets were ample; opportunity for advancement sparkled like diamonds for the taking. Training budgets dissipated, opportunities dried up, and assistants had larger workloads without staffing backups. Demonstrate your leadership skills. Being confident, prepared and honing your skills is a great way to handle this.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

But in reality – the most useful skill that opened a lot of doors for me were my soft skills. 1) Do you have the admin skills to be an EA? Use the same buzz words, job descriptions, and skills they used in their job ad. I wanted a strong foundation in which to build my career because I had ZERO connections in Hollywood.