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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

Second Paragraph – Features : Talk about what you have to offer, and summarize your experience, qualifications, and skills, as well as their importance to the position you’re seeking. Third Paragraph – Action : Suggest the course of action you’d like the reader to take, such as schedule a phone call or interview. Showcase your skills.

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10 Apps for Administrative Productivity and Organization

Office Dynamics

Chat by phone or video conferencing, record meetings, and share screens to keep each other up to date, even if you’re continents apart! It not only lets you check the time in any part of the world, it also shows you color-coded business hours in your specified time zone, making it easier to schedule meeting times.

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Make a Connection with Vacation

Office Dynamics

I tried my best to not be tethered to my phone, emails, texting and more. As you view everything that has come across your desk whether they are phone calls, new assignments from your executive or your own project work: Assess all of it. Take business cards. Keep in mind that you can only do so much in 8 hours.

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Administrative/Clerical: 5 Ways to Make Your Workspace an Oasis

Office Dynamics

Administrative and clerical positions require focus, diligence, and superior workplace organization skills to keep the office running at full speed, but a workplace that feels impersonal or distracting can disrupt productivity and efficiency. Workplace organization helps ease the burden of a busy day.

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Podcast 105: Desk triage

Clutter Coach

Becoming skilled at triage (AKA, ruthless decision making) means more of your time and energy goes to the important stuff. Your to-do list can be in a notebook, on a pad of paper, a whiteboard, on your phone; wherever you will be most likely to look at it. Triage breaks down into three categories, according to our friends at Wikipedia.

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Call off the cheerleaders!

Practically Perfect PA

That means leveraging a skill we Brits have in spades: subtlety. They see what’s written on your business card. Sometimes they’ll pick up clues via auditory channels : They speak to you on the phone. Blowing your own trumpet should be much less obvious than that. They read a report or memo you’ve authored.

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30 Minutes to Less Clutter

Clutter Coach

Becoming skilled at triage (AKA, ruthless decision making) means more of your time and energy goes to the important stuff. Your to-do list can be in a notebook, on a pad of paper, in your PDA, a whiteboard, on your phone; wherever you will be most likely to look at it. For each reminder, create a to-do.

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