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Tips on transitioning your career

Practically Perfect PA

A PA is part office manager, part senior project manager and part psychic, all skills that are extremely transferable if you decide you would like steer yourself on to another career path. Finally, be confident – go into that interview as though you have been working in this sector your whole career.

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Certification Programs for Administrative Professionals

Jen Lawrence

I’ve taken everything from project management courses to writing workshops. But honestly, how do you measure someone’s proficiency in office management or business communication? A manager can call for references or give a practical during the interview. World Class Assistant. Why get certified?

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

Wright, Author So Youve Got the Job Interview - Now What? This morning the phone rang - youve got an interview! Obviously you really want the job, and to get this job, youve got to really shine in the interview. Here are some ideas that can really make your first interview different and stand out from the typical interview.

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Lisa Gevelber Founder of Grow With Google | Transforming The Economy Through Education

Allwork

support specialists or user experience designers, project managers or e-commerce and digital marketing managers as well. And what’s exciting about that is all of those career fields are not only really in demand and projected to grow their outstanding careers from a from an economic perspective as well.

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The Pitfalls of Working in the Entertainment Industry

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

He had risen in his career to the mid-level management and has almost been doing his job for 10 years at other well-known companies. As he's been interviewing everyone would ask him the same questions. I'm more of a project manager, point person, gate keeper, office manager, problem-solver, and overall go-to person.

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The Path to Chief of Staff Whitepaper

Admin Awards

“In preparing for this role, what helped me was being an EA first,” says Gaughan, who holds a bachelor’s degree in sports management. “You learn so much about the company as you’re working with different parts of the organization, and that’s more beneficial than anything a class can teach you.”

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Get Rid of the Big Fat Lies -- and the Little Skinny Ones -- on Your Resume

On The Job

I'm very excited to have this opportunity to interview with Blubber, Inc." You also say that you had the project management job with XYZ Corp. But their records show you worked as an office assistant, and never headed up a $2 million project." "Yes, I wasn't specifically the project manager, but I was pretty darn close."

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