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What Are Soft Skills? 12 Examples to Benefit You Personally & Professionally

Success

For instance, a salesperson’s ability to communicate persuasively can lead to more successful client negotiations. For example, a project manager might use the soft skill of problem-solving to resolve unexpected issues during a project’s execution. Photo by Rido/Shutterstock.com The post What Are Soft Skills?

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Job descriptions for Personal Assistants – Merited or inherited?

Practically Perfect PA

Our jobs can be hard to quantify at times so it might be worthwhile starting off by keeping a time management log of all your duties over several days to get a full idea of your all-encompassing role. We expand productivity and are brand ambassadors for our bosses, company and profession. Risk Management. Stakeholder Management.

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Write The Best Job Descriptions In 7 Easy Steps | Free Templates

Recruit CRM

Here are three core pointers of a good job description: Explains the reality of the role Showcases the organisation's culture, and A bit of marketing for the company In short, a job description is used for a variety of reasons— starting from the most obvious, which is recruiting, determining salary ranges, creating job goals, job titles and more.

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Branching out – moving on from being an EA

Practically Perfect PA

For me, my career took a natural path from purely EA work to Events and Project Management a career and industry which I love. My various support roles had always had an element of events management to them, all be it on a smaller scale, but for me it stood out as something I loved. To my surprise, she agreed. Be a sponge.

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Branching out – moving on from being an EA

Practically Perfect PA

For me, my career took a natural path from purely EA work to Events and Project Management a career and industry which I love. My various support roles had always had an element of events management to them, all be it on a smaller scale, but for me it stood out as something I loved. To my surprise, she agreed. Be a sponge.

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Answering Reader Mail: Career Progression, Wearing Different Hats, and Realistic Expectations

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

This week’s question also comes from an international/non USA reader! I genuinely love the company I work for and have a great relationship with my executive. That is the only thing that is different between a regular admin/EA and one that works for a Fortune 500 company. They write. “Hi Paying dues is worth it for a reason.

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How To Invest In Yourself (And Why)

Brilliantly Better

I would like to say that it was a sudden enlightenment, an internal breakthrough which led me to an epiphany, but it wasn’t. Facts Analysis When you analyze facts, you leave away the internal “fog”. Maybe you think you’re a brilliant negotiator, but that may be just an inconsistent cloud in your ego. I know that first hand.

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