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Are Professional Certifications Worth It?

Eat Your Career

Recommended Resource: Straight Talk About Salaries (Recorded Webinar). Possessing it demonstrates expert-level mastery of the skills required to leverage systems like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. For example, a recent OfficeTeam survey of the administrative profession found that employers pay up to 8% more on average (in the U.S.)

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The 4 Most Difficult Interview Questions

Professional Assistant Blog

Discuss your skill set, experience and abilities in a confident manner. What kind of salary are you looking for? Another suggestion is to find out the salary range that was posted for this job and use that. Try to relay this type of question to some part of your past jobs. Try to give a range, never give a fixed figure.