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Job descriptions for Personal Assistants – Merited or inherited?

Practically Perfect PA

When the printer/scanner/fax breaks down I am ultimately the person who troubleshoots and fixes the machine in question. Financial Forecasting – Prepare invoices, reports, memos and financial statements. Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards – for e.g. Gifts and Entertainment Policy.

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Top Ten Ways Your Privacy is Threatened

Ian's Messy Desk

Millions of people post all sorts of personal information about themselves, their family and their friends on social networking sites without reviewing the privacy policies, modifying the privacy settings, or considering how this information can be used or misused by others. Faxing Personal Information. Privacy Legislation in Canada.

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A Day in the Life of an Admin

The Office Professionals Place

Their duties include (but are not limited to) answering and screening calls, meeting and greeting clients and customers, maintaining executives calendars, writing correspondence, generating reports, meeting planning, filing, travel arrangements, maintain client/customer data records, supervising others, and the list goes on.

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Effectively Deal with Anger in the Workplace

The Office Professionals Place

Report the person and the problem immediately. This incident should have been immediately reported to authorities and the problem and the passenger would have been dealt with accordingly. Look into purchasing an all-in-one fax, printer, and copier. When the computer is not in use put it in sleep mode.

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The E-tiquette of E-mail

Professional Assistant Blog

Your company may have a policy on how they want you to address people in external business e-mail. Your company may have a strict policy on what they want you to include in the signature line and what it should look like, but generally you would include your name, title, company name and address, telephone and fax number.

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10 Scariest Excuses to tell your supervisor when you call off work

The Office Professionals Place

“My dog ate the report.&# The Office Professionals Place Topics Communication (18) Development (5) Leadership (6) Productivity (10) Tips/Techniques (14) Workplace Humor (1) Workplace Mental Health (13) The Office Professionals Place Privacy Policy The privacy of our visitors to [link] is important to us. Got anymore?

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Daan van Rossum – CEO at FlexOS | Flex Work: The Key to Career Freedom.

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And so when you do it at a team level and you have all these teams basically having their own policy, their own team agreements, then it also works as a company. My first office didn’t have a copy machine or a fax or anything like that. People self report that they are more productive. When are we going to be at home?

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