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5 Steps to Creating Your Digital Portfolio

All Things Admin

It’s an easy way to share your resume, work samples, credentials, and anything else that you want to showcase about your professional life. Another perk is that a digital portfolio can include links, downloadable files, and audio and video components that are difficult or impossible to incorporate into a print version. Certifications.

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How To Hire And Manage Freelancers, According To Experts

Allwork

Ask for referrals (and work samples). Present them with situations to see how they think through problems. Develop a file-sharing system. Slowly introduce them to the team and clients. Give them a few paid projects first to see how they do. Remember, relationships go both ways. Share buyer personas and brand/style guides.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

They don’t have an updated resume, a professional portfolio of work samples, or a social media presence. Go to your human resources department and ask to see your employee file so you can write down all of the job titles, dates, and salary details for each position you’ve held with your current company. Writing/communication samples.

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How to keep your business plan fresh

Ian's Messy Desk

Present your business ideas clearly and stick to the facts: incorporate market studies, benchmark reports and sales projections. If you want lenders or investors to take your business plan seriously, make sure the format is appropriate for your audience and look into different templates and sample business plans. Filing It Away.

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Be An Unforgettable Speaker – Organization Techniques That Make You Easy to Work With

Stephanie LH Calahan

As a speaker you have a number of things to juggle -- proposals, marketing collateral, networking conversations, presentation material, contracts, travel, etc.  Audio/visual checklist, Press release samples, Intros and outtros. Sample tweets and facebook updates promoting you. Make it about more than your presentation

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Microsoft Powerpoint: The Bumblebee's 3 most useful PPT add-ins

BioTeams

PPT to Video converts powerpoint files into videos in all the main formats including AVI, WMV, MPEG, MP4, MOV and is a great way of creating a video quickly and cheaply before you upload it to Youtube or Vimeo. iSpring converts your powerpoint presentations into flash videos which you can share on the web. iSpring (free and paid).

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10 E-mail Etiquette Pet Peeves and How to Handle Them

Office Dynamics

Here’s another sampling of readers’ complaints – and how you can prevent or rectify matters. The “oops” factor: If you need more than two paragraphs to cover your topic, you’re better off using the phone, or attaching a Word* file. Getting a few items is fine – but who wants an email with a dozen files attached?”.

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