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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

Professional Assistant Blog

Some examples would be managing a company website, creating, editing and writing a company newsletter or creating promotional materials, invitations and brochures for marketing events. They each took the initiative to get appropriate training and education to better equip them in the areas they were interested in.

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Answering Your Questions

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Or they will say they want people to be in the training program or how previous assistants have gotten promoted after a couple of years if they were the right fit. They also travel a lot all over the world. There are those bosses that will promote you and help you out as much as possible.

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How To Avoid Being A Toxic Person: 13 Simple Tips

Brilliantly Better

Don’t Gossip Talking behind other people’s back is like putting your exhaustion pipe to somebody else door, while pretending you’re looking in a different direction. ’ Even people who avoid gossiping don’t realise that talking bad about yourself makes you believe it eventually. Great post. Stay Motivated!

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Are You A Valid Person?

Brilliantly Better

But after working a few years in the traditional media world – which, by the way, is not a very friendly place to be, always challenged, filled with gossip and back talking – I felt the need for a change. What’s funny about getting that job is that I never had any specific training for that. You validate his efforts.

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Why the 80/20 Rule Could Make You Less Productive

Brilliantly Better

Small tasks that may imply you are spending your time are constant mail checking, gossiping with your work mates, being in your kids play checking your iPhone. You should not spend your time in small tasks: Spending is here the key word. You should not spend time, never. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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Why the 80/20 Rule Could Make You Less Productive

Brilliantly Better

Small tasks that may imply you are spending your time are constant mail checking, gossiping with your work mates, being in your kids play checking your iPhone. You should not spend your time in small tasks: Spending is here the key word. You should not spend time, never. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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What Can Argentine Tango Teach You About Brilliant Blogging?

Brilliantly Better

The Attitude: The tango community can be quite the political, social, and gossip mega circle. She has a love for personal expression, writing, reading, traveling, tango and yoga. It is easy to rate and rank the dancers and choose only to dance with the best leaders or followers. I have stared doing such activities in ly life too.

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