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How to Showcase Work Samples in Your Professional Portfolio: Travel Planning Example

All Things Admin

Your portfolio should include your resume, letters of recommendation, awards and recognitions, past performance reviews, and certifications. Travel planning skills can be challenging to showcase in your professional portfolio, but they are something many employers and executives are looking for in an admin. Here is an example: [link].

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Preparing for a Smooth Transition: 4 Tips for Retiring Administrative Professionals

All Things Admin

Maybe you’ll travel, spend more time with family, or volunteer for organizations near and dear to you. The more you know about your successor, and the more your executive can share with you about their resume, work history, personality, etc., You’ve been the finder of lost things, the solver of problems, and the office go-to.

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7 Goals to Invigorate Your Career in the New Year

All Things Admin

Plus, professional associations look amazing on your resume! Take another look at your resume. © 2022 Julie Perrine International, LLC. Go back to school. Refresh your administrative brand. Whether you know it or not, you have an administrative brand. And now is the perfect time to refresh that brand!

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Stand Out at Your Next Performance Review With a Professional Portfolio!

All Things Admin

Your professional portfolio should contain a combination of these things: An updated copy of your resume. And this is a copy of a template I designed for travel planning. © 2022 Julie Perrine International, LLC. But for the purposes of this article, we’re just going to use the general term of professional portfolio.

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Getting your foot in the door.

Laughing all the Way to Work

If a more experienced assistant comes alongside you and provides mentoring - dont refuse it. She said it wouldnt look good on my resume if I was seen as a job hopper. So if you want to get your foot in the door as an admin, there is no shame in that and it will be valuable training for whatever career you ultimately choose.

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How to Work for A Difficult Boss

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

As I mentioned, I'm interviewing for a very high profile position next week for a Chairman of a major international company. Again, I want to learn how to cope with it for my career (this is a major position for a resume) because I know it's him and not me. I ended up hearing about the other girl who got the job because word travels.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Any recruiter who sees your resume will silently wonder the following questions. Whether based on your cover letter or resume, recruiters only take 6 seconds to see if you are match. If the fit isn’t close enough, they toss or file your resume. Just being in their presence means being informally mentored by osmosis.