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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

Success

For example, if you’re interested in a project management role, highlighting your time management and analytical thinking skills may be more important than focusing on customer service or creativity. If you have a mentor, discuss where your soft skills may be lacking and brainstorm ways to improve.

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What Are 5 Components of Emotional Intelligence & How Do They Shape Your Future?

Success

We hired one young man part time to manage our website. After hours, he stuck around to help mentor students in robotics. His positive outlook, internal motivation and camaraderie with the students proved so valuable that within three months, we adjusted our budgets to bring him on full time as a project manager.

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Ep 178: Lynn Walder on Detaching Your Worth from Your Work

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

‍ Lynn secured her undergraduate business degree with a triple major in International Business, Management and MIS (Management Information Systems) from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Lynn’s dog’s Instagram account – @elliethebostonbulldog. ABOUT LYNN. HELP ME, HELP YOU (MAKE THE PODCAST BETTER).

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Ep 164: Kathleen Gauden – Owner of The Virtual Assistant and Company

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

She took her Corporate EA skills and created a business managing very large estates (25,000 sq. She supports clients virtually as a Virtual Executive Assistant, Project Manager, Chief of Staff, Marketing Assistant, and Event Coordinator. foot homes) and much of her work was virtual. Several years ago, Kathleen went 100% virtual.

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5 Steps to Creating Your Digital Portfolio

All Things Admin

Portfolios are useful in interviews, at review time, and whenever you want to make a case for a promotion or raise. Project Management. A professional portfolio is necessary for every success-minded admin, whether you’re actively looking for a new position or perfectly content in your current role. Work Samples or Portfolio.

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Tips on transitioning your career

Practically Perfect PA

A PA is part office manager, part senior project manager and part psychic, all skills that are extremely transferable if you decide you would like steer yourself on to another career path. Finally, be confident – go into that interview as though you have been working in this sector your whole career.

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The Practically Perfect PA Advisory Panel

Practically Perfect PA

I have worked on reception, secretarial, event and project management teams during this time and had almost every title from Receptionist to Director of Administration. A former trainer, Lorraine’s role as an EA has grown into one of champion and mentor. Here is just one such interview with ES Magazine.

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