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Strategies for Advancing Your Career Outside of Administrative Services

Office Dynamics

The skills you gain as an administrative professional can easily transfer to other roles. For example, here are a few of the most common roles that may be a great fit for assistants, depending on your skills and interests: Project Manager. Whatever skills you’ll need in your next role, find ways to develop them now.

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Are Professional Certifications Worth It?

Eat Your Career

The simple answer is this: I am a firm believer in the importance of lifelong learning. Possessing it demonstrates expert-level mastery of the skills required to leverage systems like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Some people like learning purely for the sake of personal growth. That’s how you earn the rewards.

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Career development for Assistants: 5 common problems and how to solve them

Practically Perfect PA

So we asked our attendees what they thought about their career paths, skills development, performance reviews , and any other developmental aspects of their jobs. Look out for and take advantage of networking events and skills development wherever possible. The PA learning curve can be very steep, and the role can be demanding.

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5 Reasons Why Office Admins are the New Power Job

Office Dynamics

Whether it’s finding the right caterer, meeting global counterparts from international office locations or brushing off your creative skills to whip up a spiffy PowerPoint presentation, you love tackling projects outside of your job scope (and even get excited at the opportunity!). Always In the Know.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

Yes, I have taken job-specific software classes, classes to learn organizational and people skills, and took computer certification classes which I was not aware I needed coming right out of high school. Again, these are skills I was able to cultivate on the job. Only the usual Microsoft skills. No, just experience.

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The Pitfalls of Working in the Entertainment Industry

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It got to the point where he realized he had no "real world business skills" that were universal to all businesses. Before she got too comfortable and old, she thought she needed to leave entertainment and learn what else was out there. As he's been interviewing everyone would ask him the same questions.

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Tailored Procedures Documentation: Tools and Techniques for Every Learning Style

All Things Admin

One of the more labor-intensive procedures my team and I use covers how we add new courses to our learning management system. Asana or Teamwork : For project management with detailed documentation capabilities. But not everyone learns the same way. Word, OneNote, or PowerPoint : For audio recording tools.