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So You Want to Take a Break from Your Career—Here’s What You Need to Consider

Success

In the absence of travel, daily commutes and the culture of busyness, many employees were finally able to fully engage in self-reflection to determine if their job, company and path truly aligned with their overall interests. But real life, with its monthly bills and gaps in resumes, requires more careful thought. Upskill… then update.

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

All Things Admin

Whether you’re searching for a new job, making a case for a promotion or raise, showcasing your skills during your annual review, or simply want to be in a position to take advantage of opportunities that may come your way, a professional portfolio is an invaluable tool for any administrative professional.

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

All Things Admin

A professional portfolio is an accurate visual representation of who you are, what you’ve done, and the skills you possess. My latest book, Prove Your Skills! 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.

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A Conversation with Joan

Office Dynamics

How better to share the conference experience than a conversation with the creator herself – The professional, personable, and mentor to many, Joan Burge! A: Believe it or not, most of my mentoring came from executives; not peers. I do remember one time when an executive assistant mentored me. Initiative is very important.

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Tim Leberecht of The House of Beautiful Business | Making Business More Human

Allwork

My my friend and mentor Priya Parker, who wrote this wonderful book, The Art of Gathering, always says if everybody is. There’s going to be a big skills shortage coming up, isn’t there? So there’s going to be a need to to reskill, to upskill, to gain all these new skills, to coexist with with machines.

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Getting your foot in the door.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Although I was fearful to make the move and doubted my abilities, the transition has been relatively easy to make and more suited to what I am skilled to do. 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.

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Ep 242: Nicki Cave on Managing a Team of Assistants and Finding Happiness in Your Work

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

She mentors, trains, and coaches EA/AAs across the region. But someone had talked, came to our school and talked about executive secretarial school, and it was a trade school and it’s like, well, maybe I’ll, you know, those skills would be great going into college. Based on their skill set and their level?