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

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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

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. You can — just as long as you include this complete blurb with it: Julie Perrine, CAP-OM, is the founder and CEO of All Things Admin, providing training, mentoring and resources for administrative professionals worldwide.

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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. But for the purposes of this article, we’re just going to use the general term of professional portfolio. Cover letters. Letters of recommendation. Work samples.

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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.

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

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My my friend and mentor Priya Parker, who wrote this wonderful book, The Art of Gathering, always says if everybody is. actually to detect or to basically filter resumes and analyze resumes from applicants and very quickly reskill them to software developers or AI engineers. Like what is what does the organization stand for?

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