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5 Administrative Assistant Skills That Add the Most Value

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Knowing the three T’s of the industry — terminology, trends and technology — and being able to articulate them on your administrative resume means that even as a new hire, you will begin to contribute immediately. Knowing how to run virtual meetings, organize newsletters and create PowerPoint presentations puts you a cut above the rest.

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Standard Operating Procedures: Tips for Creating Business Systems | Office Organization & Office Efficiency | OfficeArrow

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Checklists ensure that all steps or actions occur, not necessarily in a specific order (though that can be part of the process), but rather just that they are completed, while a template is an established pattern - form letters, resume designs - that you can use over and over to produce the same result.

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We don't know what we don't know

Laughing all the Way to Work

Administrative newsletters or bulletin boards where you can post tips or suggestions is a good way to learn. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? If you are part of an administrative team you can use your meetings to share knowledge with each other or give tips on something new you have discovered. Dealing in real time.

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We live in an Acronym Happy World.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I recently received an e-newsletter from Jane Watson regarding Acronyms and Initialisms , which I thought was timely and wanted to share with you. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? It has become such a common initialism that it is recognized immediately and everyone knows what it is. Minute taking made easier.

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Keep your Inbox running on empty

Laughing all the Way to Work

I get internal newsletters and other information-type e-mails so I have a folder called News and dump everything like that in there until I have a chance to go back and read it or delete it. Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint? Makes my life simpler. But what about the other stuff? ► February (5) We did it Canada!