Professional Assistant Blog

JULY 16, 2008

Are you trying to get that raise or promotion that you so well deserve? Home About Me Advertise Seminars for Professional Assistants By The Professional Assistant on Wednesday, July 16, 2008 Filed Under: Networking , Productivity A re you looking to improve your skills and catch up with the latest office trends ?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Telemarketing is my number one annoyance in advertising and as soon as I answer the phone and get that few seconds of dead air, that is my queue to hang up. Fax Blasts I remember someone from my IAAP Chapter asked me to fax the notice of our Chapter dinner to a list of about 60 companies to promote it. Oh, I agree. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 10, 2009

If you can prove yourself as a good worker you can go up through the ranks and because they already know how you work, they are more apt to promote you. The administrative position can be a springboard for a management position if you want to go in that direction and have the right educational background. 411 Look Up 411.ca

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 20, 2008

Some examples would be managing a company website, creating, editing and writing a company newsletter or creating promotional materials, invitations and brochures for marketing events. This can be a rewarding career change for those suited to this type of work.

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Professional Assistant Blog

MARCH 6, 2008

She has been here a little over 1 1/2 years and has recently been promoted to an Administrative Assistant. Currently there is a clerical staff person, sitting in a cubicle right across from me who has made my daily work experience miserable.

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Brilliantly Better

OCTOBER 18, 2010

Use social media functions with trust: retweet, like, promote. Most of the time, digital friendships last as long as the underlying hidden agenda’s of both parties last. You live in different time zones, you may have different interests, or different family lives. Start a dialogue. What can go wrong? This is sad.

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Men With Pens

JULY 14, 2010

You have many options: landline, cellular phone, texting, fax line (yeah, many people still fax), email, website contact form, Twitter direct message, LinkedIn message, Skype, and lots more. Marketing and promotions is an important part of any business. The key is to respond promptly. ACCEPTABILITY Earlier, I said you must be superior.

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Allwork

APRIL 22, 2024

Then you’re going to get your phone for the week. Thinking of the teenager example, if your room isn’t cleaned by Saturday at noon, you don’t get your phone for the week. I don’t have to have the phone agreement to clean my room because I want to live in a clean room. And it might be a simple system.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

I opened the phone book and signed up with every single one in town. That one unassuming, non-meaty, first temp gig got me my first CEO EA job and eventually my promotion to project manager down the road. Know your goal and work backwards and figure out a vague flexible timeline of goals and promotions needed.

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Brilliantly Better

JULY 17, 2010

I think that was also the day when I started to use my app as an excuse for not going out or as a standard answer at the phone. I can get pathological, I warned you… Frustration Level (0 – 100): 5 – That Quartz Core thing proved to be a little bit too time consuming, but in the end everything went well. Complicated.

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