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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

Possessing it demonstrates expert-level mastery of the skills required to leverage systems like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. However, what they are really paying for is not the certificate itself—it’s the value a person can bring to the organization when they have these skills. What really matters is how you use those skills.

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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. Consult other PAs, your manager(s), and your organisation’s HR for advice in progressing your career development. There is no specific PA skills development.

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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!). In Good Company. Final Thoughts.

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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. I more or less work with the intangible things like managing his time, schedule, and delivering on his requests by carrying out actions he can't. As he's been interviewing everyone would ask him the same questions.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

If it is a project management position, prepare a project status review presentation or the like…you get the idea. Structure: This is like an elaborate version of your résumé, perhaps most easily done in PowerPoint. To prepare this, think in detail about how you can really contribute to the organization.

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Some People see Roadblocks -- Others see Hurdles.

Laughing all the Way to Work

I am part of the project management office at my company and I hear the term roadblocks all the time. Join us at the luxurious Palazzo Versace on the Gold Coast for an amazing end of year get away and your chance to network, learn and advance your skills in style! Where's the remote thingy for the PowerPoint?