Office Dynamics
JANUARY 21, 2020
And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. She received the biggest salary of her lifetime with all kinds of perks. Being an excellent assistant is not just about PowerPoint and Excel. She is living it up.
Eat Your Career
JUNE 12, 2017
Recommended Resource: Straight Talk About Salaries (Recorded Webinar). Possessing it demonstrates expert-level mastery of the skills required to leverage systems like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint. Possessing it demonstrates expert-level mastery of the skills required to leverage systems like Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
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Professional Assistant Blog
NOVEMBER 23, 2007
Discuss your skill set, experience and abilities in a confident manner. What kind of salary are you looking for? Another suggestion is to find out the salary range that was posted for this job and use that. Why should we hire you? Try to relay this type of question to some part of your past jobs.
Bonnie Low Kramen
MAY 17, 2021
On the other hand, I hear from assistants that job descriptions are obsolete, salary bands are slow to move, and job titles do not reflect the level of responsibility for the role. As long as someone is a hard worker who is trustworthy, Emily says she can teach all the other “power skills” of communication and technology. Speak Up! “We
Success
DECEMBER 20, 2023
I can train overseas team members to become skilled, prompt engineers and help them leverage tools like ChatGPT and Grammarly to produce work that’s 95% done. You could become an AI wizard and “recession proof” your current job or use the skills you develop with AI to help you find any job you want.
Professional Assistant Blog
DECEMBER 4, 2007
Remember that you are there to do your job because you have the skills and qualities that your manager hired you for. Try following these 4 simple steps and you will find that your work performance will increase and hopefully, so will your salary! Don’t let your work performance suffer.
Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant
OCTOBER 29, 2010
One of the best ways to get a raise is to try to ask for more responsibility and increase your skills and talents much like you did. You also have more negotiating leverage for a better salary and projects. And constantly learning new skills and gaining a wide range of knowledge is vital to getting to the next step.
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