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Hard Skills vs. Soft Skills: What’s the Difference and Which Do I Need to Build?

Success

Job-seekers acquire these through education, training and experience. Attend workshops and seminars. In fact, the two are so intertwined, that soft skills training has become highly valued by most institutions. Hard skills are measurable Hard skills stand out due to their measurable, easily identifiable nature.

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Ep 199: Sarah Howson on Recruiting Red Flags, Resumes, and Networking

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Sarah and I chat about her career journey, navigating life challenges while at work, red flags in the recruitment process, networking as an assistant, tips for updating your resume, and stepping out of your comfort zone. Including our all-day, online leadership workshop at leaderassistantlive.com/workshop. LEADERSHIP QUOTE.

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Focusing on Providing Exceptional Service as an Administrative Professional

Office Dynamics

Whether you are or are not planning a job/company change tracking your projects, career education, extra duties, and tasks learned (or expanded) should be added to your resume/ career portfolio. Resume/portfolio updates should go hand in hand with your yearly evaluation process; supporting professional and personal advancement.

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7 Goals to Invigorate Your Career in the New Year

All Things Admin

Attend a training event or workshop. Training events, workshops, and webinars abound! We have a list of more than 60 training sessions on our Training on Demand page , and our AdminPro Training VIP Pass offers training on a variety of different topics. Take another look at your resume.

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Resumes That Will Land You a Great Job!

Office Dynamics

It’s a tool to help you create a better resume – includes video, pictures and a portfolio of your best work samples. For those of you who know me, I’ve had participants in my World Class Assistant workshop create a hard-copy Career Portfolio. Tags: Admin Assistant Training Career Management Technology. Check out Visual CV.

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What Assistant Certification Courses Are Best For You?

Office Dynamics

This proves assistants are getting serious about their career and training and HR departments are valuing continued education for this role. Second, I believe in all training, learning, and education. Then I focus in on whether the interviewee has taken workshops or classes in the administrative profession.

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Ep 158: Candice Bozarth on How to Know When It’s Time to Move On

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

RESOURCE – Candice mentions The Assistant’s Guide to Crafting the Perfect Resume online course, and you can sign up for the course at resume.assistantsguide.com. Including our all-day, online leadership workshop at leaderassistantlive.com/workshop. LEADERSHIP QUOTES. THE LEADER ASSISTANT PREMIUM MEMBERSHIP.

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