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Why The Administrative Profession Is A Career Of Choice

In honor of Administrative Professionals Day, I want to share my thoughts on being an executive or administrative assistant. When people tell me, “Anyone can do that job,” it bothers me. It tells me that person doesn’t really know what it takes to be a great assistant. Being in the administrative profession is a career of choice.

I hear it from both sides of the desk. I hear assistants talk…

Just the Savvy Ones. Recognizing Career Love.

Author: Kemeia MK Foley, CAP-OM

It’s Administrative Professionals Week 2016.

Fantabulous.

I can think of no better way to celebrate than to acknowledge the spirit of the celebratory week than to share why I get so fired up about this profession.

Here are the top ten reasons Why I love being in this profession.

I love lists. The admin profession is BUILT for people that love list-making.

I get to…

Administrative Professionals Week Instagram Challenge #AdminProud

We are having a ball with you this month as you have engaged in the #AdminBlogathon daily with some really incredible comments, questions, challenges and connection points. We are more than thrilled with this event and hope that you have been as well. Are you finding useful skills throughout the posts that you can apply at work?

  We appreciate you and we are really excited to kick off…

3 Tips for Organizing Your Executive & Team Members

By Julie Perrine

You can’t make others work the way you work.

This is the first thing you have to accept if you want to help someone, such as your executive or team member, get and stay organized, is chances are the person you’re trying to help doesn’t have the same style preferences as you do. But if you’re willing to learn a person’s preferences, and not foist your own on him or her, you can…

Use this assessment for assistants as a tool to measure your skill level.

Several years ago I was preparing for my first annual review with my new executive, Joan Burge, Founder and CEO of Office Dynamics International. I wanted to be ready for anything when we sat down together to discuss my progress and my skill set as her Chief Executive Assistant.

As I was looking for some ideas on how to…