Archive for Archive for February, 2008
For Beginners: Keyboarding
I will be writing some posts especially for beginners in the clerical field. Helpful tips and what to learn to progress in an administrative career. These will be posted to the category For Beginners and will include For Beginners in the title.
For those just starting out in the clerical field, I cannot stress [...]
You may not read minds, but convince your boss you can!
Which is my way of saying…anticipate your boss’s needs. That may seem to be self-evident, but it’s something we, as administrative assistants, forget sometimes.
Every afternoon before leaving the office, check your boss’s calendar for the next day. If he has a meeting on a topic, make sure the appropriate files are on his [...]
Data collecting: the Backbone of a Good Assistant
Back when I was a department secretary (we won’t talk about how long ago that was), I had not yet realized the importance of collecting snippets of information about people and things. Then one day our long time receptionist announced she was retiring, and I was tasked with entering all the information from her [...]
Travel Arrangements to Wow Any Boss, Part Three: International Travel
While international travel requires all the same steps as domestic travel, it holds some unique pitfalls of which the administrative assistant should be aware.
Time zone issues, specifically date issues. It is not unusual when traveling to another continent that you will leave on one date and arrive on another date. Don’t make the [...]
Travel Arrangements to Wow Any Boss, Part Two: The Itinerary
Think about the last time you were traveling, how many pieces of paper you had to keep up with: ticket, boarding pass, hotel confirmation, rental car confirmation, upgrade confirmation. Wouldn’t it be great to have all those things on one sheet of paper? That’s where making a great travel itinerary comes in!
I [...]
Travel Arrangements to Wow any Boss, Part One
When I first started interviewing for Admin Asst positions, I didn’t put travel arrangements on my resume. I mean, any idiot can make travel arrangements, can’t they? But then on every interview, I was asked about my ability to handle travel arrangements. I finally figured out that there is an art to [...]
