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Travel Planning in a Pandemic? Here’s What You Need to Know

All Things Admin

Here’s what you need to know about travel planning in 2021. Tap into your online networks to ask others what they are seeing and experiencing firsthand. © 2021 Julie Perrine International, LLC. But traveling during a pandemic has its own set of challenges that go above and beyond your normal travel planning procedures.

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Looking at This Year’s Successes as You Set Next Year’s Goals

All Things Admin

Your administrative career should not be left to chance. Career-minded administrative professionals don’t put their career on autopilot and cross their fingers, hoping things will work themselves out. Did you participate in any professional networking activities? • Did you learn any new skills? •

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COVID Came – We Waivered and then we Conquered

The Persistent Assistant

It is a week since we held the OPSA National Administrative Excellence Award – online! The Awards which are held annually in April during International Administrative Professionals week at the Birchwood Hotel include a wonderful buffet breakfast and all the glitz and glamour. We were so close.

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How to Improve Online Security In Your Remote Office Space

All Things Admin

So instead of using work computers on internal networks to manage documents and send basic email, our devices are now full-fledged collaboration hubs, reaching out over the internet to exchange data with countless different services. Consumer grade modems and routers are not the most secure bits of network gear.

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5 Steps to Creating Your Social Portfolio

All Things Admin

The biggest reason you need a social portfolio, in addition to your print and digital versions, is that it makes you easy to find in a sea of other administrative professionals. According to the 2021 Recruiter Nation Report, 68% of recruiters were using Facebook, 65% LinkedIn, 48% Twitter, 46% Instagram, and 35% YouTube.

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How to Implement Your Strategic Administrative Career Plan

All Things Admin

I also encourage you to store your crucial career files somewhere besides your work computer or network drives. © 2021 Julie Perrine International, LLC. You don’t want to chance IT wiping them out for some reason. And if you ever lose your job, the last place you want your only copy to be is on an inaccessible work computer.

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5 Steps to a Clean Inbox

All Things Admin

Even if you can get exceptions to the storage cap, it’s more efficient to save important emails to a shared network folder with your other project files. When you save (or copy/paste) an Outlook email message to your shared network folders, you can then open it just like you would any other file. Set Up Rules.