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5 Ways to Include Soft Skills on Your Resume

Success

For example, if you’re interested in a project management role, highlighting your time management and analytical thinking skills may be more important than focusing on customer service or creativity. If you have a mentor, discuss where your soft skills may be lacking and brainstorm ways to improve.

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Branching out – moving on from being an EA

Practically Perfect PA

If you are competent, keen and have a good relationship with your boss or bosses you can gain exposure to myriad aspects of business and gain insight into projects some seemly senior colleagues may never gain access to. HR, Project Management, Accounts, Training or Events. Get a mentor. Be a sponge. Be proactive.

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Branching out – moving on from being an EA

Practically Perfect PA

If you are competent, keen and have a good relationship with your boss or bosses you can gain exposure to myriad aspects of business and gain insight into projects some seemly senior colleagues may never gain access to. HR, Project Management, Accounts, Training or Events. Get a mentor. Be a sponge. Be proactive.

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Professional Development for Executive Assistants

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You’ll find them engaging in project management, process management, strategic research, reporting and a range of dynamic, managerial functions. How many people in your network were at the same course or development opportunity at some point? Project management. Building strong networks. Leadership skills.

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An Admin’s Cheat Sheet to Business Terminology

All Things Admin

Thankfully, the company I worked for provided an employee training certification course that introduced all of the principles of insurance, and made sure we could all speak and understand the language. AGILE – This is an iterative and collaborative approach to project management that emphasizes flexibility and responsiveness to change.

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Career development for Assistants: 5 common problems and how to solve them

Practically Perfect PA

Consider going into related fields that will use many of the skills you already have, such as Project Management, or a role within your organisation that you have learned about through your PA work. For instance, PAs could sign up for courses that would allow them to give internal training on software such as PowerPoint.

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How to Consistently Come Up With Better Ideas

On The Job

He’s also worked with companies like Amazon and Nike and mentored various startup founders. I told him, ‘I love you on the project management side, but your communications suck.’ I told him I was sending him to a six-week Dale Carnegie course and you know why?

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