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Warning! Warning! Incoming text message.

Laughing all the Way to Work

Here is some common-sense etiquette: Screen your calls: Subscribe to call display. However, I think our etiquette hasnt caught up with the technology. My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career. I usually snap my fingers and say "Hey, over here!"

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Thinking Outside the Job Description Box

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Administrative Assistants have a list of things they specialize in including business writing, proofreading, minute taking, meeting planning, travel agent, desktop publishing, editing, public relations and client liaison to name a few.

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Welcome to Canada, Mr. President.

Laughing all the Way to Work

What is the proper etiquette when addressing or writing to a President? If you ever have an opportunity to meet him, you should call him Mr. President or Sir and if you are writing correspondence you would write Dear Mr. Like everything else nowadays, if you want answers to just about anything -- Google it.

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Just a secretary.

Laughing all the Way to Work

There are many teachers in my extended family and it seemed like something I could do well, but our family did not have any money to further my education and I became a secretary instead. My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Laughing All the Way to Work: A Survival Blog for Today's.

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Posted by Patricia Robb at 6:13 PM Labels: Administrative Assistant , etiquette for addressing officials , professional assistant Reactions: 2comments: Carol Bory said. My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career.

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Getting your foot in the door.

Laughing all the Way to Work

She saw the importance of this training to help her daughter know the workings of an office from the bottom up and the office benefitted from her educational training. The administrative position can be a springboard for a management position if you want to go in that direction and have the right educational background.

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We don't know what we don't know

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have always been a believer in sharing ideas and have received my best education from other assistants. My opinions are based on experience, education, trial and error and blunders and bloopers made throughout my life and career. Here are some ways I have found can help: The web is a wonderful tool for sharing.