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The World Economic Forum Expects 14 Million Jobs Will Be Lost In The Next 5 Years 

Allwork

What’s going on: The World Economic Forum (WEF) released its 2023 Future of Jobs report – which surveyed Chief Executive Officers, Chief Human Resources Officers, and Chief Strategy Officers from all over the world. The report covers around 45 countries, and around 11.3

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The Post Office Expanding Use of Contingent Workers

Small Business Labs

Postal Service in the Wall Street Journal.  According to a labor report written by the Post Office in 2011 , they are looking to grow their contingent workforce to 30% of their total workforce by 2015.   The driver behind this is labor costs are 80% of the postal service's total costs.

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Executive Assistant Best Job of 2012

Office Dynamics

News & World Report By Miriam Weiner. While the basic duties still stand—taking messages, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings—executive assistants are also often put in charge of supervising other clerical staff, reviewing incoming memos, and even conducting research and preparing statistical reports.

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"Excel"ing to Create Subtotal Row Totals

Professional Assistant Blog

They ask you to create subtotals for the latest sales report, but want you to only send them the revised spreadsheet showing the subtotal rows. One of my managers wanted me to use our sales tracking software to create the sales report for a particular product. I was able to put the entire report together within a matter of minutes.

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Need To Create a PDF? Don't Have the Software? Don't Panic!

Professional Assistant Blog

Your manager asks you to create a report of some sort and wants you to send it to a client, but making sure that they cannot manipulate the information. There is a simple way of getting this type of report to anyone without having to use Adobe Acrobat. Now you can e-mail the report to the client without any problems.

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Overworked? Unload Your Workload to a Freelancer!

Professional Assistant Blog

Whether you need help fixing up that company website, proofreading a report that your boss needs right away or even compiling reports that your boss gave you today and is asking for you to complete it yesterday. Hiring a freelancer can have great benefits. Truths of a Shy Writer can help you when you’re in a bind.

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How to Write Effective E-mails

Professional Assistant Blog

You want to tell your co-worker that you need to get a report from them within the hour. Yet you go on and on about how you want it to look, going into great detail of the type of report you want. If you chatter away in your e-mails and are trying to get your point across, this information will be quite juicy for your fingertips.

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