Advancement
With the new year just around the corner, it’s time to think about how to make the upcoming year your best yet. By making a few changes to how you approach your career, you’ll be well on your way to making 2015 a banner year.
Some people just seem to have that “it factor”—the effortless charm and intelligence to seem at ease in all situations. How do they do it?
Attorney and Internet marketer Mark Olson offers these tips for making professional connections via social media.
Business conferences: Some people love them, but others find them stressful, intimidating and overwhelming. If you’re in the latter group, writer and editor Sarah Todd has tips to help you out.
The holiday season can be stressful enough without all the etiquette worries that can also come with it. Knowing how to act in situations that combine socializing with your career can be tricky, so we checked in with a few etiquette experts to help remind you what you should—and shouldn’t—do.
Before you can step into a leadership role, you must first demonstrate to the higher-ups that you’re prepared for the next level. But, how do you do that?
In business, trust can make you a better worker, a better manager and more valuable to your customers. Here are tips to help you build trust.
Jasmine Freeman, Vice President at Office Dynamics (@OfficeDynamics), recently shared, on her blog, her top 10 “must follow” admin resources on Twitter.
Heather Huhman, founder and president of Come Recommended, suggests taking these steps a month before you decide to pop the question.
Research shows overconfidence can raise your status even if you don’t have the skills to back it up. A paper on the subject by Jessica Kennedy of Vanderbilt University and Cameron Anderson and Don Moore of UC Berkeley attempts to explain this phenomenon.
Bonnie Low-Kramen, author of Be the Ultimate Assistant, explains six things that make assistants good at their jobs and irreplaceable to their employers.
In today’s marketplace, soft skills—intangible personality traits and qualities such as organization, flexibility and confidence—separate an exceptional employee from an average one.
A survey released by Manpower notes changes in the role of administrative assistants over the past five to 10 years.
