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How To Get Promoted at Work

Have you ever wondered what your boss really thinks while greeting you in the elevator? You’re not alone! But to get to that answer, it is not advisable to go and ask him directly. The following tips can help you to read his thoughts and use the information to climb a few steps higher on the corporate ladder.   Bosses will look at your profile Every time you post something on Facebook, ask yourself would you like that post to be seen by your boss. Be careful with the information you share on social networks. You would not like your ...

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How Spanish Translation Can Become a Door Opening Skill for PAs

Personal assistants exist in a unique position of authority, working closely with senior team members and directors, while taking control and responsibility of numerous tasks. Beyond administrative duties, the workload of a PA can require a host of organisational and practical skills. But even with this abundance of skills, a personal assistant can still become more skilled. Certain abilities and qualifications will open doors to more niche and better paid PA roles. One way of accessing new employment opportunities is to become proficient in a foreign language. According to translation service company London Translations, Spanish is currently the second most ...

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How to Organise the Perfect Office Christmas Party on a Budget

Budgets and Christmas parties don’t naturally go hand in hand, but for smaller companies finding the balance between staff appreciation and expenses is a fine one. A Christmas party is an important event for team bonding and boosting staff morale. This means that whatever you provide it needs to be memorable for the right reasons.   Here are a few tips to organising the perfect office party on a budget:    Music: hiring a band VS an iPod playlist For bigger companies, or ones who can afford to hire a band to make the night extra special, there are numerous ...

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A PA’s Guide to Confidentiality

As a PA or EA, your ability to handle confidential subjects, issues, emails and documents is essential. And increasingly, PAs are asked in job interviews how they approach the issue of confidentiality. This guide offers insider knowledge that will help you to handle all things confidential with confidence.   Confidential emails and digital files The issue of confidentiality is especially pertinent when it comes to handling emails and electronic documents. You’ll probably have access to your manager’s emails, and in most cases, you’re probably the first port-of-call in reading them and responding on their behalf.     Here’s how you ...

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Organise the Perfect Office Christmas Party

  Being shouldered with the responsibility of organising your office Christmas party can often be a thankless task and you are under huge pressure to make sure everyone enjoys their one big office day/night out of the year. How you go about organising the food, refreshments and entertainment for a Christmas party will depend on the tastes of the people coming and the organisational culture of the office, but there are some basic rules that you must follow to make the party memorable for all the right reasons and to avoid it being remembered for the wrong reasons. However,with some key skills you ...

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10 Tips and Tricks for Keeping Your inbox Organised

You know the feeling of frustration when your inbox gets cluttered and you can´t find a thing. If you receive hundreds of e-mails each week, you know how easy your inbox can get messy and how difficult it can be to make it organised again.   Here are 10 steps on how to keep your inbox clean and organised:   Delete. Delete. Whenever you see an e-mail from an unknown sender, look at the Subject line. If you see unknown and funny characters with no sense at all, the e-mail is spam and you should delete it immediately.   Use ...

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8 Steps to Managing a Crisis at Work

Work is a place like every other and like good things, bad things can happen as well. The worst thing you can do when crisis happens is to blame someone else. Even if that someone is to blame. When things go downhill, it can be the right time for you to prove your skills, resourcefulness, compassion and calmness. These four qualities can make the difference between an employee who does his job and an employee who is leader material. But to take responsibility does not mean that you should dig deep and hide silently while waiting for your computer to ...

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Psychological Tricks to Help You Get a New Job

You are finally there sitting in front of the interviewer and now you want to talk about all you have achieved so far. But wait! You must not forget that no matter how much skills and experience you have, your future job does also depend on impression, gut feelings and instinctual reactions. So, let us talk psychology!   Get hired using the fruits of psychological research on interview technique.   The most important predictor of who will be offered the job was a magical and mysterious quality: the pleasantness and likability of the candidate!   What were the behaviors that communicated ...

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Tips to Impress in Your Video Interview

First off, let’s start by defining what a video interview is. Video is the latest tool used by recruiters and employers to screen and interview job seekers in the first, second and third stages of the screening and hiring process. Whether you’re participating in an in-person or virtual interview your goal is the same — to make a lasting impression that earns you a subsequent interview. Yet virtual interviews present unique challenges, including use of technology, management of setting, and the ability to effectively show enthusiasm and interest, sell your qualifications, and send the right “vibe” in the absence of ...

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