1-Minute Strategies: September ’15
Organize your smartphone apps in one fell swoop … Create a positive impression with voice mail … Make a not-to-do list.
Category: Career
Demand for admins in health care rising
As organizations transition to electronic medical records and deal with the upcoming coding conversion from ICD-9 to ICD-10, they’re looking for coding and health information management professionals as well. Here are three more health care admin roles for you to consider.
The changing role of the admin
Administrative workers took a particularly hard hit during the recession, writes Bryce Covert for New Republic. Nearly 1.7 million administrative support positions were lost between 2007 and 2013, and unlike earlier recessions, these jobs did not return as the economy rebounded. Instead, professionals are more likely to answer their own phones and manage their own calendars …
What are the most hated office tasks?
If you work in your company’s front office, chances are your least favorite administrative task is preparing and sending office mail. A national survey of 1,000 people by Postalocity.com listed the top 10 least favorite tasks.
1-Minute Strategies: Aug. ’15
Boost your career by self-publishing on LinkedIn … Develop resilience to ease your way through life’s struggles … Increase productivity by setting yourself up to say “done.”
How do you fight your fears and assert yourself every day?
“Confident and assertive people don’t turn themselves off,” inspirational keynote speaker Susan Leahy taught her webinar audience last month. So how do you stay switched on?
6 ways for admins to become better connectors
We connected with author Nancy O’Reilly for her advice on building stronger professional relationships.
What it takes to build a great admin career
Julie Perrine says she’s an “accidental admin”—but once she got into it, she found she enjoyed the job and had the skills necessary to succeed at it. She’s worked in customer service, as an executive assistant and as a virtual assistant. In 2009, she launched All Things Admin and now does onsite workshops, training and speaking. We caught up with Perrine recently and talked about the changing role of admins and what it takes to get ahead in the profession now.
Are you the ‘face’ of your company?
When Karen Kaplan first started at Hill Holliday as a receptionist, she was just looking for a job to save money. But then the president of the company, Jack Connors, told her she was the face and voice of Hill Holliday …
When the blunder feels like a job-killer
Everyone makes mistakes on the job, but are there some you can’t recover from?