Quiet hiring is about filling open positions with staff who are already on the payroll rather than hiring from outside the company. Executive assistants are prime targets for quiet hiring. In addition to already possessing excellent organizational, communication and scheduling skills, many administrative professionals also can flex these skills.
To climb in the ranks within your current organization or branch out and succeed somewhere you view as more prestigious, challenging or fulfilling, take an introspective look at what you bring to the table wherever you go. Here are some practical steps to help chart your path to success.
For some employees, hearing words of praise is better than a cash bonus—and such praise is a key reason people want to stay in their jobs. Yet many managers can muster up such phrases only during annual reviews … if at all. Here are 10 key ideas managers should consider when offering positive feedback to employees.
“Bring your own device/tech/apps” organizations can be challenging, especially if you’re supporting multiple managers who all use different devices and applications. Here are a few tips to maintain your sanity and keep up the good work as who and what you are expected to support becomes fluid.
If you ever find yourself feeling particularly bored and unutilized at work, here are some ways to increase your value to your organization.
Are you a new executive assistant looking for advice, or perhaps an experienced one looking for suggestions for your executive for more robust onboarding? We contacted several experienced administrative assistants to see what experts feel are the most important pieces of knowledge to know and skills to develop when beginning an administrative professional career.
Your boss asks you to buy a gift for a new employee, an individual who went above and beyond, or for every employee during a significant time of the year, but you have no idea where to start. Here are four tips for gift shopping.
There are many tools at your disposal to make everyone’s life a little bit easier in the workplace—that is, if you know how to effectively utilize these tools.
Don’t let AI overtake you … make the new hire feel welcome.
CEO of Brain Aware Training, Britt Andreatta, Ph.D., recently presented “Wired to Become: The Neuroscience of Purpose” at SHRM 2023, providing a breadth of insight into finding purpose. She offered insight for managers into the reasons employees feel they lack purpose and the benefits of finding it, as well as tips on how to promote doing so.
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