Update your style for citing sources
The basic information required for noting sources hasn’t changed since you wrote a high school term paper, but the wealth of information available in electronic formats continues to add new twists.
Category: Office Skills
Help new employees start on a good foot
Give new employees a running start at their jobs, with these little-noticed but much-appreciated assists.
Would Thomas Edison hire you?
Broad knowledge is a great attribute for an admin pro. Thomas Edison valued it. He wanted smart, practical people to help run his empire of inventiveness. So, he devised a test to measure each applicant’s breadth of reading and knowledge.
Working Smarter: Type once, enter twice, save time
Cut way down on your keystrokes, with these Outlook tools that let you mine information that’s already in your files.
Pinching pennies can save salaries
Pay attention to small amounts of spending that could add up to huge savings across your organization.
Shopping for a copier?
Shopping for the copier? For the second consecutive year, Imagistics copiers topped J.D. Power and Associates’ survey of customer satisfaction. By introducing new models and better training its sales force, Hewlett-Packard jumped from last place in 2003 to a tie with Toshiba for second in 2004. Only a few points on a 1,000-point scale separated […]
Save the boss time: Screen applicants
To keep hiring from stealing too much time from your boss’s day, offer to interview promising candidates by phone before you set up an appointment.
Check Web-seller’s legitimacy.
Check Web-seller’s legitimacy. Before buying from a Web site for the first time, check it for a phone number and physical mailing address. If it has a phone number, test it before buying. If you can’t find either, the site owner may have something to hide.
Turn your computer skills into $$$
Employers expect greater computer proficiency from all levels of admin pros than they did only a few years ago, staffing firm reps say. Being able to chip in on assignments involving computer work offers one of the best ways for receptionists to move up.
Quiz: Building presentations by the numbers
How well do you understand the general guidelines for preparing presentations? Take this quiz. And visit these web sites to find ways to improve your presentations: