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Bridging the Skills Gap: Your Least Qualified Candidate May Be Your Best Hire

Insperity

If you’re trying to hire engineers, sales managers and reps, administrative assistants, or accounting and finance staff, you’ve probably noticed that qualified candidates are hard to come by. These roles are among the top 10 hardest-to-fill American jobs, according to the survey.

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Bridging the Skills Gap: Your Least Qualified Candidate May Be Your Best Hire

Insperity

If you’re trying to hire engineers, sales managers and reps, administrative assistants, or accounting and finance staff, you’ve probably noticed that qualified candidates are hard to come by. These roles are among the top 10 hardest-to-fill American jobs, according to the survey.

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Maximizing Productivity: Why Every Business Owner Needs an Executive Assistant

C-Suite Assistants

An assistant can handle many lower-level chores, such as answering phone calls, responding to email inquiries, scheduling meetings, making travel arrangements, creating presentations and maintaining your schedule. Some executive assistants can also serve as a liaison to prospects, clients, key staff and Board members.

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How to Effectively Communicate with Remote Employees

C-Suite Assistants

When sending messages or emails, follow these guidelines: Carefully review any correspondence for typos, clarity and language that might be misinterpreted or inappropriate. C-Suite Can Help You Find a Premiere Assistant Who’s Remote Office Savvy. This is why video conferencing is the best way to avoid miscommunication.

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What does it take to be a successful office manager?

Page Personnel

Duties for office managers vary according to the size of the employing organisation, so it could mean organising, planning and overseeing a large pool of administrative assistants or working with one or two people in a smaller office. Related: How to make a successful career change What does an office manager do?

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is “secretary” a demeaning title?

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A reader writes: I work in the tree care industry at a company where the hierarchy is the owner and manager (“Will”), his assistant on the field providing estimates, then me, the owner’s secretary, then the tree workers (who have their own hierarchy). Secretary now has a bad connotation, but I’m an administrative assistant.

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company didn’t even read my application, forced to take a promotion you don’t want, and more

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My friend, Jane, works as an administrative assistant for a nonprofit. I’d said I wasn’t up for taking on this new role without the corresponding title or salary.” (She I know it suuuucks to spend all that time on an application and then hear “we didn’t even read it” though. She should do that in person though, not via email.