Insperity

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

A company with as few as ten employees can easily have sales representatives in four different states. Your company’s administrative assistant can’t pay her daycare bill and has to stay home with her child during your big open house event. Chad Smith is sales manager for Insperity Payroll Services.

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Payroll Software Mailing Administrative Assistance 191

Insperity

MARCH 20, 2018

You may feel your administrative assistant is critical to your business. A lot of companies try to claim all outside sales folks as exempt, even the ones working in the office. To be exempt under sales, you have to be out pounding the pavement selling, not inside the office. Key takeaways on classifying employees.

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Supervising Sales Salary Administrative Assistance 159

Fellow

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Reminder emails Managers and administrative assistants manage many meetings and projects, so it’s a good idea to set automatic reminder emails that will notify team members of upcoming due dates, new action items, or project updates. The automated chatbot can answer any frequently asked questions instantly.

Payroll 52

Payroll Data Entry Administrative Assistance Sales 52

Insperity

JUNE 2, 2015

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. Are your recruiting strategies falling short?

Administrative Assistance 107

Administrative Assistance Problem-Solving Correspondence Sales 107

Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2015

Sales team won’t tell us their schedules. Our sales team is supposed to take requests for new accounts and pricing questions. Our sales team is supposed to take requests for new accounts and pricing questions. Is this a normal set-up between customer support and sales?

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Insperity

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

A company with as few as ten employees can easily have sales representatives in four different states. Your company’s administrative assistant can’t pay her daycare bill and has to stay home with her child during your big open house event. Imagine the complications that can ensue from late paychecks.

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Payroll Software Mailing Administrative Assistance 100

SnackNation

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Testimonials: Here’s one anonymous customer quote from the program’s sales brochure : “These certifications have been a big boost to my resumé. ” – Vanessa, Administrative Assistant. ” – Tina, Administrative Assistant. You can compress or extend this course to fit your schedule.

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Office Management Administrative Assistance Training Supplies 48

Ask a Manager

MARCH 19, 2015

I’m an administrative assistant with an idea for our program work. But right now I am working as an administrative assistant at an education solutions company while I try to figure out what my next step is. First, a little background on me. Yes, bring it up! Listing a major and fast promotion on my resume.

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Administrative Assistance Sales Promotion Coaching 37

Ask a Manager

APRIL 22, 2022

” Yet despite a massive 40% growth in sales in the year that I worked there, Company A claimed that they didn’t “have the budget” to hire more people, effectively leaving me to do 3 full-time jobs’ worth of work. Now I have found a great new role in a field I’m madly enthusiastic about.

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Salary Administrative Assistance Interviewing Onboarding 38

Ask a Manager

APRIL 26, 2022

I was hired in 2019 as an administrative assistant. Some days are okay but I’m feeling increasingly uncomfortable, isolated, and smothered by my boss. This will be long but I think anecdotes might add additional context, so I will format in bullet points for easy skimming. • ” It’s intimacy in service of the work.

Administrative Assistance 37

Administrative Assistance Delegation Mentoring Sales 37

Ask a Manager

OCTOBER 26, 2022

The sales team golfs, the underwriters golf, and most of all the C-Suite golfs. There are five other people in my role and we share two administrative assistants. It’s five answers to five questions. Here we go…. Everyone at my company golfs. I work at a company where everyone golfs. I am a manager for a large company.

Administrative Assistance 44

Administrative Assistance Interviewing Purchasing Reporting 44

Eat Your Career

APRIL 12, 2020

It’s currently on sale until the end of April 2020. You’re figuring it all out as you go right now, so formalize it and make it a procedure. If you need help enhancing your proactive skillset, grab The Proactive Professional on Amazon! Initiate Communication with Management. Just because your leaders are busy, doesn’t mean they don’t want.

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Supervising Problem-Solving Technology Communication 116

Go Burrows

OCTOBER 29, 2023

And so your sales cycle is that much shorter, because by the time they come to you, they’ve already bought in, they know who they’re working with, and they’re ready to go. It’s obviously the host is now providing to me social media, SEO exposure, they’re promoting it, I’m getting into their network.

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Delegation Multitasking Networking Food 73

SnackNation

MARCH 20, 2017

Current Role: Senior Operations Sales Coordinator & Office Manager. Total years of Office Management/Admin/Assistant experience: 5 years. I have been getting involved in the marketing and the sales side of things. Summary of Kelly’s Top Tips: Getting involved in many departments (sales, marketing, customer service, etc.)

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Salary Office Management Prioritization Sales 66

Ask a Manager

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

We have two sales employees. I’ve worked in a few offices over my 12-year receptionist/administrative assistant career, but this is the first time I’ve ever come across this. When you have a “family business” and have other employees, it creates a mass of interaction emotions. We have a small office.

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Administrative Assistance Work Ethic Cleaning Sales 36

Ask a Manager

MARCH 11, 2018

I am starting to plan the annual Administrative Assistant’s Day observance. For the past several years, the firm hosts all the administrative staff to a nice lunch at the local country club, followed by a lecture on a topic by one of the two senior partners.

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Interviewing Software Administrative Assistance Administrative Staff 27

Ask a Manager

AUGUST 25, 2019

When I asked our administrative assistant to create an overnight shipping label, I checked the deadline, for some reason did not see a particular time specified, and requested delivery by noon. This isn’t a perk; it’s a marketing gimmick — a way to generate sales of tickets. What say you, my trusted adviser?

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Administrative Assistance Interviewing Mailing Purchasing 21

Ask a Manager

APRIL 30, 2017

I work in a front office as an administrative assistant for a nonprofit (my job entails a lot more than just handling front office inquiries, and I never have any free time as my work load is pretty heavy). Random strangers stop in our office and ask me to look up information for them.

Administrative Assistance 20

Administrative Assistance Computer Salary Catering 20

Ask a Manager

MARCH 24, 2016

My role was to open and then manage a new sales office. I work as at a leading worldwide pharmaceutical company as an administrative assistant. I don’t want my company car. I’ve lived and worked in a developing country for three years now as part of a contract with an overseas-based company. Great, right!?

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Pharmaceutical Administrative Assistance Salary Office Chairs 20

Ask a Manager

MARCH 30, 2022

First day she walks up to the administrative assistant and asks for a list of who she gets to “boss around” (in those terms). She didn’t understand what she was doing wrong (despite being shown in our handbook that sales of any kind (think: Girl Scout Cookies or fundraisers not sponsored by the company) we’re not allowed.

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Supplies Cubicle Cleaning Security 55

Ask a Manager

APRIL 25, 2017

They were all applying for our administrative assistant position. I did a Skype interview for a sales job at a tech company. I was laid off earlier this month because of a company asset sale, and my resume now says “to April 2017.” Interviewer asked me about the last time I cried.

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