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A Guide to Hiring the Best Front Desk Staff for Your Practice

The Receptionist

Screen Applicants Carefully When interviewing candidates for your open position, listen to more than just the content of their answers. You should be able to gauge their openness and emotional intelligence by the way they relate to you in an interview. Ask the Right Questions The interview is where the magic happens.

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Positioning Administrative Employees For Internal Growth

The Receptionist

In her interview on our podcast, The FABRIC, she reflected on her own value and how she plays to her strengths within her organization. “I’ve During her interview on The FABRIC , Mary expresses a sentiment about her career progression that highlights the importance of articulating the growth and transition of employees. “I

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How to Reduce Employee Turnover

The Receptionist

Learn From Exit Surveys When an employee leaves your organization, don’t forget to interview them. Your employees will be more likely to stick with you because you’ve invested in them and have provided them with opportunities to continue advancing their career with you.

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Tips for Managing Interns

The Receptionist

For many organizations, internships are now considered extended job interviews. If you want to hire the best, you must find the best. And a great way to discover the best new talent is through an internship program. An organization can spot and acquire new talent as the person is just starting out on their career.

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my employees finish my sentences, my interviewer left me alone while she ran errands, and more

Ask a Manager

My interviewer left me alone to run the office while she ran errands. I had an interview recently for a receptionist-type position at a chiropractor’s office. and I really need the money” is the truth but clearly not a good interview answer. How would you answer this? “I

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office won’t call me “lord,” everyone has ideas but won’t do the work, and more

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From internship Q&A session calls I’ve experienced, it is basically a job interview so I made sure I dressed professionally and was prepared. I am applying to a job that is currently operating remotely in an area fairly hard hit by COVID. I was contacted by a recruiter through my school’s job search engine website.

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Office Administrator vs Office Manager: Understanding the Roles

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An OM might have to take a high-profile client on an office tour one day and then lead a new-employee orientation training the next day. In an interview with Artisan Creative , one Office Manager says, “I think the most rewarding part of my job is completing tasks that I know will make someone else’s day just a little bit easier.”.