Admin Assistant

Find various books on being an Admin Assistant, from fact, to fiction. SA Career Focus has assembled these titles for your convenience.

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Administrative Assistant performs administrative and office support activities for multiple supervisors. Duties may include fielding telephone calls, receiving and directing visitors, word processing, filing, and faxing. Extensive software skills are required, as well as Internet research abilities and strong communication skills. Staff in this category also may have the title of department assistant, coordinator, or associate.

The Administrative Assistant's Assistant

Addresses major issues facing administrative assistants including time management, computer technology, and preparing reports. A list of activities is provided that can be utilized as a checklist, and guide. In addition to suggestions offered for organizing daily activities, commonly encountered terms are explained such as time management, spam, networking, and anti-virus protection.

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Start Your Own Office and Administrative Support Service

Forget Assistant -Become an Entrepreneur In today's new business environment, there are great work-from-home opportunities for office managers, executive assistants, administrative professionals and anyone else with excellent organizational and computer skills. Why fight traffic to go to an office when you can do the same work-perhaps at better pay-from home? Start your own office or administrative support service, offering your word processing, dictation, database management, telephone, communication or other administrative services on a contract basis to companies around the globe. Learn how to turn your business skills into a profitable freelance opportunity: Write a strong business plan that lays out your path to success Determine services and policies that maximize profits Get great deals on the software and equipment your business needs Hire an excellent staff if your business grows too big for one person Go above and beyond your competition to attract regular clients Successful entrepreneurs in this field reveal the secrets to growing a highly profitable business. Plus, get websites and contact information for valuable resources in the Business Support Service National Directory inside. Leave the drab office behind and strike out on your own in this hot field.

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Microsoft Office Access 2007 Forms, Reports, and Queries 
 
Microsoft Access is a large, intimidating program. Unlike Word or Excel where users can perform basic tasks without much in the way of training, Access presents challenges from the outset. Most users never progress beyond creating simple tables and using Wizards to create basic forms and reports. At the same time, all users - from managers to researchers to administrative assistants - need to know that what they seek is embedded somewhere in their Access tables. Without a more sophisticated knowledge of how to extract and present that data, they are forced to rely on office gurus and overworked IT people to provide canned reports or one-size-fits-all solutions. This book will change all that by giving you the skills required to extract the data you need (queries), build efficient front-ends for that data (forms), and publish the results in an attractive and easy-to-read format (reports). To that end, this book shuns the big Access picture and instead focuses intently on queries, forms, and reports. This in-depth approach will give you the skills and understanding you need to get at the data and prove the old adage that knowledge is indeed power. 

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Opportunities in Administrative Assistant Careers

Each book offers: The latest information on a field of interest Training and educational requirements for each career Salary statistics for different positions within each field Up-to-date professional and Internet resources 
 
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