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The secretary is one of the most pivotal people in any office setting, regardless of the industry. The secretary’s purpose is to ensure the daily administrative office tasks are done in a manner that does not cause any office disruption. According to the Department of Labor Statistics, those in the secretarial field make up 3.9 million jobs, as of 2012. However, there is one person that is considered the boss’ “right hand,” that person is the executive assistant.

The day I attended physical therapy for a broken arm was the day I wanted to get into physical therapy. It taught me techniques to help me regain control of something that I have lost temporary of like an arm or leg. That day when I attended physical therapy was the day my life changed and only for the better, I hope. This is a career which I want to pursue and become part of. To start my career I would like to become a physical therapist assistant to learn the fundamentals and then later, move to become a physical therapist, and maybe have someone assist me. But to become a physical therapist assistant or PTA one must complete a program and have excellent grades to achieve this goal. The physical therapy assistant is a graduate of a

Stacey Garner, HCS Regional Manager, Ronda Sims, HCS Assistant Regional Manager, & Anjail Salik HCS Assistant Regional Manager

I interviewed an Instructional Aide that I work with at Cottonwood Elementary. Her name is Marcela and she works with the Kindergartners. She moved from Argentina to New York when she was 3 years old and her first language was Spanish. Her mother put her in preschool when she turned 5, to help her learn English. Marcela shared with me that when she went to school she felt very sad, disconnected and was constantly looking for other children that spoke Spanish. She did find a girl who spoke Spanish and she became “buddies’ with her. The girl that she befriended would help her by translating everything the teacher would say, which was all in English. Marcela said she was speaking English by Kindergarten, but she must have had a strong accent because they put in her in speech

The two video segments in the video I chose are the segments about Careers in Management: Skills, and Administrative Assistant. Although these videos provided a great deal of valuable information, I felt that those two would be more relevant to my future career plans. Out of these segments, the two most important points are that interpersonal, organizational, and leadership skills are fundamental in the business world/career path. Additionally, administrative assistants must stay up to date with technology advancements and be detail oriented and dependable.

Nicholas Carr, in his article “IT Doesn’t Matter” (HBR, 2003) raises a point that IT can no longer create a competitive advantage for any business. Even though Carr understands that IT cannot be ignored, he asserts that strategic importance of IT is diminishing and advises his readers to think before investing in IT. He argues that any advantage provided by IT will be available to an entire industry, and a single firm cannot rely on using those systems as a differentiator. Moreover, Carr writes that companies are running into the risk of overspending without considering alternatives or whether it will give the company a return on their investment. Readers can see this over the last few years at IVK, a fictional financial service company discussed in The Adventures of an IT

Successful businesses rely heavily on top-notch administrative professionals. A shrewd administrative assistant is the wizard behind the company curtain, the one who keeps the office running efficiently. In addition, skilled administrators continuously look for new ways to lend support, increase productivity or make improvements to benefit the company.

- Dena gains agreement with the client to ensure they are on the same page.

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I believe I am a strong candidate for this position, as many of the responsibilities and duties of the executive assistant position mirror my current role at Pier 59 Studios. Barbara mentioned that she wants someone who is a chameleon and capable of understanding and working with creative people, as the role will also involve assisting the other team members. I am someone who is not only capable of working independently, but also thrive in a collaborative team environment. My time at Pier 59 Studios has allowed me to work with some of fashion industry's most creative talent and is used to handling their requests and needs. Aside from my organizational and communication skills, I am also someone who is proactive in turning everyone situation

The mini-case starts with “IT is a pain in the neck,” which is a wrong notion that most of the business managers have in an organization. The history of IT-business relationships in most of the organizations shows that there is a huge gap between both sides which is getting better over a period of time. Today, managers know the fact that it is the people, technology and information that realizes the value of a company and everytime IT cannot be blamed for everything. The days have gone when IT was looked at as the sole responsibility for a company’s growth or downfall. IT processes along with the

Responsible for the successful scheduling, coordination, tracking and closure average of 200 production orders through four work centers a month.

In general society eye, all wrongdoings are seen as wretched. For the typical national, wrongdoing is something considered as an action that is uncouth to encounter. Nevertheless, when taking a gander at infringement against each other, some have all the earmarks of being a bigger number of genuine than others. In Bernard Malamud's "The Assistant", the rule wrongdoing that seizes that story is strike and robbery. However appeared differently in relation to regicide, youngster murder, and hurting of the physical and enthusiastic kind, attack and robbery is the one wrongdoing that is the most "human" among the infringement recorded. Within this paper, I may attempt to exhibit my conviction that strike and robbery to a more comfortable unite with

IT Doesn’t Matter was an article written by: Nicholas G. Carr for the Harvard Business Review Magazine in 2003. The article outlines a situation, not quite as its title suggests, that IT is less relevant that it used to be in terms of a competitive advantage in Industry.

“In the earliest phases of its build out; however, an infrastructural technology can take the form of a proprietary technology. As long as access to the technology is restricted—through physical limitations, intellectual property rights, high costs, or a lack of standards—a company can use it to gain advantages over rivals.” As Laura Acevedo notates in her article Business Benefits of Information Technology, “Companies using a first-movers strategy can use information technology to create new products, distance their products from the existing market or enhance their customer services. Companies that follow a low-cost product strategy can look to information technology solutions to reduce their costs through increased productivity and reduced need for employee overhead.” The contention is that once a technology has evolved from being considered a proprietary technology into an infrastructural technology then the differentiation from one company to the next is inevitably lost.