A truly outstanding secretary or administrative assistant is a rare find. This comprehensive, but compact guide sets the standard for any secretary or administrative assistant who wants to be perceived as a skilled professional. The essence of a good assistant is efficiency and versatility, and this guide sets forth all the skills a reader needs, including a detailed section on the use of computers. Topics include: daily duties; telephone usage; travel arrangements; record-keeping; basics of computer hardware; overview of wordprocessing, databases, spreadsheets and communications; business and legal documents; book-keeping; and hints on international trade.
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Use this manual to help expand existing professional skills: thirty chapters organize insights and procedures on administrative duties and high-tech office activities, from using the phone and making travel arrangements to keyboarding skills and deciphering legal documents. An excellent handbook for office reference. -- Midwest Book Review
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“A handbook full of essential information for administrative assistants and secretaries.” --Reference and Research News
“Provides easy access to a wealth of practical and useful information… comprehensive scope… [a] useful reference tool." --American Reference Books Annual
“An excellent handbook for office reference.” --Bookwatch
--This text refers to an alternate Hardcover edition.
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This has been such a help,
By "whitepoodle" (NY, NY) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook (Hardcover)
I just started a job as a secretary and my boss was no help in ttraining. I was lost. A friend recommended this book and it has been a lifesaver!! It has all the details and hints. After a couple of weeks, I looked like a pro. If you are a boss, buy this book and make it part of your training. If you are a secretary like me, buy it and hide it in the drawer and next time you're stumped, I bet you find the answer here.
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Good for Small Business,
This review is from: The Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook (Hardcover)
We run a small business and this book turned out to be a great resource for making us look like a big business. The best sections include standard letter addressing, punctuation, and title addressing.
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Administrative Assistant & Secretary Handbook,
By RT "RT" (USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Administrative Assistant's and Secretary's Handbook (Administrative Assistant's & Secretary's Handbook) (Hardcover)
Overall not bad. I ordered the book because I discovered general clerical tasks such as envelope & letter formats, answering phones, taking messages were not common knowledge to highschool graduates. This book gave our receptionist who had no office/clerical training good guidlines to follow. The computer section is outdated.
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A secretary is hired to relieve the busy employer of a great deal of work, especially the details of office procedure and other matters that do not require the employer's personal involvement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Express Mail, The Honorable, New York, The Reverend, Apple Macintosh, Attorney General, High School, United Nations, John Smith, Madam Ambassador, Math Dept, Federal Express, Country Official Language, Microsoft Corporation, Philip Brown, Puerto Rico, Social Security, Statistics Teacher, Internal Revenue Service, Madam Chief Justice, Main Street, South America, Brother Robert, Courtesy of United Parcel Service, Department of State New!
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A secretary is hired to relieve the busy employer of a great deal of work, especially the details of office procedure and other matters that do not require the employer's personal involvement. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
basic checking account, special function keys, shot reprinted, database management programs Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Express Mail, The Honorable, New York, The Reverend, Apple Macintosh, Attorney General, High School, United Nations, John Smith, Madam Ambassador, Math Dept, Federal Express, Country Official Language, Microsoft Corporation, Philip Brown, Puerto Rico, Social Security, Statistics Teacher, Internal Revenue Service, Madam Chief Justice, Main Street, South America, Brother Robert, Courtesy of United Parcel Service, Department of State New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Battle of the Bulge (-50th Anniversary) by Turner Publishing on page 258
- San Francisco, California on page 186
- A Basic Guide to Exporting by U. s. Department of Commerce on page 326
- Bartlett's Familiar Quotations Hb by John Bartlett on page 8
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