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For Beginners: Keyboarding

Administrative Arts

For those just starting out in the clerical field, I cannot stress enough working on your keyboarding skills. Here’s a few sites on-line where you can get some keyboarding practice: Peter’s On-line Typing Course – this is the best one, in my opinion. Keyboard Lessons – 10 lessons for keyboarding.

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Would You Give Your Staff the ‘Immersive Treatment’?

Allwork

Your computer keyboard and mouse are simple haptic interfaces. The interview and selection process is another avenue for immersive integration. Mixed reality – this combines VR and AR in any number of ways. . Gloves and exoskeletons are more advanced examples, that can track your movement. . Where does the metaverse fit in? .

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Managing Your Online Reputation

On The Job

It is part of the everyday fabric of a journalist's life to constantly question and assess sources and information and even our own personal biases when we put our hands on a computer keyboard. Many bloggers have never had these discussions, and that makes sense.

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Author of New Happy Shares The Key to True Happiness

Success

When I ended my call with Stephanie Harrison , author of New Happy —a book that illustrates how, through generations of beliefs handed down to us, we’ve internalized false ideologies about happiness— she asked me a question no one I’ve interviewed has ever asked: “How can I support you in your life?”

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If You Think You’re Unbiased, You’re Wrong

Success

When the NFL set out to counter charges of bias in its upper ranks, she adds, it prompted the creation of the Rooney Rule , requiring its franchises to interview minority candidates for an increasing variety of open roles. John, who won a silver medal and two bronze medals as an alpine skier at the 1984 Paralympics in Innsbruck, Austria.

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Don't Let the Numbers Get You Down

On The Job

While it’s easy to hunch over the keyboard and commune only with the Internet, it’s the creative give-and-take with other people that generates the most satisfying work. His reaction was immediate: he reported the unethical conduct to company lawyers who then forwarded it to Lotus. Sharing ideas.

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Which secretary skills are worth keeping?

Practically Perfect PA

But I do think it is important for assistants to be able to type quickly because, from my experience, many executives still punch at their keyboard with one finger and can take forever to write a simple email. I have no idea how many words per minute I can type… I haven’t been asked that question in quite a few years.

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