Solidify your career as an administrative professional. Discover 20 key tips to thrive in the ever-evolving modern workplace.
Job Seeker Tips
What Are Companies Looking For When Hiring An Administrative Assistant?
Whether you’re a seasoned executive secretary applying for a new role for the first time in ten years, or you’re looking to land an entry-level office assistant job for the first time, you’ll want to make sure your resume stands out. Here’s how.
Resume Inflation: Top 5 Overstatements
Updating your resume? Here are some common overstatements and exaggerations that hiring managers secretly wish you’d avoid.
Top 15 Interview Questions
The following are 15 typical job interview questions. Think about how you would respond should an interviewer ask you one or more of these. Write down your answers or type them out and print so you...
Providing References
When choosing your references, select people who can speak intelligently about your work habits and experiences. Choose past employers, supervisors, teachers, business leaders, or someone with whom...
Writing a Thank You Note After the Job Interview
The job interview is over. Now what? Many employers will use this period to test an applicant’s interest in a company and whether or not you have good follow up skills. You will be way ahead of your...
Pink Slip Pointers: Top 10 Tips for Surviving Layoffs
Being downsized, dismissed, laid off, or let go is always shocking. In times like these, workers need all the support they can get. Bonney is here to help, with a compilation of ten tried-and-true...
Are You Risking Job Burnout?
Every job has its ups and downs. But sometimes the downs last longer than they should. If your work environment is chaotic, demanding, unrewarding, or monotonous, and it’s been that way for months...
Balancing Work And School
Studying & Working Full-time? 5 Things You Need to Succeed For students everywhere, a new school year can bring the anticipation of new books, new teachers, and new classrooms. But if you are...
Holidays at the Workplace
An Employee Survival Guide for Grinches & Elves Alike Whether you work full-time or part-time, or you are a temporary or seasonal worker, you probably consider your coworkers your second family....
Multitasking Mixed Messages
Is Task-Juggling at Work OK? In the heyday of multitasking, it was common to brag about answering email, writing a report all while in a meeting about the latest sales numbers. But today,...
Overcoming Barriers to Employment
Conquering Obstacles in the Path Toward Getting a Job For many job seekers, getting a job is not simply a matter of finding the right position. Barriers to employment can make looking for a job akin...