Administrative Professionals Day

From managing schedules to directing phone calls, responding to emails, managing projects and countless other things they do every day, administrative ...

WVU joins the International Association of Administrative Professionals to recognize the unique skills of our administrative professionals during National ...

Check out the helpful Employee User Guide for more information on how to use the Go Beyond Recognition Portal. 1. Long on to the Go Beyond using your WVU credentials. Sending an e-card on Go Beyond is quick and easy.

Secretary Day was first created by Mary Barrett—the president of the National Secretaries Association. She invented the holiday sometime during the late ...

Despite the fact that their roles have evolved over the past few years, they remain an integral to the operations of the workplace. Secretaries and administrative assistants are integral to the smooth operation of an office, and this holiday honors their contributions. On the Wednesday in the last week of April, Administrative Professionals Day, also known as Secretaries Day, is celebrated.

Administrative Professionals Week is commemorated in the last full week of April and celebrates the administrative professionals who keep businesses going ...

4: Blackout hours are one of the most creative ideas for administrative professionals day. Many employers use the opportunity to honour their administrative staff with gifts such as flowers, coffee mugs, stationery sets and special lunches. They’re the co-ordinators, schedulers, organisers and traffic controllers; they have their finger on the pulse of activity in the office and make sure everything runs smoothly; they are an office’s central nervous system.

Today is Administrative Professionals Day, and while the existence of this hyper-specific honorary day goes by every year unnoticed by many, there are those ...

It can be simultaneously true that this day is a capitalist scam that others our administrative professionals while also giving us an opportunity to celebrate them. She called the holiday “disingenuous” because it reveals how devalued administrative assistants are every other day of the year. NSA president Mary Barrett and a few other professionals were instrumental in creating the holiday, which even has a registered trademark. The NSA went through a few name changes, first to Professional Secretaries International in the early 1980s, then to the International Association of Administrative Professionals in 1998. Back in 1942, the National Secretaries Association was founded to highlight and support administrative personnel. And some of them post earnestly on social media or grab flowers and donuts for their office personnel on the Wednesday of the last full week in April every year.

Happy Administrative Professionals Day! Today we celebrate the people who are crucial to the flow of information, making our work possible.

Thank you for all you do in supporting the department in often-unseen but critical ways. They work in every division and fulfill important roles and functions that keep our department moving forward, all striving together to meet our mission of preparing people to successfully return to society. Administrative Professionals Day began in the World War II era as a result of the United States’ shortage of administrative personnel.