Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals

An association for administrative assistants, executive assistants

and all administrative professionals of any job title or level

who enjoy ongoing learning and professional development

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The Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals is your virtual professional association and source for training, professional development, and educational resources for administrative assistants, executive assistants, secretaries, and all administrative professionals of any job title.

VAAP is the first all virtual professional and educational association exclusively designed for administrative professionals who work on site in corporations, companies, organizations, and educational institutions globally. Achieve support and continuous learning in your administrative professional job and role without ever leaving your office desk.

Additionally, if you work as a lone admin in your department or company, you're not alone anymore. Keep up with advice, tips and news for and about today's working administrative professionals. Stay in the loop!

BENEFIT: VAAP is focused on administrative professionals, not all office professionals.

So that means if you're an executive assistant, administrative assistant, secretary or related title, you're at the educational and development resource that specifically serves you and your peers. You'll only be receiving educational information administrative professionals can use during job performance and career management.

VAAP serves you -- there are no outside advertisements from advertisers directed at administrative professionals as part of any of your VAAP benefits or features. All VAAP products are jam packed only with practical and relevant educational information for you produced by VAAP for executive assistants, administrative assistants and secretaries.

BENEFIT: Learn at Your Own Pace
The ability to learn at your own pace is a benefit of VAAP membership presented through electronic, educational self-study materials. You can review VAAP electronic learning resources at your own pace -- again and again as you want to or need to in your administrative professional job or career. This is because many VAAP learning resources are in-depth, downloadable publications that you can keep forever -- adding your highlights and sticky notes (as many administrative professional members say they do) to the tips and advice you'll want to remember.

Other learning happens online by reading content at the VAAP Private Member eLearning Community, which is new and under development now but accessible to you right away after joining. You're welcome to leave your own comments there too in regard to some of the informative articles you'll find at the site. (It's a private site and only VAAP members with password access will read your comments there.)

Learning at your own pace through informal, self-study educational materials is a low pressure way to obtain top-notch personal and professional development advice and practical strategies that help you stay informed and motivated about best practices for administrative professionals. No travel involved! You can learn from your desk at times when you're ready to do so.

Once a member, you'll find there are many downloadable educational materials provided by VAAP that specifically contain feedback from your colleagues -- employed administrative professionals. That's in addition to the expert advice from the VAAP advisor who specializes in serving administrative professionals. This is true "informal learning" and "peer-to-peer learning" when you're learning from those like you who share their knowledge, ideas and advice.

BENEFIT: Gain the Prestige of Belonging to a Professional Association

Alert your managers and executives during performance reviews and job searches that you belong to VAAP and are proactive in seeking continuous learning opportunities in your administrative role. Being proactive means you show initiative -- in this case, it's in relation to continuous learning relevant to your job and field, staying current with best practices for administrative professionals, and gathering new information and ideas that you can implement for your benefit and your employer's benefit.

VAAP is not free to join. It's a paid membership in an educational and professional association. That means not every administrative professional is a member -- only those willing to invest in their own professional development and continuous education in their administrative roles.

While "paid" membership might not seem like a "benefit" to you at first glance, it really is. This concept carries it's own type of prestige. Your managers, executives and other staff you support invest in their own professional development, continuous education and training -- they don't get it, or expect it, for free. It takes a certain kind of initiative, and foresight, to invest in your own professional development. Your employers get that.

And when you do invest in your own development and education to keep up with best practices and potentially bring more value to your employer through ideas you learn and implement, your employers learn something about you. They immediately differentiate you mentally from other employees (or prospective ones) who don't do that.

You are someone who takes your career seriously. Administrative assistants, executive assistants, and secretaries who join a professional association like VAAP obviously believe they are in more than just jobs -- they are in careers, a professional field. Even when they change from one administrative job to another, they still retain the mindset of being a professional in a career. You might change jobs (or not) but you always retain your professionalism, skill set, attributes, and more -- and you continue to develop these qualities and skills through membership in VAAP.

BENEFIT: Pay Less Even While You're Getting More and More

VAAP is doing a little bragging here... It seems noteworthy to point out that while other associations, communities and even trainers and consultants often raise their rates in successive years, VAAP actually does the opposite. VAAP lowers it rates to reward you for consecutive year membership.

You read that right: You'll pay less when you renew your membership year two onward than you paid for your initial membership now. VAAP rates go down, not up. You'll find the renewal rate under the "Renewals" page/tab on this site.

One more thing... VAAP also offers a generously spaced out payment plan (i.e. payments 30 days apart) -- that's for if you want to make your initial membership payment in installments that fit your budget. Not every administrative professional has a big personal spending allowance for professional development and continuous education in the field (or a generous employer willing to foot the bill).

So this option was created to ensure the administrative professional of modest means is not excluded from VAAP. Members of the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals should have one thing in common (and it's not their budget): It's a desire to continuously learn practical and relevant information they can transfer to their administrative professional roles, job performance, and career management.

Of course, if you have an employer who invests in you and your administrative professional co-workers, there is an option for your company to join VAAP at a flat rate annually. In that case, your company or organization is the actual VAAP member; however, you can and should certainly note on your resume and in your professional documents that you continuously learn through VAAP resources (provided by your company's membership and investment, which is really an investment in you by your company).

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You'll find more details about VAAP membership in the "Features & Benefits" and "Why Join" sections. Browse all the information on this Website and then click the "Join Now" tab to go to the payment page and start your VAAP membership today.