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"You have not embraced your administrative
professional career until you've made a commitment to continuous learning
and growth within your field."
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WHY JOIN VAAP?
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to feed your hunger to continuously learn about
best practices in the administrative professional role.
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to gather new ideas you can bring back as value to
your own company and managers and executives.
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to demonstrate a commitment to continuous learning
to current and prospective employers by highlighting your affiliation
with a professional association in your field -- one dedicated to
training, professional development and education especially geared toward
administrative professionals.
After reading some of the
tips in publications included in your VAAP electronic membership packet,
administrative professionals have stated that it helped them to...
click to keep reading.
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VAAP Membership
FEATURES and
BENEFITS for 2010:
Feature
One
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Access to The Effective Admin Tip Sheet Series
-- contains 20 electronic publications on specialized topics tailored to
administrative professionals' daily workplace needs and on-the-job skills
and competencies. As the name implies, these publications are full of tips
and guidance on their individual specialized topics: Minute-taking, travel
planning, goal setting, meeting planning, time management, organization, and more. Get more
details on this series by
clicking here. This entire collection of tip
sheets is exclusively provided to VAAP members by The Effective Admin,
founder of VAAP. (This product is a $226 value.)
Feature
Two
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Access to The Effective Admin In-Depth Special
Report Series -- contains five 49+ page reports that include quotes
and input from working administrative professionals and the Admin Pro
Coach. These special reports are for and/or
about administrative professionals. They're developed through
original research that includes surveying working administrative professionals. Special report topics
are relevant to broad or specific current issues related to or of interest
to administrative professionals, such as dealing with interruptions and
distractions, managing e-mail overload, stress at the desk management, and
more. Get more details on this series by
clicking here. This entire collection of reports is exclusively
provided to VAAP members by The Effective Admin, founder of VAAP.
(This product is a $95 value.)
Feature
Three
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A subscription to The Effective Admin newsletter, a publication of the VAAP. You get every issue of
the newsletter
that's published during your 12 month membership. That's 8 issues per year
of this 8-page electronic newsletter (which recently won an award for
publication excellence). Read
more about the newsletter here.
(This product is a $21 value.)
Feature
Four
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The electronic archives of
The Effective Admin newsletter. So no matter when you become a VAAP member, you
won't miss an issue. Look at some of the
expert advice and tips here
that are already published in this newsletter -- that you won't miss as a
VAAP member because these back issues are all included in your membership
fee. (This product is an $80+ value -- if it were still sold
separately, which it is not; you can only get it here when you become a
VAAP member.)
Feature
Five
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A 211-page eBook called The Gold, which
presents dozens of the best articles and interviews from an earlier free
version of The Effective Admin newsletter
issued and no longer available to the general public. These previously
free newsletter issues prior to 2008 are full of informational gems from
The Effective Admin editor and
other experts interviewed for articles and tips. These issues also include
advice and survey responses from your administrative professional peers on
a variety of issues related to your admin job and career. Looks at some of
what you'll learn. (This
product is a $97 value -- if it were still sold separately, which it is
not; you can only get it here when you become a VAAP member.)
Feature
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A downloadable and printable VAAP membership certificate
with your name on it (e-mailed to you within your first seven days of
membership or after full payment of your membership fee if you use the
multiple installment payment option plan). Print this certificate and put it in your portfolio or in your personnel
file. Or simply frame it and display it nearby as a visual cue to your
commitment to professional development and continuous learning in your
profession.
Feature
Seven
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Any new digital products or benefits added to the VAAP membership download page over the next 12 months. You'll be notified
by e-mail if any major new electronic publications are added to The
Effective Admin Tip Sheet Series or In-Depth Special Report Series
-- so you won't have to check the membership resources download page
regularly if you don't want to. Typically two or thee are added to the
series over a 12-month period, but sometimes more. You will be notified by
e-mail of other publications, resources and benefits too as added.
Feature
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An option to renew your VAAP membership at the end of 12 months at a
significant discount off the first-year membership rate. Get the
details here. You can continue to be affiliated with VAAP at a
fraction of original first-year membership rates. While other associations
and communities often raise their rates in successive years, VAAP actually
lowers it rates to reward consecutive year membership.
Feature
Nine
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You'll be able to proudly tell your employer and
prospective employers that you are a member of
the Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals – a professional
association in your field and source for ongoing training, professional development,
and educational resources exclusively tailored toward administrative
professionals. You can add your affiliation with VAAP to your resumes as a talking
point and to your performance review documents in the continuing education
or membership sections. This can give you an edge and positive
differentiation among administrative professionals in your workplace
environments by demonstrating a proactive commitment to continuous
learning in your field and admin role.
Feature
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Access to the VAAP Private Member eLearning Community, a recent benefit of VAAP
membership still under development that you can access now. It's a growing
members-only area where you can read new articles, search The Effective
Admin newsletter archives electronically, get links to administrative
salary resources and information and more.
Ready to Join?
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Will
you become a member today? It's time to go with your gut and own
your decision. If it's, "No," then best wishes in your future professional
career endeavors. But if you've decided, "Yes," then it's time to take
action on your decision: Make payment and checkout here on the
"Join Now" page so you can
start benefiting in the next five minutes from the VAAP resources and
professional affiliation recognition you'll have with VAAP. Either way,
own your decision confidently and act on it.
"Today, you are not investing in the
VAAP or in an association membership. You are investing in yourself:
your continuous growth in your administrative professional
career, your knowledge expansion, your success. When you
realize and accept that mindset, you've grown further in your
administrative professional career."
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