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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."

 

WHY JOIN VAAP?

  • to feed your hunger to continuously learn about best practices in the administrative professional role.

  • to gather new ideas you can bring back as value to your own  company and managers and executives.

  • 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.

 

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 Six

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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 Eight

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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 Ten

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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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