Virtual Association for Administrative Professionals

A professional and educational association for administrative assistants, executive assistants and all administrative professionals of any job title or level who enjoy ongoing learning and professional development

"You have not embraced your administrative professional career until you've made a commitment to continuous learning and growth within your field."

--Karen Porter, VAAP Founder and President

VAAP Membership FEATURES and BENEFITS for 2011:

Feature One

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Access to the VAAP Private Member eLearning Community. It's a growing members-only online area where you can:

• Get fast facts about administrative professionals and the administrative profession in general.

• Search The Effective Admin (TEA) newsletter archives electronically. More than 600 TEA newsletter articles that appeared in past issues are posted and neatly categorized for you to easily access the topics you need.

• Get links to administrative salary data and resources.

• Read VAAP members-only content.

• Search the eLearning Community site electronically by keyword or phrase to find what you need when you need it.

• More features and resources are being added to this private community ongoing.

Feature Two

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Access to The Effective Admin Tips Series -- contains 22 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 tips publications is exclusively provided to VAAP members by The Effective Admin, founder of VAAP.

Feature Three

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Access to The Effective Admin In-Depth Special Report Series -- contains eight reports (from 25 to 63 pages) that include quotes and input from working administrative professionals and the Admin Pro Coach. These special reports are for and 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.

Feature Four

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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 six issues per year of this eight-page electronic newsletter (which won an award for publication excellence). Read more about the newsletter here.

Feature Five

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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.

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 a multiple installment payment option plan; for individual rate memberships only, not company rate memberships in which the company and not the individual is the member). 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 new electronic publications are added to The Effective Admin Tips Series or In-Depth Special Report Series (or any other future series of educational resources produced by VAAP) -- so you won't have to check the membership resources download page regularly if you don't want to. You will be notified by e-mail of all major publications, resources and benefits if and 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. Note that if your company purchases a company-wide rate membership, you still have the right to tell others that you are affiliated with VAAP and learn through VAAP participation and resources.

 

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."

I've heard enough!

I'm ready to join. Enroll me now!