I've been at my job as Admin Assistant for 22 years. I assumed with my length of employment it would be easy to find another job. NOPE! We are so far behind the times. I have been interviewed many times and they seem shocked when they find out I know nothing about programs their office uses. I don't mind getting a head start and learning these programs, but I don't know what I need to learn. Anyone have suggestions? I use Microsoft Word, Excel, Outlook and Publisher.

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You should learn the whole Microsoft suite of apps : Office (Word, Excel, Outlook, PowerPoint), Teams, OneDrive, Power Automate, CoPilot, SharePoint, Planner, Lists, Forms, One Note, Whiteboard.

Others to learn: Grammarly, Chat GPT, Adobe Acrobat, Miro, Concur, DocuSign, Google Suite (Docs, Sheets, Slides, Gmail, Drive, Meet, Forms).

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Hi! I would suggest you learn Power Point, Teams, OneDrive and One Note.

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What programs are they saying you lack?

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Great advice so far. I'd also add systems for booking trivia like Concur. I lied about that one on my resume because I felt a shift in every interview once they learned I didn't use anything like that. Honestly, if you can book your own flight online, you can book a flight in Concur. It's very intuitive for travel, in my opinion.

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