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<blockquote data-quote="Jessica Booker" data-source="post: 64915" data-attributes="member: 2672">Might have said this elsewhere but my thoughts:- ensure your priorities are right. There maybe times where you have to cancel/postpone an informal coffee meeting because you have been given work to do and you need to do the best in that piece of work.- Ensure you are clear in your understanding of what has been said to you (often done by asking questions) and to help you remember what has been said, make notes.- People are often worried they will be seen as stupid/not good enough if they ask questions. Reality is you could be perceived as not interested/perceptive/considerate/motivated if you don’t.- Really struggling for work? Ask people what’s on the end of their to do list that they keep putting off due to more important work and ask them whether you could help them with that.- Prepare for things to take a lot longer than you expect. Prepare for things to come back to you past deadlines set. Prepare to have to redraft something several times or having to go and research more aspects of a matter more thoroughly.- You won’t be expected to do everything on your own or to have all the answers. Utilise the people around you for support. That could be anyone from a PA, to a fellow vac schemer, to a trainee, to someone in a business services role, to a partner.I could write pages and pages of advice on VS conversions, so if anyone has any specific questions they want answering, feel free to tag me in to a response on here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Jessica Booker, post: 64915, member: 2672"] Might have said this elsewhere but my thoughts: - ensure your priorities are right. There maybe times where you have to cancel/postpone an informal coffee meeting because you have been given work to do and you need to do the best in that piece of work. - Ensure you are clear in your understanding of what has been said to you (often done by asking questions) and to help you remember what has been said, make notes. - People are often worried they will be seen as stupid/not good enough if they ask questions. Reality is you could be perceived as not interested/perceptive/considerate/motivated if you don’t. - Really struggling for work? Ask people what’s on the end of their to do list that they keep putting off due to more important work and ask them whether you could help them with that. - Prepare for things to take a lot longer than you expect. Prepare for things to come back to you past deadlines set. Prepare to have to redraft something several times or having to go and research more aspects of a matter more thoroughly. - You won’t be expected to do everything on your own or to have all the answers. Utilise the people around you for support. That could be anyone from a PA, to a fellow vac schemer, to a trainee, to someone in a business services role, to a partner. I could write pages and pages of advice on VS conversions, so if anyone has any specific questions they want answering, feel free to tag me in to a response on here. [/QUOTE]

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