BELOW IS A GOOD EXAMPLE OF ONGOING EDUCATION:
She illustrates the commitment to ongoing education and her professional development by actively making education and her professional development a top priority on her annual goals with her employer. She continues to keep herself abreast and aware of all new programs and courses offered through her company’s Learning Express tool, which provides opportunities to participate in classroom-style workshops and online refresher courses in Microsoft software packages (i.e., Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Visio, etc.). She also is continually learning and refreshing her knowledge for all of the company’s safety programs (i.e., ergonomics, road safety, slips/trips/falls awareness, fire extinguisher updates for office and home safety) by participating in the online review and testing offered on an annual basis. She actively participates when her schedule will allow on webinars and webcasts offered by IAAP. She has been a CPS since 1992 and was recertified in 2005. She is the past President of her chapter, has served as the President-Elect of the chapter as well as chaired the Education and Nomination Committees. She has also served as the Chairman of the Division Nominations Committee. She currently is serving on the Student Chapter Committee of her chapter and is the co-lead of the Administrative Professional Network (APN) consisting of 250+ admins at the company which provides updates to the admins on all policies, procedures and system changes within the organization. In addition, she is the co-lead of the APN Development Team which seeks external speakers to present professional programs in order for the APN members to continually enhance their knowledge and skills in support of their profession.