By Karen M. Silins, CRW, CCA – A+ Career & Resume
Is it time for you to clear out, clean up, and move forward to better organize your business?
I recently set about cleaning my office, which is something I have needed to do for a long time. I’m not talking about throwing away a few papers, but a total overhaul. Not only were there loose papers, but also notebooks full of papers, files, a credenza organizer, office supplies, old phone books…you get the picture. What I discovered was an incredible collection of treasures, and an incredible collection of junk. Some of what I saved absolutely amazed me; copies of old emails that were time sensitive, junk mail (why?), recipes never filed (a hobby of mine), all of my initial/old information about online and local competitors from when I initially started to pursue my business full-time, and lots of information in general printed from the Internet.
Today it seems all we have to do is point and click, and reams of paper just melt away, only to reappear elsewhere in our offices. Paperless society – I don’t think so! The amount of information available on the Internet is staggering, and how to keep it straight, along with the myriad of emails and snail mail is a constant struggle. Remember, in order to be effective résumé writers and career coaches, we have to access as much information about our profession as possible, and then we need a way to organize it for discernment.
Amazingly, the rest of my house (I home-office) remains relatively clean, despite a husband, mother (whom we take care of), brother (the more the merrier), 2 German Shepherds (one’s a puppy), 1 Rottweiler/Doberman mix (another puppy), 1 Yorkie, 1 Westie/Karin terrier mix, and 2 parakeets (a full house to be sure). However, the office all but explodes with paper, boxes, phone books, notebooks, books (I have an ongoing love affair with Amazon.com), and other assorted items, not to mention 2 computers, 4 printers, scanner, electric typewriter (just can’t seem to let it go), CD’s, fax machine, and credit card processing machine.
Although I certainly don’t claim to have all the answers, here are a few suggestions to “tame the office clutter monster,” which I have initiated since the first of the year (yes, this was actually one of my New Years resolutions).
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