Recently, the American Book Fest announced the winning authors and works and the finalists of the 2024 International Book Awards (IBA)...

This is one of the world's largest international book awards programs for popular, independent and self-published books. More than 500 winners and finalists have been announced in more than 100 categories.

Notably, the book "The Modern Day Assistant" by author Lucy Brazier won the Business: Careers category at the 2024 International Book Awards.

Speaking about the honor, Lucy said the award is not just for the team who published the book, but more importantly, it is for the nearly five hundred million Administration professionals around the world who consider this not just a job but a career to strive for. “Winning in the Career Category is the greatest recognition of all,” Lucy Brazier emphasized.

According to IBA, the book "The Modern day Assistant" has contributed to reshaping the role of administrative professionals and empowering them to become influential leaders in organizations. More than just a book, the social impacts that "The Modern day Assistant" brings can be considered a movement to strongly change the perception of the administrative role, especially when this job is assessed to be heavily influenced by the wave of technology.

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In Vietnam, the book was translated and published under the name "Modern Assistant".

MSc. Tran Thi Thu Huong, Executive Assistant to the Director of WWF Asia Pacific, believes that if administrative staff, secretaries and especially assistants in Vietnam understand their roles and development roadmap correctly, they will work more effectively and support their bosses to optimize work performance, contributing directly to the success of the leader and the business. On the other hand, if senior management members, directors and HR departments understand this work correctly, they will also recruit more accurately and make optimal use of human resources.

“In the modern era we are talking about, the assistant's job is not simply to take advantage of the help of technology and use technology proficiently. To break through in the future, modern assistants should start by building a new working mindset to adapt to the times and different business contexts."

In Vietnam, the book is translated and published under the name "Modern Assistant", copyrighted by Enlighten Books Assistant Profession Bookcase under Tran&Tran Vietnam Consulting and Training Company Limited. The bookcase was launched in April 2024 by founders Tran Thi Thu Huong and Tran Thi Kieu Anh, with the desire to share knowledge, skills and secrets of success in international administrative work closer to the assistant and office administration community in Vietnam.

The book focuses on introducing necessary knowledge and skills such as: communication, internal networking, foreign affairs, time management, political coordination in the workplace... This knowledge contributes to the formation of an excellent assistant, acting as a strategic partner of the leader; at the same time, it also provides orientations and development roadmaps on the journey of becoming an assistant. The author's honest stories and sharing have created great inspiration for all those who have, are and will pursue a career as an assistant in the world.