Congratulations to:

VICKI FAINT

Winner of the

2007 AAPNZ Administrative Professional of the Year Award
(in association with Recruitment Solutions)

Vicki has the good fortune to be the Executive Assistant to Dr Helen Anderson, Chief Executive of the Ministry of Research, Science and Technology.  She has worked with Helen for the last two years.  Before that Vicki worked in the private sector for 23 years. 

Leaving school without many qualifications but with good typing, shorthand and English skills, it was assumed Vicki’s future was to work in an office.  Her EA career started as a 16-year-old “office junior” for an accountant in Palmerston North.  That young woman had little idea of the immensely rewarding and challenging 23 years that lay ahead!  Vicki is still working in the same career and loving every moment of it. 

Today Vicki strives to be the very best she can in everything she does.  Her personal philosophy is to be honest, conscientious, positive, versatile, punctual, trustworthy and effective.

Vicki’s goal is to be respected as a competent and successful achiever, and to be employed in a position that provides a challenge to her capabilities and allows her to continue developing as an individual.

The highlights of Vicki’s career to date are:

2007 Administrative Professional of the Year

2004 Wellington PA of the Year

Public Speaking for the first time at an EA/PA Conference

Organising the Ministry’s Annual Stakeholder Functions

Winning this award was a very personal achievement for Vicki who is not the kind of person who would normally stand up and put herself in the limelight. But she had a goal of building her own self-belief and putting her name forward to be the 2007 AAPNZ Administrative Professional of the Year (in association with Recruitment Solutions), going through a panel interview and delivering a speech to 300 people have helped her move towards that goal.

Being a working mum Vicki has always put her family first no matter what, though as she has grown and developed over the years she has learned that it is also very important for her to do a few things for herself along the way.

Outside working life Vicki spends as much time as she can with her much loved son and husband.  Vicki’s leisure time is consumed with the normal working mum “running around” syndrome and watching her son play cricket and soccer. 

Photos below - Vicki Faint, Friday Rountree (AAPNZ National President) and Moira Jones (2006 Administrative Professional of the Year winner)