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Chaya Milchtein Empowers Women by Educating Them About Cars

Success

I was aging out of foster care—it was 2013, and I was pretty desperate to find a job,” she explains. Unsure of her next move, she consulted with a career coach who suggested that Milchtein should start a blog related to automotive education. I started this blog, and people were really receptive to it,” she says.

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What can assistants expect in 2013

Practically Perfect PA

Well 2012 is over and done with and we are now already two days into 2013. In honour of it now being 2013 I´ve got 13 things I think we can expect to see in the year ahead. With the assistant role now encompassing so many varied tasks we should expect to see a rise in training for assistants in 2013. Role diversification.

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Follow the Science: Ze Frank Teaches Us True Facts and Life Lessons

Success

If you knew him only from his trailblazing forays into the video blogging realm, where he was renowned for quirky, crowdsourced art projects, you might not guess that the career of Hosea Frank (Ze for short, pronounced “zay”) has been bookended by scientific roles. They’d misheard his birth name as José. No problem. And so, back to science.

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The Seven Deadly Organizing Sins: Greed

Clutter Coach

Think about how contented you can be when you’re traveling and away from all those anchors, those dead weights (also, think about setting them free for someone else to appreciate them!). Originally posted 2013-08-03 18:59:14. Step back and see what really matters in your life.

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Career Success A to Z: N is for Non-Negotiable

Eat Your Career

I’m not willing to travel every other week the way I did for nearly a year in 2013. Members have the option to sign up and receive blog posts directly in their email inbox as soon as they are published. I’m not willing to give up any piece of it for my career—and I shouldn’t have to. You might feel the same way.

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Pursuing Happiness at Work & Home in 2013

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

As I brainstorm, the ideas I have come up with are blogging weekly, taking guitar lessons, tutoring kids, photography, sewing, random acts of kindness, skateboarding lessons, traveling, joining a book club, and cooking/baking. And anyone can email me questions and I respond only via this blog, not to your personal address.

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EMEA East – Personal Branding Q&A

Practically Perfect PA

I was interviewed by the lovely Elena Aylott from EMEA East about my blog and social media in general. Why did you decide to write a blog? I think a lot of assistants are in the same position and appreciate the blog because I approach it with that honesty. That inspires me to write this free blog! Yes yes yes!