On The Job

APRIL 27, 2009

Several months ago, I blogged about the power of telling a story in your career. While it is tough to tell a story in a resume, there are many more opportunities, Hansen told me, such as a cover letter than tells a story of your career interest and determination or stories about solving a problem.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Hello New & Returning Readers, TheLadders.com is currently doing a project where they are looking for people to provide tips to new college grads about to enter the working world. Perhaps they will offer to critique your resume or introduce you to someone else to do an informational interview with. She gave me her business card.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MARCH 6, 2013

Google for the UTA list and sign up for all email lists and job boards for the entertainment industry, network with people you know, send your resume and cover letter snail mail to every company you want to work at to the attn of the recruiting department, and establish an online presence so headhunters find you via LinkedIn and job sites.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 1, 2012

Aside from this blog, I also write over at jobstr.com under Hollywood Executive Assistant. 1) Focus your resume on your skills/talents vs the job title/chronology. Whatever bullet points and items they list that you do well, lift those sentences verbatim from the job description and put them in your resume. Happy reading!

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The Shrink for Entrepreneurs

JUNE 19, 2013

As my assistant, you will also be tasked with project management tasks and responsibility for those initiatives I launch with the time you created. Here are some things that would be super amazing if they happened to be on your resume, but are not hard requirements: You have experience with WordPress blog software.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 17, 2012

“First of all I would like to say thank you for the wealth of incredibly useful and generous advice on your blog! Dear SH, Glad you enjoy my blog! Any recruiter who sees your resume and finds out you used to be a lawyer will silently wonder the following questions. If the fit isn’t close enough, they toss or file your resume.

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On The Job

MARCH 10, 2010

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, March 10, 2010 Do You Have What it Takes to Work in a Non-Profit? It’s something you should highlight in your resume and cover letter.”

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

For any readers of my blog and my column , you’ll know I hail from Japan and also consider myself an Angeleno! And as I climbed the admin ladder, when I got recruited for a project manager role, the person who referred me was also someone I had met when I was “just a temp” stuffing those thousands of envelopes. What did you study?

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Men With Pens

MAY 23, 2010

Any email that begins with, “I probably don’t have enough experience,&# “I’m not sure I’m what you’re looking for,&# or even “I’m sure you probably have much better writers sending in their resume,&# pretty much forces the reply, “You’re right. David´s last blog.

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