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The Predictions for Small Business Saturday 2023 Are In—Here’s How to Optimize Them for Your Business

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Not only did it stick, but it became a profitable and pivotal day for businesses looking to their end-of-year profit goals. Consider looking to contractors, temps or other nontraditional employees to ensure you can optimize the day’s profit potential. It’s worth a little effort—last year, American Express reported $17.9

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Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

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A certification can certainly help you get promoted to an executive assistant position or be considered for an executive assistant position. You have to show your executive and business owner how investing in your development will benefit them or the company. There are a lot of good training programs out there and reputable companies.

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Answering Reader Mail: Re-Entering the Admin Field

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Temp, volunteer, apply for PT work and list that as your present role. While your ultimate goal is FT job in admin, the only thing that will get you there is recent experience in admin - the good ol' fashioned catch-22. Social media is big right now, both for companies and individuals.

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Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

2) Make it clear you have bigger goals. When you interview for new jobs, do your yearly job performance reviews, network, or whenever appropriate, make it clear you have bigger goals. State you’d love to be an EA and learn so much you can be promoted to coordinator, director, manager. When you job hunt keep this in mind.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Tell us your story on how you went from temping in LA to being the EA of high-profile CEOs. I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. So I left that temp gig and went to work for the CEO.

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The Realities of Job Hunting As A High Level Executive Assistant

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Perhaps you are already a 2nd or 3rd assistant to someone high profile and you want to run the office of your executive as you get promoted through the years. Whether you are a department assistant or work for a smaller company, you will be able to find a job more easily. Don't get sidetracked from your life and career goals.

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Answering Reader Mail: From Lawyer to Executive Assistant?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I like many aspects of my job, but the most important thing for me is working for the right company, in the right industry and with the potential for growth, and my current position offers none of those things. The shortest route is to look for temp work thru agencies or TaskRabbit, Craiglist, or volunteer. 2) How manageable are you?

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