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A Comprehensive Guide to Hiring an Executive Assistant

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Traditionally, executive assistants were seen as secretarial staff, making copies and answering phone calls. Today’s EAs are strategic partners who manage projects, make travel arrangements, and participate in high-level decision-making processes. Describe a time when you had to handle confidential information.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

Youve sent out dozens, or maybe even hundreds, of resumes and cover letters. This morning the phone rang - youve got an interview! Your resume & cover letter have done their jobs, and have piqued the employers interest - now your job is to make it as easy as possible for them to decide to offer you the job.

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Riding that Job Wave

Who's the Real Boss?

So ensure all the irrelevant information is kept to the last page/s (i.e Listing the reason why you left an employer is really important, especially if you want to make it to at least to a phone screening. Be upfront in your cover letter. your hobbies, schooling, technical skills etc).

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The Path to Chief of Staff Whitepaper

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Which three phone apps can you not live without? And, Pearson adds, an EA typically compiles only the information their executive asks for, whereas a Chief of Staff “focuses on the information they know their boss needs — even if the boss doesn’t know it yet.” How do you make the transition internally? –

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. I opened the phone book and signed up with every single one in town. That one unassuming, non-meaty, first temp gig got me my first CEO EA job and eventually my promotion to project manager down the road. How did you recover? (or