Eat Your Career

DECEMBER 12, 2013

That means raises, promotions and job security for you. Aggressively negotiating with existing vendors for better pricing. Imagine a resume full of value-add accomplishments like this. The information you gather will be critically important in future performance reviews or when writing your next resume. Tweet This!

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 29, 2010

I would like to get better assignments, promoted, or get a raise before a few more years go by. You also have more negotiating leverage for a better salary and projects. I can not stress volunteering enough to spruce up your resume for when are you ready to leave your current company.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MARCH 15, 2013

During this time, you do NOT job hunt but do your prep work of sprucing up your resume, LinkedIn, putting your resume online, networking, and notifying people you can interview starting after a specific date. 5) List your resume confidentially on resume sites. This also meant having a savings account to use as my income.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 30, 2012

Dear MA, Congratulations on the new role and promotion! You’ll get a sense within the first few weeks and failing that, you can always send one polite email for a lunch invitation and if they don’t respond, don’t follow up. This will help in updating your resume, negotiating a raise, and how you want your career to unfold.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I will answer your questions by addressing your entire email and I will answer from two perspectives - 1) I used to and still sometimes work in a recruiting capacity and 2) as a job applicant and EA. Your termination is more “in the past” than being the focal point of your resume because your first job description will be the temping stuff.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 11, 2014

For any new readers, I will answer your entire email line by line and explain general information which may or may not apply to you, and give you some things to ponder. It also looks bad on one’s resume. I also thought about money, salary negotiation, and how I was spending my time. Many thanks! I feel your pain.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

What REALLY maddens me are my 20-something fellow karate dojo colleagues – they’re looking for jobs but tell them to put up a personal resume website to highlight their skills, and they react like a deer in the headlights. Reply Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach ( @barbaraling ) April 12, 2010 at 1:50 pm Totally agree with you.

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