Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 16, 2010

The reality of being an EA is that while the phones, calendar, and travel are essentially the same in every office your boss and your team are always unique people with their own work styles and needs. I mention how I worked for all my CEOs because I was recruited away as a temp. Exhaust all resources.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 10, 2012

The company will ask that you charge everything from business travel to catered lunches on your credit card and they will reimburse you. You’d think that if you had a credit card, you’d be safe, but I once had to get a cashier’s check for almost $400 for a work event. Have cash in your bank account.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 13, 2011

As you are job hunting, think hard about if you want to temp, freelance, do contract work, temp-to-hire, or direct hire roles only and under which circumstance. And because executives are constantly traveling for weeks at a time, it may take a month or three just to finally meet everyone. Job hunt with focus. Everyone is busy.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 26, 2014

The point of the above exercise is to figure out if the solution is something that can be fixed with a little action/daily maintenance (go on vacation, take better care of yourself, respectively) or will take long term planning and goals/strategy (move closer to family or save enough money to travel for a year).

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OCTOBER 28, 2010

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

I'm pushed pretty far in terms of capacity on most days - one extra board meeting or event can result in a spiral of 60 hour weeks. EA work is typically admin work - phones, travels, calendars, expense reports, mtgs/luncheons, etc. Would hate to pass up this leadership opportunity if it could mean progression for me in the future.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

You answer the phone, book travel, offer beverages to guests, book meetings, prepare the conference room, order food, etc. In the event of an emergency or when family visits, it would be great for you to already know who the family members are. If you are out sick, a temp will have to sub for you. Do they know the vm passwords?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I work at a travel and event planning agency. We are a great resource for Executive Assistants (we have several that we work with currently) booking high level travel globally but I am having trouble reaching out to the right people. Most large companies have in house travel department or a pre-approved vendor and agency list.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 8, 2016

We also get a mini break when our boss is traveling as the stress level is generally lower and we can catch up on our workload. Other jobs, because they were temp to full time, I didn’t even have the benefits of paid vacation time or paid sick days for almost a year. During the interview process ask about the company culture.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

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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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

You recently wrote in a medium that’s probably more familiar to our readers: an article about your home in Miguasha that was published in National Geographic Traveler as one of the world’s 50 destinations of a lifetime. Yosie – De temps en temps, j’ai le goût de faire de quoi en français, ou traduire mon blogue.

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