Professional Assistant Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2007

Heres an example of what happened with me. We hired a temp to do some simple clerical work for us, but realized once she left, that the work was inadequate and there were spelling mistakes along with the mail merge list not being correct, that we supplied to her. Retrieve Your Files with Ease Is You Boss Not Giving You Enough Work?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 10, 2012

There are numerous examples of people stealing from companies or doing illegal things. Sometimes companies don’t validate for parking especially if you are doing testing at a temp agency and are there for a few hours. Thank you cards, buying people coffee when you network or need advice, thank you gifts, and postage all add up.

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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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Office Dynamics

MARCH 12, 2015

Is it possible to get a list of attendee email addresses to network after the webinar? Here is an example of a worksheet Office Dynamics put together outlining the topics we are covering at our 22 nd Annual Conference for Administrative Excellence as a tool assistants can use to give to their executive.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 12, 2010

I spent the next four months resting, soul-searching, temping here and there and took a 2 week vacation. For example - a long commute, working more than X amount of hours, etc.) Some of them might include taking new or refresher courses, doing informational interviews, networking, and volunteering. So I quit my job.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

3) Work with temping and recruiting agencies – all of them When you are looking for a job, contact every temp and recruiting agency in town. I actively grow my LinkedIn network every week, if not every day. When I hear about a company that interests me for any reason, I look for people who work there to add to my network.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 16, 2007

Build your own network! Virtual workers can be from a “Temp-Agency&# or a from contracting firms. Both of these relationships are good for your cost-planning because they are not fixed, permanent costs, they are variable cost, meaning, when the project is finished the contract for your temp-workers, contractors finishes too.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 10, 2009

Recently, a temp worker at my job gave me another Google tip. Example: If youre looking for a Blockbuster in Arlington, Texas you can send this text message: Blockbuster 76001 Pretty neat. Finally, I asked her how she knew the answers and what was she doing to get the information? It was then she introduced me to Google. 23, 1 p.m. (New

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 11, 2014

And as I was working, job hunting and/or temping, I had to find other sources of happiness. Case in point, I worked for a short time at a social networking website.) For example, I ABSOLUTELY love learning, helping people, and relaxing. I knew I didn’t want to job hunt for more than 6-9 months if I didn’t have to.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

For example, you’ve mentioned that you want to be paid for what you do, for the hours that go into your work and exposing yourself so much to your fans. On our blog, for example, we write three times a week, regularly, religiously. Yosie – De temps en temps, j’ai le goût de faire de quoi en français, ou traduire mon blogue.

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