Remove How To Remove Job Hunting Remove Mentoring Remove Promotion
article thumbnail

4 Ways to Leverage Your Comprehensive Professional Portfolio Strategy

All Things Admin

Do you want to prove that you can do what you say you can, stand out in a job search, take advantage of career opportunities that come your way, and easily demonstrate why you deserve a raise or promotion? Then you need a professional portfolio!

Resume 52
article thumbnail

Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

Office Dynamics

A certification can certainly help you get promoted to an executive assistant position or be considered for an executive assistant position. There are some certification programs out there that, unfortunately, don’t teach you how to build partnership with your executive or how to manage your executive’s day; but our programs do. (JB).

IAAP 100
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Resenting Your Boss & How to Overcome It

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It says a lot when your boss wants to grow you within the company and promote you. I mentored other younger assistants. I started this blog while temping/job hunting and I was allowed to write or do personal side projects as long as it was not interfering with my work.

Temping 40
article thumbnail

Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

LOL A couple of people have asked vaguely related questions so how to find that information is below, which I will expound upon to specifically answer your question. When you interview for new jobs, do your yearly job performance reviews, network, or whenever appropriate, make it clear you have bigger goals.

Temping 40
article thumbnail

Even More Questions Answered

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

How can you make yourself easily found? Sign up with the major job hunting sites with your resume and profile, join social network sites geared towards work, and meet with every temp agency in town just to be safe. It's an inside look on how decisions are made, companies are run, and how to sharpen your soft skills.

article thumbnail

Answering Reader Mail: The Other Assistant Isn't As Qualified - Should I Express My Interest?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Kudos to you for thinking about how to better your career and thinking of a strategy and plan NOW and looking for opportunities and creating your own luck! So the executive only has to learn and adjust to their job while the assistant is already in the know. Job hunting and dating are very similar.

Email 40
article thumbnail

10 gifts to give your career

On The Job

Those who help the company become more innovative or strategic will make themselves key players – and those are the people a company is more likely to retain and promote. Find a mentor. Ask someone you respect and feel you really connect with for feedback on what you’re doing with your career or in your job. Get more training.

Gifts 100