Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I’ve been on many interviews over my career and have encountered many different interview styles - the behavioral interview, the panel format with a few people interviewing me at once, the “mean” interviewer, and so forth. One interview “style” that caught me off guard was the NON interview style.

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Office Dynamics

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Meet the entire Office Dynamics International Team –. Joan Burge – Founder and CEO of Office Dynamics International since 1990. Your facilitator will walk you through step-by-step as you work on your project. The post An Interview with the Office Dynamics Team appeared first on Office Dynamics.

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Success

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

identifies five key behaviors for all “space-claiming queens”: use your voice and posture to project confidence and power, end self-sabotage, forge connections, neutralize unsafe spaces and unite across differences. VanCort chooses her guests by finding and interviewing women who are doing “extraordinary things.” Raise Your Voice.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 13, 2023

It stands for: P – Project or problem A – Action R – Result For each item, summarize the skills the project or work sample illustrates. include: What was the project or the problem that I worked on? description and screenshots or visuals that represent the project. What was the action that I took? Embed the P.A.R.

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Small Business Labs

JULY 14, 2011

We have 4 interns working with us this summer.    Interns, of course, are a challenge to manage.    But we think the good of interns way outweighs the bad.  Our interns, being college students, are natural Internet users.  With They're also natural users of social media. 

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Success

MAY 16, 2024

Half [of] your score was your judge’s interview and your grade transcript. The day of the pageant, she got up on stage and modeled the clothes she made while projecting close-up images of the garments’ details using a Kodak carousel slide projector that she and her father had made. So, that was pretty easy. I don’t play the piano.

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Success

MARCH 6, 2024

She had led brand and marketing at the likes of Kraft, Hasbro and Oracle—and her eclectic experience in internal consulting, project management, process improvement and consumer packaged goods helped give her the tools to strike out on her own as an entrepreneur. Travel can be so, so powerful,” she says.

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Success

JULY 27, 2022

Virtual tools and resources can help you hire, manage projects, collaborate with far-flung team members and even make it look like you really do have an office. For project management, Devesh Dwivedi of BreakingThe9to5Jail.com says “I love BaseCamp. oDesk is a directory of international contractors.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In a 2019 story published in The New York Times , readers received a glimpse into how upsetting and disorienting a job interview can be for Ben Hirasuna, a person with autism who often doesn’t leave home for weeks. Dell has a neurodivergent job application system, and Microsoft has a Neurodiversity Hiring Program , for example.

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Success

MARCH 4, 2024

The podcast] was bootstrapped by us… and even though there is more revenue coming in, the business model has shifted somewhat, but it’s still a passion project, even at this point in its evolution,” Ian explains. Besides sharing untold stories, they’ve had the opportunity to interview some well-known people like Maya Angelou.

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Allwork

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Imagine you’re interviewing a candidate for a new job, and you have a sense that something’s up. Unfortunately, extensive studies show that our feelings about candidates in interviews offer poor predictions of future employee success. What works much better than typical unstructured interviews are structured ones.

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Allwork

MARCH 15, 2023

According to Tori Shepherd , manager at the International WELL Building Institute (IWBI) , mental health has become a key element of workplace design. The benefits of biophilic elements within the workplace were highlighted in a recent Allwork.Space interview with Mellissa Cooksey, Senior Interior Project Manager at Perkins & Will.

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Success

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

At GroupM, she oversees a team of strategists working with clients to unlock audience growth opportunities through data and leads special projects that support the development of new products aimed at cultivating responsible media investments.

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Success

MARCH 21, 2022

I’d noticed a pattern in the clients I would turn down—rather than saying no to work that didn’t suit my skills, I’d developed a habit of turning down projects based on scale. The tipping point was when I turned down a potential client and referred them to someone else only for them to hire me to execute the campaign.

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Success

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For me, the internal conviction took 10 years, as I did not see anyone that looked like me in leadership roles, so I inadvertently settled,” she says. In a recent interview with New York Living , Abji explains that this should not be a “transaction” but rather a “process.” Therefore, she got comfortable with “small success,” she says.

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Success

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

We share war stories over happy hours, at backyard barbecues and sometimes via an international phone call if need be. My boss’s lackluster interest in my projects and work made me realize I needed to manage myself. By now most of us have encountered that boss. The bully, the blamer, the manipulator, etc. Lacking Leadership.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

APRIL 21, 2024

An immigrant to the US, she has 11+ years of experience as an EA with international companies and counting – now on the US side! An immigrant to the US, she has 11+ years of experience as an EA with international companies and counting – now on the US side! She speaks Russian, English and some German.

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Today’s Day in the life: Diana Brandl, Senior EA at Mister Spex, Founder and CEO of The Socialista Projects, Head of IMA Berlin and National Social Relations Officer, speaker, coach and mentor and all round superstar EA! Plus, all the calendar management, involvement in projects and of course leading my Office team.

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Workplace Insight

MARCH 5, 2023

Companies all over the world have been urged to seek new digital tools, solutions and methods for communicating, making decisions, and activating projects remotely. For example, employees are often only interviewed when they leave the company, when it is already too late.

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Admin Awards

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

To read this interview in Executive Support Magazine visit: [link] Sunny Nunan is the CEO and Founder of the Admin Awards in the USA, created in honor of her mother, a life-long administrative professional Can we start with a little background information? Where are you from and what is your background?

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Allwork

DECEMBER 2, 2022

He was the golden boy of crypto : lobbying and donating to prominent government figures, giving interviews to numerous high-profile venues, and rescuing failing crypto projects — in fact, he was nicknamed crypto’s J.P. However, many charity projects to which he promised funding are now in limbo, with their funding withdrawn.

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Success

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Tarrent-Arthur and Helen Cummings-Henry saw COVID-19 as an opportunity to form Righteous Uplifting Nourishing International, a global nonprofit organization whose message is to change lives one soul at a time. His Get Attitude podcast won a Communicator Award for Diversity & Inclusion for his 8:46 Interviews Stories of Black America.

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C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 28, 2023

Then, as a next step, you must figure out how to identify and evaluate these executive assistant skills as you go through the interview and screening process. Develop these questions and situations up front and ensure that all candidates are consistently asked the same questions as part of the interview process.

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On The Job

MARCH 16, 2020

But I have interviewed several people over the years who have found ways to overcome impostor syndrome, and are much happier and satisfied in their professional and private lives. Dr. Valerie Young, an international expert on impostor syndrome, offers these steps to overcome it: Break the silence. Right the rules. Develop a new script.

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BMT Office Administration

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In fact, it’s so important that one of the most common job interview questions is “how do you prioritize your work?” Here are some of the top ways that you can prioritize your current workload (or that you can tell potential employers that you will prioritize your work if you get asked during an interview).

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 9, 2016

I’ve been on many interviews over my career and have encountered many different interview styles - the behavioral interview, the panel format with a few people interviewing me at once, the “mean” interviewer, and so forth. One interview “style” that caught me off guard was the NON interview style.

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Allwork

MARCH 4, 2024

Having held key roles at Amazon, Wells Fargo, and American Family Insurance, Anastasia has honed her skills in managing internal politics and understanding diverse personalities within professional environments. And so I interned there. So a lot of that brings some internal politics. So it was luxe and it was great.

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Recruit CRM

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

For example, virtual recruiting might be employed at the top of the funnel, with in-person recruiting used for the final interviews. Then, only the top candidates would be invited to in-person interviews. 2. Second, they are an economical alternative to traditional in-person interviews.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 22, 2023

An executive, hiring manager, interviewer, or recruiter can go through this cohesive, easy-to-read collection of career highlights and instantly see the value you bring to an organization. Job Interviews. Most people who show up for a job interview are going to say that they can do the job. Why else would they be applying?)

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Success

JUNE 20, 2023

Study the interviews, speeches, biographies and autobiographies of successful men and women. Categorize projects and tackle related tasks together. Instead, bundle related projects together and tackle them all at once,” says Firas Kittaneh, co-founder of Amerisleep. Then do the same things until you get the same results.

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Practically Perfect PA

MAY 24, 2017

We still have a few days of the crowdfunding project left so we have increased our target. Real life job interview questions and answers. Everything you need to know about internal networks for assistants. We are now working on the programme, contacting speakers and looking at the technology we need to support the summit.

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Success

JUNE 19, 2022

You uncover outsourcing talent the same way you find employees: by networking in person or online, asking for recommendations and interviewing carefully. She recommends using sites like Asana.com or Evernote.com for managing projects. I use it with my interns for my blog. Who you gonna call?

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Ideas.Ted

AUGUST 12, 2021

Even if the world meets its most ambitious climate targets, one-third of the Himalayan glaciers will melt by the end of the century, a 2019 International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development report found. Eventually, they’ll face a difficult choice: Move south willingly, or let the mountain do it for them. Take the United States.

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LEADERASSISTANT.COM

JULY 31, 2022

‍ Lynn secured her undergraduate business degree with a triple major in International Business, Management and MIS (Management Information Systems) from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Do you have questions you’d like me to answer, guests you think I should interview, or suggested topics you’d like me to address on the show?

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 17, 2018

Attendance to national or international conferences together or individually. Dana Buchanan is a 20 plus year professional assistant with a passion for writing and offers a unique and professional perspective to projects and brainstorming sessions! Dana is also available to speak to small groups. www.danabuchanan.com.

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C-Suite Assistants

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

When your everyday to-do list is endless and your attention is frequently diverted from key projects and higher-level decisions to tend to administrative tasks, you know it’s time to hire an Executive Assistant. As the founder of a Startup, you and your management team are covering all the bases, and are stretched to their limits.

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Tips From T. Marie

SEPTEMBER 23, 2015

I debated applying internally. A few weeks later, when I was sure I wouldn’t hear anything, I was asked to interview online. I knew this company was really picky about who they interviewed with. The interview went well, and my head was excited. No, it was a remote, work from home job. I felt lucky. Could I do it?

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