Practically Perfect PA

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

If you intend to use your personal account for your life outside of work I would suggest you think about which colleagues to connect with socially because you never know what could get back to senior management. Don’t post anything you wouldn’t want your manager to see. Do promote yourself and your achievements.

Social Media 100

Social Media Job Hunting Suppliers Twitter 100

Practically Perfect PA

DECEMBER 5, 2011

I decided to leave my previous employee in June 2010 but was job hunting for 6 months and when I did get the role I am in currently I had to complete a detailed application form, attend three interviews and sit two psychometric tests (for language and numerical skills). However, this just isn’t the case anymore.

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Interviewing 2003 Job Hunting Assertiveness 100

Practically Perfect PA

APRIL 12, 2016

Not getting promoted. On a piece of paper (I know I’m being old fashioned) write down 3 headings: Soft skills. Think about what skills people come to you for, what experiences you have that people talk to you about and what areas of expertise people ask you to help them with. Your soft skills are what make you brilliant.

Skills 100

Skills Networking 2016 Management 100

Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Are you “gift wrapped” to best promote your professionalism and spirit of excellence? Perhaps you aren’t job hunting, but have an idea you’d like to pitch to management. Differentiate yourself: determine how you can best benefit the company through your ideas, skills and experience.

Gifts 100

Gifts Job Hunting Resume Skills 100

Office Dynamics

DECEMBER 15, 2010

Are you “gift wrapped” to best promote your professionalism and spirit of excellence? Perhaps you aren’t job hunting, but have an idea you’d like to pitch to management. Differentiate yourself: determine how you can best benefit the company through your ideas, skills and experience.

Gifts 100

Gifts Job Hunting Resume Skills 100

Office Dynamics

MARCH 12, 2015

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).

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IAAP ASAP Administrative Professionals Training 100

Practically Perfect PA

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Recently, I’ve been reading quite a bit about job hopping and how common it is becoming, particularly for younger people entering the work force. It’s an interesting topic for me because as I said I have always been a job hopper. For me that has made job hopping worth it. I do find this topic really interesting.

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UPS Salary Negotiating International 100

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 11, 2014

I knew I didn’t want to job hunt for more than 6-9 months if I didn’t have to. And as I was working, job hunting and/or temping, I had to find other sources of happiness. So I read a lot about happiness, job hunting, and a meaningful life. I’m not sure how your job hunting experience was.

Job Hunting 40

Job Hunting Salary Temping Learning 40

On The Job

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

an online career management service in Palo Alto, Calif., job seekers only talk, or e-mail, an average of eight people outside of their current organization on a monthly basis. Nothing will help you find another job or protect your career more than having a monster business network. I think this skill needs to learned young.

Networking 100

Networking 2010 Job Hunting Skills 100

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 21, 2012

My question regards the difficulty I am having in reentering the admin support field despite the fact that I have ten years of office management and administrative support experience. I thoroughly enjoy the diversity of these positions, the project management, and the role of admin support. Cast a wider net and be flexible.

Temping 40

Temping Resume Social Media Job Hunting 40

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

When you interview for new jobs, do your yearly job performance reviews, network, or whenever appropriate, make it clear you have bigger goals. State you’d love to be an EA and learn so much you can be promoted to coordinator, director, manager. 5) Look for jobs under different titles with the same skill set.

Temping 40

Temping 2012 Salary Job Hunting 40

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 16, 2012

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. The amount of skill, pressure, stress, and problem solving differs at each of those levels. How can you make yourself easily found? How do you do that?

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Agencies Resume Job Hunting Temping 40

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. But in reality – the most useful skill that opened a lot of doors for me were my soft skills. That one unassuming, non-meaty, first temp gig got me my first CEO EA job and eventually my promotion to project manager down the road.

Interviewing 40

Interviewing Temping Resume Agencies 40

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 26, 2014

It says a lot when your boss wants to grow you within the company and promote you. More importantly, once you figure that out, it can help you MANAGE your feelings and perspective during the day whenever you get frustrated or every hour if needed. It sounds like things are going swimmingly with your productivity and work performance.

Temping 40

Temping Stress Job Hunting ASAP 40

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

Her skill set it basically calendar and coffee. Her skill set it basically calendar and coffee. Successful executives are rarely lazy and slow if they earned their title from being promoted through hard work and not nepotism, etc. Job hunting and dating are very similar. This is a bad idea!

Email 40

Email Calendars Retirement Legal 40

On The Job

DECEMBER 28, 2009

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. Your resume should always be able to reflect that you’ve kept up on the latest training and skills. Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

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Gifts 2009 Social Media 2010 100