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The Vanishing Executive Assistant—NOT!

Office Dynamics

And yet assistants help file digital documents and manage calls through their cell phones, so the skills required for these tasks haven’t completely gone away. Executive assistants are running meetings, making hiring decisions, giving presentations, negotiating contracts, managing budgets and are considered co-leaders.

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How to overcome the downsides of contract work

Page Personnel

This serves as a way of ‘stocking up’ hours during the busy times, to cover you for either low times of year, or unexpected bills that might throw the budget out. In early 2019, throughout my vacation to Jogjakarta, Indonesia, I worked for at least four out of five nights I was there. If you are, you’ll please neither.