Practically Perfect PA

MAY 6, 2015

There are a number of opportunities to sell your personal brand during the job hunting process. Before you do start the job hunting process do ensure your social media presence reflects your professionalism. There are so many assistants in the marketplace but how many have your unique attributes and skills?

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Practically Perfect PA

SEPTEMBER 2, 2013

For example if you are applying for an assistant role that supports a communications director do emphasis your marketing skills or if you are applying for your first role working with a board level executive ensure you highlight any previous experience working with senior members of staff. Working with recruitment agencies.

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Practically Perfect PA

JUNE 2, 2016

Hiring will no longer be based on typing speeds and shorthand ability; superb client facing skills, an affinity for tech, genuine flexibility and an ability to work creatively around problems are increasingly coming to the fore. I am now an entrepreneur, and run Sidekicks, an ethical secretarial recruitment agency based in London’s West End.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 25, 2009

So be warned - often unfairly, the first job you take out of college becomes your specialty. After I was laid off I of course had to go look for another job. I was called in for an interview at an agency and it was the assistant that did all the vetting of the candidates. In hindsight, there was fault in my thinking.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 16, 2012

Even though I am an EA with over 15 years of experience at the C-level, it seems that all the recruiting agencies I have approached still require an applicant to come in for an appointment to take their basic employment testing, and then only seem to be able to offer lower-level administrative jobs. And once you're in, you're in.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

State you’d love to be an EA and learn so much you can be promoted to coordinator, director, manager. And it’s not only important to state them to others, but for you yourself to live your life and to manage your career so you do 99% of the work and that 1% allows others to help you if they wish to get to you the next level.

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Practically Perfect PA

JANUARY 17, 2017

Firstly, you will probably have to apply to an agency first, through an online application. You then have to cross your fingers in the hope that your CV passes through whatever keyword algorithm they have in place that matches your CV with your potential employer’s job spec.

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