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Why You Should Reach Out to a Staffing Agency to Hire an Executive Assistant

C-Suite Assistants

If you are hiring for a personal assistant, executive assistant, or administrative assistant, one of the best things you can do is partner with a respected staffing agency. What Can a Staffing Agency Do for You? You might be surprised by all of the roles a recruitment agency can fill during the hiring process.

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How to Create Strategic Partnerships

Success

Make it explicit that you want to learn everything you can about them in short order,” Gage says. Principal Company: Jennifer Schaus & Associates, a government contract consulting network Strategic partnership philosophy: Align consultants with different specialties to better serve clients and boost everyone’s bottom line.

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While in Transition, Are You Keeping Pace with Technology?

Job Advice Blog

Hiring managers are more interested in hiring someone who’s up-to-date as opposed to someone who’s been out for a while and who lacks the latest technology skills and therefore whose learning curve will be steep and possibly prolonged. Many recruiters and hiring managers take advantage of them, and so should you.

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So, How about a Career Coach?

Job Advice Blog

Paid in full by that past employer, the service may entitle the person in transition to limited, one-on-one coaching; group networking; seminars and workshops; assistance in resume writing; and access to the outplacement firm’s online databases to search for potential employers. Your best bet is to thoroughly check out a coach’s reputation.

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25 Self-Help Books You (Probably) Haven’t Read

Success

You’d better learn to lead yourself first. No cold calling, no website or marketing, no business cards or networking events. Marketing has a bad rap because many ad agencies think that he who shouts the loudest, wins. Sooner or later, every entrepreneur discovers that negotiation is an indispensable skill.

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Résumé + Interview = A Job

Job Advice Blog

His Web site includes a current and comprehensive list of job search networking groups in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and the city of New York, and the site is visited by thousands of people every month. I only recently learned that there are pros out there who could have been helping me all along. Feel good about yourself.

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Answering Reader Mail: How Long is it Fair to be a Temp for a Job?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

After only 2 weeks, I found a great company through a staffing agency and the position was full time working for a wonderful CEO. What did they learn? Keep in mind, the role of a staffing agency/HR is to work for the company and to protect the CEO/client, their company, and their business, and their money. How will they improve?

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