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Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

While you will have to work out of their home, if you are in charge of everyone else, and all those projects, that's equivalent to being a project manager at a company. The point is to assist them but not just pick up their drying cleaning and walk their dog, but to manage their life and schedule as close to a regular EA job.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

If you can get a mentor n(within or outside of your company), that might help also. Being a PA covers a lot of topics that range across the board – from being a celebrity PA to working as a PA for a construction company or a law enforcement agency. No, however, English A-Level an advantage ie. communications.

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Introducing the SUCCESS 125

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And for the sixth time, we have done the research to find the 25 most influential leaders in this space: the coaches, speakers, authors, mentors and thought leaders to know in 2022. He is a teacher, a mentor, a coach, a convener, and a doer. Coach, mentor, creator. But this year, there’s more. Elena Cardone. Cindy Castillo.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I found every single one of my jobs through a temping agency or by referral. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. 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. How did you recover? (or