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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

I could do all this work, but I found that my focus and time management suffered since each government agency worked in a different way, and each kind of consulting required different skills. About half the time, we pick up the phone and call companies we think will make good partners, and the other half of the time they approach us.

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The art of finding the perfect venue for your corporate event

Practically Perfect PA

The best venue finders are experienced negotiators able to secure rates that are lower than if you booked direct. After an initial chat with us on the phone, confirm your requirements in writing, and be as specific as possible about numbers of attendees, location, budget, facilities, ambience and anything else your event needs.

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How to overcome the downsides of contract work

Page Personnel

More often than not, the contracts are fairly straightforward: you negotiate the job you have to complete, and how much the company will pay you. That’s not to say there’s no room for negotiations but in typical situations, it’s about a flat fee. Just remember that phone of yours does have silent mode.

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Answering Reader Mail: Career Progression, Wearing Different Hats, and Realistic Expectations

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I'm an EA to the President and CEO of a North American marketing agency that is growing rapidly. When we were a smaller agency, I was the EA and Office Manager for a smaller facility. Otherwise, you wouldn’t be the EA to the President and CEO of a North American marketing agency that is growing rapidly.

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Service Untitled» Blog Archive » Diapers.com uses customer service.

Service Untitled

The company has developed software explicitly designed that allows it to ship orders the same day until 6:00 PM and has negotiated discounted rates with the major shipping carriers. The site also offers a referral program with cash incentives, and the customer service toll-free phone numbers and contact information are easily accessible.

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

Success

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. Great work is almost never urgent work, and so we get swept away by the ringing phone, the jerk in traffic, the phone bill that’s overdue.

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