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Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

Office Dynamics

Private colleges may seem expensive but they offer many scholarships to help offset this cost. As the assistant wanting to get approval, you would fill in the Goal/Learning Objectives column and then present that to your executive and show the benefits of each. It goes back to what I said about your career goals and aspirations.

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Bored to Tears at Work - Help!

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I knew I didn’t want to job hunt for more than 6-9 months if I didn’t have to. And as I was working, job hunting and/or temping, I had to find other sources of happiness. So I read a lot about happiness, job hunting, and a meaningful life. I’m not sure how your job hunting experience was.

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Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

You care less, you’re easily annoyed, you start to do a cost-benefit analysis, you feel resentful, and you feel short changed. 2) Make it clear you have bigger goals. When you interview for new jobs, do your yearly job performance reviews, network, or whenever appropriate, make it clear you have bigger goals.

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Will This Tough Job Market Change Generation Y?

On The Job

And I do understand that money does not buy happiness, etc etc, but we do heroes, mentors and models of good behavior. Those of us who have been in the workforce for a longer period of time owe it to ourselves to help them, mentor them and encourage them. Do you have a goal in mind for your career?

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

6) Be strategic about your career plan and job hunt. Know your goal and work backwards and figure out a vague flexible timeline of goals and promotions needed. Just being in their presence means being informally mentored by osmosis. What is your most cringe-worthy moment? How did you recover? (or