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The Predictions for Small Business Saturday 2023 Are In—Here’s How to Optimize Them for Your Business

Success

Not only did it stick, but it became a profitable and pivotal day for businesses looking to their end-of-year profit goals. Consider looking to contractors, temps or other nontraditional employees to ensure you can optimize the day’s profit potential. It’s worth a little effort—last year, American Express reported $17.9

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Answering Reader Mail: Re-Entering the Admin Field

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Temp, volunteer, apply for PT work and list that as your present role. While your ultimate goal is FT job in admin, the only thing that will get you there is recent experience in admin - the good ol' fashioned catch-22. Get a basic understanding and learn how to promote yourself or your future employer so you can network better.

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Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

Office Dynamics

A certification can certainly help you get promoted to an executive assistant position or be considered for an executive assistant position. Private colleges may seem expensive but they offer many scholarships to help offset this cost. It goes back to what I said about your career goals and aspirations. When is the next webinar?

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

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I've heard of EAs who are promoted to Operations or Facilities roles later on in their careers but at this point, I am playing both roles. It also costs a lot to hire someone else because finding the time to find the right person and training them is expensive in energy, manpower, resources, and money. Why do I bring this up?

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Tell us your story on how you went from temping in LA to being the EA of high-profile CEOs. 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. So I left that temp gig and went to work for the CEO.

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Bored to Tears at Work - Help!

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

And as I was working, job hunting and/or temping, I had to find other sources of happiness. I would rather go to a pilates studio that has classes late at night that fits my work hours vs going to a gym that only costs $30 a month. I knew I didn’t want to job hunt for more than 6-9 months if I didn’t have to. 3) Have a strategy.