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A Comprehensive Guide to Hiring an Executive Assistant

LEADERASSISTANT.COM

Today’s EAs are strategic partners who manage projects, make travel arrangements, and participate in high-level decision-making processes. This improves search engine visibility and attracts candidates who are searching for executive assistant positions with particular skills or in specific sectors.

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The Admin’s Guide to Career Organization

All Things Admin

As admins, we’re always trying to organize all the pieces and parts of our professional lives – from workspaces to meetings to travel plans. Cover letter. Your cover letter is often the first touch point you have with a potential employer, so you need to make the right impression. Showcase your skills.

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Riding that Job Wave

Who's the Real Boss?

your hobbies, schooling, technical skills etc). So if you went travelling for six months, then you need to spell that out. But if you leave it off then you need to replace it with something else (travel, working on your own business, caring for a family member etc). Be upfront in your cover letter.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I was interviewed earlier this month and so I pasted it below. When people would ask me in interviews, my first answer was, “No nepotism here!” But in reality – the most useful skill that opened a lot of doors for me were my soft skills. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies.

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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

Below this, add short segments listing your skills and abilities, then your professional experience for the past 10 years, then your education and accolades, limiting the entire resume to no more than two pages total. I have also participated in several fruitful phone screens, and I have an onsite interview scheduled in the coming days.

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Atlanta, Georgia: The City that Smiles

Laughing all the Way to Work

Click on that and you will find a wealth of templates from a resume, cover letter, minutes, agenda and many others. I am now leaving Atlanta to travel to Birmingham and the impression I am left with is I have never been in a city that smiles so much. Admin in the Spotlight: Interview with Lynn Holgat. 5, 2010 at 12 p.m.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Being a Hiring Manager Doesn't Give.

On The Job

Now, I think its time I gave some pointers to interviewers. Rules for being a good hiring manager/interviewer: 1. Have a system in place to acknowledge that youve received a resume and/or cover letter when they come flooding in. And not doing your job may mean you are on the other side of the interviewing table -- soon.