Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 30, 2012

You’ll get a sense within the first few weeks and failing that, you can always send one polite email for a lunch invitation and if they don’t respond, don’t follow up. This will help in updating your resume, negotiating a raise, and how you want your career to unfold. 6) Don’t argue, be kind, and be concise.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 29, 2010

You also have more negotiating leverage for a better salary and projects. I can not stress volunteering enough to spruce up your resume for when are you ready to leave your current company. Email them saying you’d love 2-3 sentences if they feel comfortable commenting on how you did x, y, z on the _ project.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 13, 2010

As soon as you get an email or piece of paper, deal with it. If I flag it for later I at least say I got their email. In all emails with other assistants we started referring to our bosses by initials only. This is part 3. I hate my inbox filled up with unread messages or paper.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 18, 2013

I will answer your questions by addressing your entire email and I will answer from two perspectives - 1) I used to and still sometimes work in a recruiting capacity and 2) as a job applicant and EA. Your termination is more “in the past” than being the focal point of your resume because your first job description will be the temping stuff.

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Recruit CRM

AUGUST 10, 2020

Most candidates have one format of resume that they have created painstakingly, and they end up sending it with every job application. So, if a candidate is applying for a ‘customer service’ job, she needs to highlight in the resume , similar jobs held before or even the ‘service’ or ‘support’ aspect of other jobs held earlier.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 11, 2014

For any new readers, I will answer your entire email line by line and explain general information which may or may not apply to you, and give you some things to ponder. It also looks bad on one’s resume. I also thought about money, salary negotiation, and how I was spending my time. Many thanks! I feel your pain.

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Men With Pens

APRIL 11, 2010

What REALLY maddens me are my 20-something fellow karate dojo colleagues – they’re looking for jobs but tell them to put up a personal resume website to highlight their skills, and they react like a deer in the headlights. Reply Barbara Ling, Virtual Coach ( @barbaraling ) April 12, 2010 at 1:50 pm Totally agree with you.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

Since my last email to you, I have found an executive assistant position. I can only go off of what you state in your email. It will also be hard to negotiate a salary because you're stating upfront how little you make which may also make them think you don't have the proper experience. You don't want to appear as a job hopper.

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Men With Pens

MARCH 23, 2010

This sounds like the generic stuff you put on your resume when you’re just out of college and don’t realize that your resume shouldn’t sound like everyone else’s, and also that everyone in the world is lying when they say they are “goals-oriented.” No one is goals-oriented. Anything else I should have picked up from this post?

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