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Answering Reader Mail: Re-Entering the Admin Field

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I thoroughly enjoy the diversity of these positions, the project management, and the role of admin support. Temp, volunteer, apply for PT work and list that as your present role. Whenever I look for a job, I send out over 200 individual emails telling people what I've been up to. This experience spanned from 1997 to 2010.

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Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

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Maybe you can be their estate manager in charge of everything from renovations, chef, gardener, pool boy, driver, security staff to nanny. While you will have to work out of their home, if you are in charge of everyone else, and all those projects, that's equivalent to being a project manager at a company.

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

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If you no longer want to stay an EA, perhaps you can transition to be the Office Manager, Facilities Manager, or even become coordinator, associate, biz analyst, project manager, or director in a different department. And anyone can email me questions and I respond only via this blog, not to your personal address.

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10 Tips on Taking a Vacation (and Derek DelGaudio)

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The mistakes were along the lines of typos, not explaining a request so it was 100% dummy-proof, and not catching a detail buried on a multi-page group email that had been forwarded to so many people by the time it got to me that I had to hunt and peck for the bits of information like I was looking for Waldo.

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Answering Reader Mail

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

This is why you should give free samples or a great discount and keep in touch with clients at least once a year via a personal email. Then I call and email every vendor. 2) Temp while you look for a job so you can say you have executive or admin assistant experience and within entertainment. 4) Make your company searchable.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

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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.