Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

The goal is to go from a busy role to one that is absolutely crazy insane busy and stressful to prove you can do it. Even when a company is downsizing or merging, there’s a lot of opportunity for contract roles or temp gigs to help them thru the transition. When you job hunt keep this in mind.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 26, 2014

I hated the mental stress and burden of putting everyone else first and getting only the usual thank you’s and words of appreciation. I started this blog while temping/job hunting and I was allowed to write or do personal side projects as long as it was not interfering with my work. I hated having to do EVERY LITTLE thing for my boss.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 16, 2012

Sign up with the major job hunting sites with your resume and profile, join social network sites geared towards work, and meet with every temp agency in town just to be safe. The amount of skill, pressure, stress, and problem solving differs at each of those levels. How can you make yourself easily found? And once you're in, you're in.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

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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On The Job

JULY 10, 2009

Maybe this economic environment can lead people to believe that they are desperate for a job. I always hear that temp work is a good way to get experience, but wonder if HR ever cares about it. It could be the situation will also improve because so many people are now taking temp work as a way to survive in this economy.

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Men With Pens

DECEMBER 1, 2009

It’s like stage stress, before walking up on a TV show or a big opening act. I think it’s good to change, to reconnect and adapt to whatever environment you fall into. Just look at our environment: nighttime, no sun, the moon. Just look at our environment: nighttime, no sun, the moon. People respond to humans.

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