Page Personnel

APRIL 1, 2019

Groan, close your eyes and dream of changing up your routine to experience different work cultures, teams and environments, rather than go through the same daily grind, year after year. Sometimes lumped in with freelancers, temp staff, or interim staff, a contractor is specifically any professional employed on a temporary, contract basis.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 16, 2010

If appropriate and true, during the interview process, you can mention you take the time to have lunch with other assistants, interns, or other co-workers just to understand them better as people, the office environment, and pick their brain for advice. I mention how I worked for all my CEOs because I was recruited away as a temp.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

I make this distinction because working at home means there is a less corporate environment, less office politics, less red tap and rigid rules, and less stress and craziness which will work against you because you aren't really in a business environment. When you job hunt keep this in mind.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 17, 2012

Can you fit in a corporate structured environment? The shortest route is to look for temp work thru agencies or TaskRabbit, Craiglist, or volunteer. Your best bet is to get some experience in admin and being an EA thru temping or other contract work. 1) Do you have the admin skills to be an EA?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 26, 2014

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 was willing to work hard and in a demanding environment, but I was specific with what I wanted. I mentored other younger assistants. I will find a job helping a person/people.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 12, 2015

This will be a competitive advantage to all businesses who have this kind of diverse environment in that they will have the advantage to build relationships with their business partners. (BM). I obtained my 4-year Bachelor’s degree while temping as an AA and fell in love with my career. IAAP www.iaap-hq.org (Shared by Jen).

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MARCH 22, 2013

I’m sure you’ve realized while it’s common to have a lot of office politics, it is not fun to work in a gossip-filled environment. 4) Start temping immediately. 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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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 10, 2009

Recently, a temp worker at my job gave me another Google tip. Building Relationships one Assistant at a Time ► April (2) Keeping focussed in a busy environment When your boss arranges meetings behind your back. Finally, I asked her how she knew the answers and what was she doing to get the information?

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Building Relationships one Assistant at a Time ► April (2) Keeping focussed in a busy environment When your boss arranges meetings behind your back. And that’s where a virtual administrative assistant can step in to make all the difference. ► March (2) Admin Buddies Are you prepared? ► February (5) We did it Canada!

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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. There are only so many personality types or people that will thrive in this sort of environment. How can you make yourself easily found?

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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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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 16, 2007

Virtual workers can be from a “Temp-Agency&# or a from contracting firms. Both of these relationships are good for your cost-planning because they are not fixed, permanent costs, they are variable cost, meaning, when the project is finished the contract for your temp-workers, contractors finishes too.

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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

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. I find that even in a living environment, it’s also good and healthy to both stabilize yourself and then just change. Daytime, the sun, no moon.

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