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Top 28 Gifts for Holiday Shopping on A Budget

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For example Cancer is a Mango-Ginger-Cream White Tea and Gemini is a Watermelon-Rose-Mulberry Pomegranate Tea. Made of durable stainless steel, the kettle includes five temperature presets to give you the perfect temperature for various types of tea and coffee and a “hold temp” setting to keep your water warm for up to 60 minutes.

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Day in the life: Catherine Thomas, EA, Public Health Wales

Practically Perfect PA

I worked and temped at various places in general administrator/secretarial roles until I found a job where I really felt I could make a difference. I got married, moved countries (with a cat) and had a baby in 9 months! March 2001 saw me heading back to the UK as a single mum with 2 young children and so started my career part 2.

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Outsourcing - Good or Bad?

Professional Assistant Blog

Heres an example of what happened with me. We hired a temp to do some simple clerical work for us, but realized once she left, that the work was inadequate and there were spelling mistakes along with the mail merge list not being correct, that we supplied to her.

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

The same theory applies when you’re temping too, or even contracting as a minute taker – find someone on that team that you can check things with so that you’re always showing yourself up as the most knowledgeable and professional minute taker going around.

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Answering Reader Mail: What Do Employers Look for in High-Level EA Candidates?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

The reality of being an EA is that while the phones, calendar, and travel are essentially the same in every office your boss and your team are always unique people with their own work styles and needs. For example, when I’m asked how I got started and to explain my work history, I always want to tell a great story.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

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. I opened the phone book and signed up with every single one in town.

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10 Tips on Taking a Vacation (and Derek DelGaudio)

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Other jobs, because they were temp to full time, I didn’t even have the benefits of paid vacation time or paid sick days for almost a year. It always perplexes me when small companies do not hire a temp or have in mind another staff person to fill in for the admin or EA to go on a vacation or call in sick.

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