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Experts Weigh in on 17 Investments for a Rich Life

Success

If your résumé needs work or your interview skills are rusty, hire a professional to work with you—don’t practice on prospective employers.” It’s more expensive than brown-bagging it or eating at the office cafeteria, but it pushes you to get outside and interact with other professionals.”. Plan to eat out at least once a week.

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The Blended Role of Executive Personal Assistants

C-Suite Assistants

The demand for highly-skilled, tech-savvy, multitasking administrative professionals who perform business and personal tasks has become so great that a new position is trending—the Executive/Personal Assistant (EA/PA). What if you need someone to do both? An EA/PA manages the executive’s entire life.

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5 Random Things Helpful at Your Job

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Over the years as I've worked for various Fortune 500 companies or C-Level executives, I've noticed a pattern of a skill set that is never written in job descriptions, but is vital. To put it succinctly, being a "tastemaker" and very aware is a very helpful skill. This will come in handy as you plan your events and give gifts.

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10 Questions To Find The Perfect Venue

Office Dynamics

While the right venue is most likely the largest expense of your event experience, it is also the most influential in shaping the overall guest experience. Make sure if you are planning a dinner in a restaurant, you may need to wait until they are through with their lunch service. We’d love to hear your event stories.

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How To Make An Impression in 25 Different Ways

Brilliantly Better

Whether this involves setting the time of the event, or getting gas before a long trip, or picking the restaurant to meet at, this is your chance to impress everyone. Buy Expensive Things This is one of the most costly ways to impress others, and it is very temporary.

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Answering Reader Mail

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Believe it or not, while some EAs do hold tremendous power, because travel is a very expensive and uncomfortable aspect of business, many executives or companies are very specific on what is or isn't allowed and which airlines they will or won't fly. I once went to a new restaurant and got such impeccable service it was almost weird.

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Three Reasons You Need to Convince Newbies They Need a Website.

Men With Pens

The last time I went to a restaurant, I checked online for a menu before calling to make reservations. They had many different reviews of their restaurant, but the ones that came up first were the negative ones. It’s too expensive.&# It does take skillfulness to create a domain that someone hasn’t chosen.

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