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How to Showcase Work Samples in Your Professional Portfolio: Travel Planning Example

All Things Admin

Travel planning skills can be challenging to showcase in your professional portfolio, but they are something many employers and executives are looking for in an admin. So if you have travel planning experience, you need to document it! Work Sample: My Travel Planning System I love to travel! Here is an example: [link].

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Interview Questions and Answers for PAs, EAs and Admins Part 6

Practically Perfect PA

In my last blog I wrote about interview questions regarding career development and a few example answers. These questions can be a little scary but I actually think they are easier to answer than standard interview questions. It is also worth remembering the interviewer will ask you about competencies that are important in this role.

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Simple Tool for Organizing All of Your Travel Information

Stephanie LH Calahan

Anyone that travels frequently knows that a well organized set of travel documents makes the trip much less stressful.    Some that I made myself and some that were pre-manufactured for travel. When you purchase a travel organizer package from Smead, you get 2 different organizers.  What You Get.

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Are You Ready to Hire a Virtual Assistant?

Success

She relieves me from things I don’t need to be doing like email, booking travel and project planning. Not to mention the added burden of sifting through stacks of résumés, arranging interviews and painstakingly checking references. I love all of that stuff, but I also don’t want to be working 70 hours a week.”.

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The 4 Most Difficult Interview Questions

Professional Assistant Blog

Home About Me Advertise The 4 Most Difficult Interview Questions By The Professional Assistant on Friday, November 23, 2007 Filed Under: Job Seeking A re you going in for an interview for that dream job? Follow these simple four steps and you will find that you will pass these interviews with flying colours.

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Listen Live to Stephanie on Edge of Change - Interview with the.

Stephanie LH Calahan

Main | Listen Stephanie Talks About #Organizing Myths on the Active Christian Media Show » Listen Live to Stephanie on Edge of Change - Interview with the Experts #Productivity #Organization Corinne McElroy of Edge of Change knows that the business advice you depend upon comes from many sources. Link Lineup!

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What makes a great administrative assistant?

Page Personnel

Administrative assistants also often work closely with senior-level employees and executives to take care of organisational duties such as answering phones, booking meetings and making travel arrangements on their behalf. Clear communication skills – admin assistants absorb all the communications that executives haven’t time to deal with.