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Why You Should Start Your Own Business Today

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Since joining the company eight years earlier, he had worked his way up to a solid position in middle management with a decent salary and great benefits. Now, he was out of a job. Having spent his entire adult life in corporate positions, he knew he could go job hunting.

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The Realities of Job Hunting As A High Level Executive Assistant

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Here are some tips as your career progresses that will affect how you job hunt. The lower-level admin you are the more jobs there are. Those jobs support the President, CEO, CTO, CFO, and Chairman. Your job hunt will take a lot longer. Job hunt with focus. Make a decision.

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So you want to find a new assistant job?

Practically Perfect PA

In my experience there are some terrible agencies out there that will treat you really badly and will put you forward for jobs that are totally unsuitable for you. Through trial and error I have managed to find a few diamonds in the rough, they are few and far between but out there if you know where to look and how to work with them.

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Interview Questions and Answers for PAs, EAs and Administrators

Practically Perfect PA

I decided to leave my previous employee in June 2010 but was job hunting for 6 months and when I did get the role I am in currently I had to complete a detailed application form, attend three interviews and sit two psychometric tests (for language and numerical skills). Filed under: Interviews. I find it hard to say no.

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Gatekeeping: what does it actually mean?

Practically Perfect PA

Your supervisor, manager, or CEO can be a very busy person and their time should be protected from interruptions, not because anyone is not important but simply because they can provide a better response if they are prepared for the request or inquiry that is coming through. Filed under: Career , Skills , Uncategorized.

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The future of recruitment for Assistants

Practically Perfect PA

We’re constantly seeing ever-better solutions for facilitating seriously efficient remote working (think decent file-sharing services and reliable, effective mobile technology) which means that our Assistants are genuinely able to support their Principals from wherever they may be in the world, at whichever time they are needed.

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Interview Questions and Answers for PAs, EAs and Administrators Part 2

Practically Perfect PA

Fortunately the police managed to stop the would be terrorists but it did lead to chaos on the transport network. Some advise a previous manager gave to me was excellent and I have used this as my answer ever since. “I Random question – what three words would your friends, ex-manager, family use to describe you?