Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 13, 2011

Don't get sidetracked from your life and career goals. While their offers can be enticing, make sure it aligns with your life and career goals. As you are job hunting, think hard about if you want to temp, freelance, do contract work, temp-to-hire, or direct hire roles only and under which circumstance. Make a decision.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 6, 2013

To that effect, I also mostly believe that your work is either admin/process heavy or people heavy, which means you actually carry out the work/ideas of others OR you are a manager/executive where you manage people or departments so the business goals get done. Why do I bring this up? Do you want to manage people or actually do the work?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JUNE 11, 2014

And as I was working, job hunting and/or temping, I had to find other sources of happiness. I also thought about money, salary negotiation, and how I was spending my time. This was mostly as a temp during very slow months when the entire industry was on vacation, but I’m sure the paycheck wasn’t as amazing as yours.

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