Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 13, 2011

Here are some tips as your career progresses that will affect how you job hunt. 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. The lower-level admin you are the more jobs there are. Job hunt with focus. Make a decision.

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Office Dynamics

MARCH 12, 2015

As the assistant wanting to get approval, you would fill in the Goal/Learning Objectives column and then present that to your executive and show the benefits of each. There were several public seminar companies whose 1 day workshops I attended and I did learn some good tips. I hope this helps you get an idea of what you need to do. (JB).

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Laughing all the Way to Work

MAY 10, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Recently, a temp worker at my job gave me another Google tip. Meetings Plus: Taking them offline On the job tips for new Admins. Word and Outlook 2007 tips Grrr! Do you like what you do?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

2) Make it clear you have bigger goals. When you interview for new jobs, do your yearly job performance reviews, network, or whenever appropriate, make it clear you have bigger goals. The goal is to go from a busy role to one that is absolutely crazy insane busy and stressful to prove you can do it.

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Laughing all the Way to Work

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

My goal for this blog is to give good tips and ideas and occasionally put a smile on your face as you start your day!Lets Meetings Plus: Taking them offline On the job tips for new Admins. Associates e-bulletin helps and tips. Lets enjoy our day together.© Now that is dedication.Executive Assistant donat.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 17, 2012

The shortest route is to look for temp work thru agencies or TaskRabbit, Craiglist, or volunteer. Starting a new career at any age is a great endeavor and they will want to understand your values, goals, and impressions of being an EA. Your best bet is to get some experience in admin and being an EA thru temping or other contract work.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 7, 2012

Start reading now about your company's mission, strategy, and goals. The goal is to have at your fingertips information you will need at a moment's notice. If you are out sick, a temp will have to sub for you. Your goal is to become a mini-me version of them and to make their life easier. Do they know the vm passwords?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 12, 2010

I spent the next four months resting, soul-searching, temping here and there and took a 2 week vacation. Learn to purse your personal goals as well as your professional ones. The more I thought about it, as much as I loved my job, I realized I need a new one that provided work life balance. So I quit my job.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 26, 2014

The point of the above exercise is to figure out if the solution is something that can be fixed with a little action/daily maintenance (go on vacation, take better care of yourself, respectively) or will take long term planning and goals/strategy (move closer to family or save enough money to travel for a year).

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

JH recently wrote me and asked the following question, "With so many temp agencies out there, I don't know which is/isn't good. I was wondering if you could give me the name of the temp agency you worked with. The best strategy is to sign up with every single temp agency in town. Thanks so much in advance!"

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

MAY 16, 2012

Sign up with the major job hunting sites with your resume and profile, join social network sites geared towards work, and meet with every temp agency in town just to be safe. You can juggle studying, you can follow thru on a goal, you most likely work part time while having a social life, it means you're committed and invested in yourself.

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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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Recruit CRM

MAY 29, 2021

These 13 podcasts have been trending time and again providing recruiters with the latest tips, trends and best recruitment strategies this year. This podcast brings a unique voice to the goals of creating an online personal brand or employer presence and tips on various recruitment marketing strategies & candidate sourcing.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 4, 2013

You 'll learn my most cringe worthy moment, tips, and a little about me as a person. 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. So I left that temp gig and went to work for the CEO.

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The Small Business Blog

AUGUST 16, 2007

6 days ago RT @ WinWeb Focus on Your Small Business Goals - [link] 6 days ago Perluondo: "They're exactly the demographics I'm looking for." Planned Maintenance – Upgrade to WinWeb.com The Cost of Borrowing Small Office Tips Finding The Best Employees For Your Small Business Do You Need Encouraging To ‘Go Green’?

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