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Branching out – moving on from being an EA

Practically Perfect PA

Being a personal or executive assistant is a career in itself, with the right drive and ambition you can carve out a highly rewarding working life as an invaluable support resource. For me, my career took a natural path from purely EA work to Events and Project Management a career and industry which I love. Be a sponge.

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Branching out – moving on from being an EA

Practically Perfect PA

Being a personal or executive assistant is a career in itself, with the right drive and ambition you can carve out a highly rewarding working life as an invaluable support resource. For me, my career took a natural path from purely EA work to Events and Project Management a career and industry which I love. Be a sponge.

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Job descriptions for Personal Assistants – Merited or inherited?

Practically Perfect PA

Project Management – Time Management, Critical Thinking and Coordination Skills. Event Management – Deductive and Inductive Reasoning. Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others. Risk Management. Stakeholder Management. Human Resources.

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Answering Reader Mail: Career Progression, Wearing Different Hats, and Realistic Expectations

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

This week’s question also comes from an international/non USA reader! It also costs a lot to hire someone else because finding the time to find the right person and training them is expensive in energy, manpower, resources, and money. They write. “Hi Hi there, I just stumbled upon your blog today and am glad that I've done so!

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How To Invest In Yourself (And Why)

Brilliantly Better

I would like to say that it was a sudden enlightenment, an internal breakthrough which led me to an epiphany, but it wasn’t. Facts Analysis When you analyze facts, you leave away the internal “fog”. Maybe you think you’re a brilliant negotiator, but that may be just an inconsistent cloud in your ego. I know that first hand.

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