All Things Admin

JUNE 28, 2023

Now you’re finally retiring from the workforce. Retirement is an exciting phase of life. The more you know about your successor, and the more your executive can share with you about their resume, work history, personality, etc., Retirement is a time to reflect on your achievements and plan for a fulfilling future.

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Melissa Peoples

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

After giving notice, and thinking now that it wasn't perhaps the best time for clarity or objectivity, I dusted off my resume, added my now former role, and began applying to likely-sounding prospects. Bear in mind, I had been recruited or referred into my past couple of roles, so my resume hadn't been top of mind for a while.

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Office Dynamics

APRIL 17, 2018

When given the opportunity to meet with someone fairly new to the profession and someone embracing an upcoming retirement to explore even more in life, I enthusiastically embrace the moment and ask several questions of each! Attendance to national or international conferences together or individually. www.danabuchanan.com.

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All Things Admin

JUNE 22, 2023

You can include the link to your social portfolio in your resume header so that recruiters can easily connect to your profile and work samples. Always include the link to your social profile on your resume. Your portfolio will be instrumental during every step of your career and even into retirement. Obviously, that’s false!

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Success

JANUARY 18, 2023

In a July 2016 profile , The New York Times wrote that President Barack Obama—who wore only blue and gray suits—daydreamed about retiring to Hawaii to “open a T-shirt shack that sold only one size (medium) and one color (white)” with Rahm Emanuel, the U.S. ambassador to Japan and his former chief of staff.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

DECEMBER 6, 2023

My resume was not even looked at. The only thing I could think to do after a few moments of waiting was to offer my resume. They finally come back and the “interview” resumes. One interview “style” that caught me off guard was the NON interview style. In the end, I passed with flying colors and here’s how. THEY DO NOT.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

First, what you have been up to recently that is exciting, fun or new, why and what sort of job you are looking for, and your contact information and an online link to your resume or a social media profile (more on this later). The kind lady asked me what I did for work so I gave her my resume. She gave me her business card.

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