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No Opportunities for Career Advancement? Do These 5 Things

All Things Admin

Your professional network can be a great resource!) It may help to compare your job description with your administrative procedures binder to highlight how you’re going above and beyond and adding value to your organization. These are all forms of compensation that don’t necessarily involve a promotion. Do your homework.

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Answering Reader Mail: Re-Entering the Admin Field

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I thoroughly enjoy the diversity of these positions, the project management, and the role of admin support. Through volunteering, you can network and keep your pulse on the industry of your choosing. Call your old contacts, do informational interviews, network twice removed. This experience spanned from 1997 to 2010.

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Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

When you interview for new jobs, do your yearly job performance reviews, network, or whenever appropriate, make it clear you have bigger goals. State you’d love to be an EA and learn so much you can be promoted to coordinator, director, manager. 5) Look for jobs under different titles with the same skill set.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

And as I climbed the admin ladder, when I got recruited for a project manager role, the person who referred me was also someone I had met when I was “just a temp” stuffing those thousands of envelopes. 6) Be strategic about your career plan and job hunt. You just never know… That’s the beauty of life!