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Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

State you’d love to be an EA and learn so much you can be promoted to coordinator, director, manager. And it’s not only important to state them to others, but for you yourself to live your life and to manage your career so you do 99% of the work and that 1% allows others to help you if they wish to get to you the next level.

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The Full Interview - The Person Behind the Professional

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

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. I learned through informational interviews that I should apply to temp agencies. So I left that temp gig and went to work for the CEO.

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Resenting Your Boss & How to Overcome It

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

It says a lot when your boss wants to grow you within the company and promote you. I hated the mental stress and burden of putting everyone else first and getting only the usual thank you’s and words of appreciation. It sounds like things are going swimmingly with your productivity and work performance. How did I learn this?

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Even More Questions Answered

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

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. The amount of skill, pressure, stress, and problem solving differs at each of those levels. Don't be an assistant to a Director or Manager if at all possible.

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

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

When we were a smaller agency, I was the EA and Office Manager for a smaller facility. I'm really interested in progressing and developing my skills but feel that managing the office is hindering my ability to focus on the core of being an EA. Do you want to manage people or actually do the work? Why do I bring this up?

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Bored to Tears at Work - Help!

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

And as I was working, job hunting and/or temping, I had to find other sources of happiness. Reduce the stress and annoying things in your life to maximize your happiness. 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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Which Person Would You Talk To?

Men With Pens

It’s like stage stress, before walking up on a TV show or a big opening act. It’s a contradiction in that we want to use the vehicle to promote ourselves, but that same vehicle is used for piracy. Kelly – I only said “No way&# repeatedly after I managed to close my mouth and remembered how to speak again.

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