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Top 28 Gifts for Holiday Shopping on A Budget

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While the holidays are certainly joyful, shopping for others can sometimes add more stress than you’d anticipated, especially if you’re trying to purchase Christmas gifts on a budget. The company partners with the ReSea Project so you can sip with purpose: With every bottle of wine sold, 10 plastic bottles are removed from oceanic waterways.

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Answering Reader Mail: Green EA, Green Executive

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I was hoping that you might have insight/advice on how to create project work/better assist a C-Level exec that has never had an admin before. Since we are both somewhat green, I was hoping that you might have some suggestions to spark project work (both business and personal related projects would be helpful).

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

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

The amount of skill, pressure, stress, and problem solving differs at each of those levels. EA work is typically admin work - phones, travels, calendars, expense reports, mtgs/luncheons, etc. Yes, you are playing baseball, but are you a pro or in the little leagues?

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10 Tips on Taking a Vacation (and Derek DelGaudio)

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I was stressed out from the pace of work and also the length of a couple of special projects with a long lead time. We also get a mini break when our boss is traveling as the stress level is generally lower and we can catch up on our workload. A week or two ago, it was one of those weeks where my brain just felt tired.

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Breaking down Minutes: The Art of Minute Taking

Who's the Real Boss?

The same theory applies when you’re temping too, or even contracting as a minute taker – find someone on that team that you can check things with so that you’re always showing yourself up as the most knowledgeable and professional minute taker going around.

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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. I opened the phone book and signed up with every single one in town.

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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 about fan bases more than project per project, so people grow with you and they grow through you. Yosie – De temps en temps, j’ai le goût de faire de quoi en français, ou traduire mon blogue.

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