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Executive Assistant Best Job of 2012

Office Dynamics

Money: According to the Labor Department, the median annual salary for an executive assistant was $43,520 in 2010. The profession's best-compensated usually work for the Postal Service, for computer manufacturing companies, or for the federal executive branch. Executive Assistant Salary Range: 75th Percentile Wage: $54,750.

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The 4 Most Difficult Interview Questions

Professional Assistant Blog

What kind of salary are you looking for? Another suggestion is to find out the salary range that was posted for this job and use that. If you get a question that doesnt relate to the job that youre applying for, this type of question is related to how well you work under pressure. Try to give a range, never give a fixed figure.

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How to Lose a Customer and a Few More!

Professional Assistant Blog

Keep in mind that they are the ones that are paying your salary. Providing excellent customer service is crucial. This happens so often within large corporations, since most of them care only about the bottom line - money! Money, of course, is important, but what about the customer?

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4 Ways to Cope with Difficult Colleagues

Professional Assistant Blog

Try following these 4 simple steps and you will find that your work performance will increase and hopefully, so will your salary! Remember that you are there to do your job because you have the skills and qualities that your manager hired you for. Don’t let your work performance suffer.

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Is it that time of the year already?

Laughing all the Way to Work

I have asked for a raise however, but it was after I considered a move somewhere else and wasnt sure I wanted to go, so gave my employer a chance to match the new salary and they did. I think that during the process of your performance appraisal it would be a good time to bring it up, but I never have.