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Are assistants overqualified?

Practically Perfect PA

It has been really interesting reading all of the different job descriptions, the skills that are required and the salaries attached to different levels of the role. We don’t have career paths in place, it is difficult to promote us and the majority of organisations do not have succession plans for their administrative staff.

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Are You Covering All Expense Bases?

Step It Up VA Coaching

Any money you spend to run or grow your business must be paid for somehow, and not necessarily out of your own salary. Office supplies, equipment, and software: Office supplies, such as envelopes, postage, pens, paper, computers and printers are obvious expenses of doing business.

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Write The Best Job Descriptions In 7 Easy Steps | Free Templates

Recruit CRM

Here are three core pointers of a good job description: Explains the reality of the role Showcases the organisation's culture, and A bit of marketing for the company In short, a job description is used for a variety of reasons— starting from the most obvious, which is recruiting, determining salary ranges, creating job goals, job titles and more.

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Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I have heard of EAs working for successful international corporations and earning a very large salary. If you’ve decided you want to be an EA or have a career that leads to a great salary, it all starts with growth. State you’d love to be an EA and learn so much you can be promoted to coordinator, director, manager.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

To be effective in any position you need to be on the forefront of technology and systems use so I have attended many training courses for software and technology. Yes I took supplementary courses in software over the course of several years. No, but know of a friend who had no degree and got offered a lower salary.

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