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Job descriptions for Personal Assistants – Merited or inherited?

Practically Perfect PA

Project Management – Time Management, Critical Thinking and Coordination Skills. Event Management – Deductive and Inductive Reasoning. Strategic Research – Compile data and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees and boards of directors.

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Succession Planning For Your Executive Assistant Team: What HR Leaders Need to Know

Worxbee

Developing talent internally is much better bang for your buck than headhunting and other hiring and training activities. Without succession planning and bringing up skilled employees internally, your company becomes another player in the battle for talent. Then there’s the cost of training someone new.

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Guest Blogger: David B. Wright, Author

The Office Professionals Place

If it is a project management position, prepare a project status review presentation or the like…you get the idea. In it, you can highlight key accomplishments, high-profile clients or projects, significant results, pretty much anything you like that would help you stand out to the hiring committee.

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How to Use Work Samples When Everything You Do Is Confidential

All Things Admin

I actually have an entire binder dedicated to my community service, board work, and committee involvement for my professional association that allows me to quickly and easily add experience and samples to my professional portfolio. I share more about overcoming a lack of work samples in this article.

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What It Means to Be a Career Executive Assistant

Worxbee

An executive assistant, on the other hand, often takes more of a project management role. For example, many EAs find themselves asked to head up new internal committees or initiatives. For example, office social events or workplace cultural committees.

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Experience vs. a university degree part two

Practically Perfect PA

Yes, Outlook Training and Training in Supporting a University Committee. Yes I have taken numerous courses to assist with my role both internal office courses and external professional courses. At a previous employer, an Admin had just achieved her BSBA and applied for a Project Manager position.

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SUCCESS’ 2025 Women of Influence

Success

Global reach As we inspire on the international scene, I will also go one step further. From launching international businesses to leading grassroots campaigns, the women featured are demonstrating that leadership knows no borders. Shes since built an international organization, #teamgogo, with over 1,500 agents who generated $2.1

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