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Want to Reach Your Potential? Be a Learner

Success

Most companies hire people with the skills required for identified goals and fire them as needs fade or change, Fay says. “I Plus, if your industry hits the skids, you’d better have some options. It just felt like a really comfortable environment to learn in,” said our classmate Alexandra Molnar. “I A push for parity.

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Your definitive guide to contracting work: the good, the bad, and the reality

Page Personnel

Get up, happy to be going to work at the same office where you’ve been for the last 5 years, within the same role and industry, ready to start your day and crack on. Sometimes lumped in with freelancers, temp staff, or interim staff, a contractor is specifically any professional employed on a temporary, contract basis.

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Answering Reader Mail: Taking Your Career to the Next Level

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

2) Make it clear you have bigger goals. When you interview for new jobs, do your yearly job performance reviews, network, or whenever appropriate, make it clear you have bigger goals. The goal is to go from a busy role to one that is absolutely crazy insane busy and stressful to prove you can do it.

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Answering Reader Mail: From Lawyer to Executive Assistant?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

I like many aspects of my job, but the most important thing for me is working for the right company, in the right industry and with the potential for growth, and my current position offers none of those things. Can you fit in a corporate structured environment? 1) Do you have the admin skills to be an EA? Why be an EA?

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Assistant Certifications: free webinar replay & handout

Office Dynamics

As the assistant wanting to get approval, you would fill in the Goal/Learning Objectives column and then present that to your executive and show the benefits of each. It goes back to what I said about your career goals and aspirations. Is that in line with your goals and the other things I discussed you consider in the webinar.

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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. Before I graduated college, I also did a lot of internships alongside well-respected people in the industry or at well-known companies.

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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.