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A recent survey published by Resume Builder included 1,000 respondents who were actively jobhunting in the past year. workers actively job searching within the past year have used ChatGPT — with those utilizing the tool more likely to say (85%) that they have negotiated higher salaries compared to those that didn’t use the tool (52%).
Here are some tips as your career progresses that will affect how you jobhunt. The lower-level admin you are the more jobs there are. Those jobs support the President, CEO, CTO, CFO, and Chairman. Your jobhunt will take a lot longer. Jobhunt with focus. Make a decision.
I didn’t job hop for an increase in salary, it was always for other reasons, but with every new role I did get a pay rise. For many assistants trying to negotiate a pay rise is extremely difficult and many are turned down because of their organisation’s internal structures. Applying for jobs outside of the PA role.
Do a great job. Do a great job and learn to negotiate to a better salary or when you jobhunt after you've gained a lot of experience. Take note on any outstanding kudos you got from your bosses and know your salary worth compared to the rest of the industry.
If this new executive is high-profile in your industry or field, I am sure by reading articles about them or talk of the town, what you wrote above is again, pretty accurate. Don’t automatically assume because the package looks good or the job sounds great on paper you will like it. Jobhunting and dating are very similar.
I knew I didn’t want to jobhunt for more than 6-9 months if I didn’t have to. And as I was working, jobhunting and/or temping, I had to find other sources of happiness. So I read a lot about happiness, jobhunting, and a meaningful life. I’m not sure how your jobhunting experience was.
Because I knew nothing about the job except my title (EA) and the dept (I think it was in marketing). And I had a lot of temp work coming my way, I had a lot of interviews about to be booked, I had just started my jobhunt, and I had so many unanswered questions. Would I like my boss, my team, my role, my compensation package?
Aside from what I will write below, you should consider re-reading my post from July 2011 titled The Realities of JobHunting As a High Level Executive Assistant. Will you constantly review your job and life every 3 months when a new opportunity comes up? Will you be in a new industry that you have no interest in?
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