Melissa Peoples

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

After giving notice, and thinking now that it wasn't perhaps the best time for clarity or objectivity, I dusted off my resume, added my now former role, and began applying to likely-sounding prospects. Bear in mind, I had been recruited or referred into my past couple of roles, so my resume hadn't been top of mind for a while.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

OCTOBER 1, 2012

I work at a travel and event planning agency. We are a great resource for Executive Assistants (we have several that we work with currently) booking high level travel globally but I am having trouble reaching out to the right people. Most large companies have in house travel department or a pre-approved vendor and agency list.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

AUGUST 16, 2010

The reality of being an EA is that while the phones, calendar, and travel are essentially the same in every office your boss and your team are always unique people with their own work styles and needs. I mention how I worked for all my CEOs because I was recruited away as a temp.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

APRIL 17, 2012

Any recruiter who sees your resume and finds out you used to be a lawyer will silently wonder the following questions. Whether based on your cover letter or resume, recruiters only take 6 seconds to see if you are match. If the fit isn’t close enough, they toss or file your resume. 1) Do you have the admin skills to be an EA?

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

JULY 10, 2012

The company will ask that you charge everything from business travel to catered lunches on your credit card and they will reimburse you. Sometimes companies don’t validate for parking especially if you are doing testing at a temp agency and are there for a few hours. You’ll need to make copies of your resume or have a nice folder.

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Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

First, what you have been up to recently that is exciting, fun or new, why and what sort of job you are looking for, and your contact information and an online link to your resume or a social media profile (more on this later). The kind lady asked me what I did for work so I gave her my resume. She gave me her business card.

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www.officearrow.com

OCTOBER 28, 2010

Checklists ensure that all steps or actions occur, not necessarily in a specific order (though that can be part of the process), but rather just that they are completed, while a template is an established pattern - form letters, resume designs - that you can use over and over to produce the same result.

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