Eat Your Career

JANUARY 23, 2020

The graphs show a clear and steady decline in jobs and stagnant wages for administrative assistant and secretarial jobs. However, there’s an important point to note: The data makes no distinction between Administrative Assistants and Executive Assistants. This is a great thing for both executives and assistants.

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Work Life

APRIL 24, 2024

For instance, jobs in which women make up the majority of workers—such as medical administrative assistants (91% women), office managers (88%), and legal assistants (87%)—may be more likely to be replaced by generative AI. We don’t need everyone to understand computer vision and natural language processing.

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SnackNation

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Chippewa Valley Technical College Associate Degree – Executive Assistant – Online and In-Person Classes. Best for: The course includes internship opportunities that provide quality real-world experience, so it’s ideal for budding Executive Assistants looking to gain relevant resume experience.

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Work Life

MARCH 11, 2024

Amidst this chaos, I came across an administrative assistant whose capabilities far surpassed her lack of formal education. Like this recent New York Times opinion piece highlights, over the centuries, advances in engineering and computing have decreased the value of physical labor, and soon AI will surpass our technical acumen.

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C-Suite Assistants

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In comparison, while a personal assistant needs to be flexible and eager to help however they can, they don’t necessarily need leadership capabilities. An administrative assistant usually has fewer years of experience and needs to be organized, pleasant, and have good computer skills, but again doesn’t need the leadership capabilities.

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Ruby

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Responding to emails within 15–30 minutes is a tall order, even for small business owners who spend most of their workday at their computer. Hiring a virtual assistant to monitor your inbox is a common solution for busy business owners. Trusted partners Today’s administrative professionals serve an essential role in the workplace.

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SnackNation

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

With all of the monitors, computer towers, mice, laptops, phones, and chargers that adorn the typical office desk, the number of wires in front of us can quickly get out of hand. This is a great tip for Office Managers, IT pros, Administrative Assistants, or anyone else whose job requires them to field a ton of inbound requests.

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Ask a Manager

MAY 12, 2015

I am an administrative assistant for a local development group in my community. In addition to helping with economic development, we also own and operate a small business hub in which we rent out office space to various small businesses and provide them with secretarial assistance and whatnot. Here we go….

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Fellow

JANUARY 30, 2024

Maybe you have a virtual post-it on your computer background where you can see the goals every day. Promoting their career growth by having SMART goals set can help an EA track their progress and be intentional about improving their job satisfaction. Or, perhaps the goals are printed out and thumbtacked above your desk.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 25, 2018

I first took the commentariat’s advice about the VP speaker request and forwarded the request email to the VP’s administrative assistant. Remember the letter-writer whose mentors were pressuring her to do networking favors she didn’t feel comfortable with ? Here’s the update.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 29, 2021

About 18 months ago, we were looking for a new administrative assistant for the business. Her computer and communication skills were quite poor, she took forever to do basic tasks, was dressed inappropriately for an office, and played on her phone frequently. She was also coming in late or leaving early every day.

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Ask a Manager

DECEMBER 5, 2022

I have been at my new job as an administrative assistant for just over two months. Now that we have computers with proportional fonts, a single space after a period is the rule and has been for a while. My boss is advertising my job because I got sick before some pre-approved vacation time. Change with the times! More here.).

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Ask a Manager

MAY 17, 2016

I am an administrative assistant and have a second job interview coming up the end of this week. I really want to wow them with my great administrative skills and do something that will make me stand out above the other candidate(s). Why don’t we send a card and flowers or food, which are more traditional for condolences?”.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 30, 2017

I work in a front office as an administrative assistant for a nonprofit (my job entails a lot more than just handling front office inquiries, and I never have any free time as my work load is pretty heavy). She replied, “Yeah, but I don’t want to look it up on my phone, can’t you look it up on your computer?”

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Ask a Manager

MARCH 30, 2022

First day she walks up to the administrative assistant and asks for a list of who she gets to “boss around” (in those terms). We called him and told him it wasn’t going to work out, so he called everyone in the company he could get a number for and told him we couldn’t fire him before he started. The oblivious new hire.

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BMT Office Administration

JANUARY 23, 2025

An administrative assistant may need to decide how to rearrange her day after a manager puts an extra task on her plate. What professional development initiatives to invest in What type of work arrangements to allow Of course, a multitude of more minor decisions come into play.

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