C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 12, 2024

They may want to hire dedicated professionals for the sales team but don’t have the bandwidth to create and post a job description, review resumes, vet candidates, and schedule interviews. An owner might have a high-level meeting with a prospective client but is too busy to assemble a hard-hitting presentation.

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Go Burrows

OCTOBER 29, 2023

And so that naturally translated into my career, my parents owned a small business. And I think that experience really helped me be a very good EA, and really went beyond what people probably thought of as traditional assistant duties. So that was sort of the role that I got put in there. Or one tidbit?

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Ask a Manager

MAY 17, 2016

I want to give my interviewer a portfolio demonstrating my admin skills. 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).

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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.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 29, 2021

A reader writes: I work as a project manager at a small business (~25 employees) and have been in this role for more than six years. After a standard interview process, I was hired and have been here ever since. After a standard interview process, I was hired and have been here ever since.

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Ask a Manager

FEBRUARY 20, 2017

Fergus applied for a job with us about a year ago and got to the phone interview stage but didn’t have enough experience to move on to an in-person interview. Over the last few days, he has started calling us, asking us why he hasn’t been interviewed. We will not be interviewing you for this job.

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