C-Suite Assistants

AUGUST 12, 2024

As a business owner, you have many responsibilities, from overseeing daily business operations and marketing and sales campaigns to creating a business plan, financial management and bookkeeping, customer service, and ensuring legal compliance. Event Planning An assistant can plan company events, from tradeshows to company retreats.

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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.

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Ask a Manager

JANUARY 9, 2019

I was a legal assistant (she referred to me as an “administrative assistant” on payroll, but as a “paralegal” when billing clients for my time). Also, when you take the bar exam, they write to all your employers to get references, and legal employers are said to carry more weight.

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Ask a Manager

APRIL 7, 2022

That’s still giving her an advantage over candidates who don’t have that kind of insider info, but it’s more in line with the type of help networking is expected to produce, as opposed to handing over what would essentially be a cheat sheet. Can I find out if an employer drug tests? I agreed, but was not optimistic.

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Ask a Manager

JULY 5, 2016

A reader writes: Several months ago, I was hired as an administrative assistant by a very small nonprofit. While the hours (and pay) were much less than I anticipated, I took the job because I figured it would be a good way to network and ease back into the workforce after a few years home with my kids.

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JUNE 21, 2016

My dilemma is I didn’t list my law degree on my resume or application for an administrative assistant in a hospital ethics and compliance department. is that I was getting no responses to applications (even for non-lawyer legal jobs at law firms) and I was getting desperate. is this request from a networking contact weird?

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JANUARY 15, 2016

They’re not legally bound to offer you anchor work if it’s not in your contract. I work as an administration assistant in the registry department of a large university. She said I should embrace the skills I will gain as a reporter. There is nothing about doing anchor work in my contract. What can I do? Not much, unfortunately.

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