Executive Assistant Reviews - Page 93

If you choose this as a career, good for you! Do everything you can - take courses, join professional associations, read and keep honing your skills. Become excellent, then keep getting better. If you stumble into this work - and are not thrilled to be there, then do something about it ASAP. Research, self analysis and professional analysis/coaching, to decide what you really want to do - that you would enjoy and excel at. Then go for it!

I am a highly motivated, confident individual with exceptional multi-tasking and organizational skills. I am able to exhibit confidentiality, discretion, tact, diplomacy and professionalism when dealing with directors or senior managers. I possess a proven ability to help managers to make the best use of their time by dealing with their secretarial and administrative tasks.

I wish I'd know what the financial 'caps' were for my position. Same positions are now starting at nearly what I currently make after 23 years, including all benefits.

Seek and cultivate relationships with internal contacts when learning new processes that relate to your job function and keep your manager updated with a time line of your progress of getting tasks completed. Always provide next steps and eta of completion.

Looking back I wish I knew how to explain what I do in a nutshell - even my appraisal format has to change every 6 months, because that is how much I have to constantly adapt or step in. No day is ever the same and NO, I am not a secretary... I have learnt that exceptional organisational ability and almost beyond human time management skills are my strongest 'tools'. And my absolute 'best friend' at work is my people skills, but never the people themselves, because of the nature of the job. Integrity, loyalty, honesty, communication, job satisfaction & job security are my personal driving forces in succeeding in this pressurised and demanding environment. Above all, maintain a good balance between family & work so that both flourish and add to your happiness and well-being.

Get it in writing.