Remove Cover Letter Remove Retirement Remove Skills Remove Temping
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Is Your Resume Hot? Or a HOT mess?

Melissa Peoples

Below this, add short segments listing your skills and abilities, then your professional experience for the past 10 years, then your education and accolades, limiting the entire resume to no more than two pages total. I didn't love kow-towing to the age haters, but I also need to work, and let's face it, I am nowhere near ready to retire!

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Answering Reader Mail: From Lawyer to Executive Assistant?

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

Despite this, I get the feeling that convincing employers of my suitability for an executive assistant job is not going to be an easy task - in a competitive job market, employers don't want to hear about skills as much as they want to hear about experience in the field. 1) Do you have the admin skills to be an EA? Thanks very much!”

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21 Tips for Job Hunting - A Comprehensive Strategy

Musings of a High-Level Executive Assistant

3) Work with temping and recruiting agencies – all of them When you are looking for a job, contact every temp and recruiting agency in town. Send your cover letter and resume to a specific person, their general email address, or fill out their online form/application. Did the receptionist throw it away?