Personal Assistant Job Description

Whether it’s in taking on a new role or in updating your CV, it’s important to be precise with the personal assistant duties that your role has or will involve, while also being exact as to the extent and regularity of these. With a role varied and demanding as that of a personal assistant, you might think such a task near enough impossible. However, it’s because of this that you need to make the effort to establish the guidelines for prospective employers to be aware of how much you’ve done, while also being explicit as to these boundaries when starting ...

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10 Tips on Conducting Effective Meetings

Meetings are unpopular because they take up time–usually that of many people. However, there are good meetings and there are bad meetings. Meetings can be an excellent use of time when they are well run. Bad meetings drone on forever, you never seem to get to the point, and you leave wondering why you were even present. Effective ones leave you energised and feeling that you’ve really accomplished something.                        Here are ten tips to ensure your meetings are as effective as they can be.      Schedule meetings well in ...

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Moving Up On The Assistant Career Ladder

Even in the world of personal and executive assistants there exists that all important professional ladder that we’re all constantly told to keep climbing. Despite the fact that many of us will work in environments where we’re surrounded by people who are all but consumed by the desire to ascend, ascend, ascend, it’s also important to remember that there’s nothing wrong in wanting to further yourself in your chosen career.   If you’re looking for some advice on how to move up in your own career ladder to a more senior PA role, here’s some advice on how to get ...

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An Alternative IT Support Company – Hello?

  There are some challenges involved for any IT support company to offer and fully fulfil onsite support and off-site support services. Both of them are normally not needed at the same time for any SME or Medium Sized business, however, if you are right at the heart of a fast paced, competitive and vibrant environment like London, then you may want to think about some sort of IT support for a just-in-case scenario or even about your IT support being managed.   Managed service desk is a good way of handling IT support issues. Certain times, there is no ...

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