PA | PA Prive - Part 3

Oct 28, 2014

How To Be More Persuasive at Work

What is Persuasion? Persuasion is the act of getting a sentient being other than yourself to adopt a particular belief or pursue a particular action. Here are a couple techniques of top performers that you can use in your own workplace interactions to be more persuasive and influential by Monday morning: Be the first to give Studies show that people who have done something for us first persuade us more. We’re more likely to help work colleagues with their projects if they have helped us with ours. Requests that are personalized are most persuasive of all. Listen ...

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Oct 21, 2014

Top 10 Job Interview Mistakes

The interview is the single most stressful part of the job search process. Any number of things can go wrong, and a big part of being successful is avoiding simple mistakes. You don’t want anything to stand in the way of you and your new job, so here are 10 simple interview mistakes to avoid: Using your phone Answering your phone or texting during an interview is a sure-fire way to send the message that you’ve clearly got more important things to do. Just turn it off. Arriving late You can make a very bad impression ...

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Sep 29, 2014

Top 10 Soft Skills

When it comes to applying for a new job, the main focus tends to be on the qualifications and technical requirements if the position. And as much as these are necessary in order to get your CV and submission noticed by the relevant hiring managers, it’s the addition of soft skills – these being the cluster of personality traits, social graces, communication, and the sort that round you off a professional – that may just land you the job, and indeed serve you well in truly proving yourself and progressing with your career. Make sure that you highlight your soft ...

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Sep 23, 2014

Following Up During Your Job Hunt

The job hunt is a gruelling and arduous time in any professional’s life – we’ve all been there and can attest to as much. However, it’s precisely because it’s such a pain that you need to get smart about how you approach it, and following up throughout the process can often be one of the most useful, yet regularly overlooked, tools at your disposal. But if you’re hesitant about how to go about it, or indeed when to make that extra, seemingly unnecessary bit of contact, then see below for our guide on following up during the job hunting process. ...

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Sep 19, 2014

Christmas Party Etiquette

It’s getting to that point of the year when offices up and down the country get to have a night out on the company – a night which in many cases leads to regrets on the morning after the night before. It’s not always a case of hanging your head in total, career jeopardising shame, however. Sometimes it’s simply a case of mild embarrassment and cringing at the thought of the antics that a few too many drinks brought about. See here for our guide on Christmas Party Themes. But whether it’s all out regret or just the ...

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Sep 19, 2014

Protecting your personal data: 10 tips to keep your data safe online

Recently, news stories came out reporting that hundreds of Apple’s iCloud accounts had been hacked. The reports indicated that these accounts were primarily famous celebrities, notably Jennifer Lawrence, Kate Upton, and more than 100 other female celebrities. These reports have brought additional and much needed attention to the topic of data security, particularly as it relates to information we keep online. Businesses and consumers are putting and increasing amount of their personal, sensitive, and financial information on the internet. Cloud services are becoming increasingly robust, and companies like Apple want us to trust them with increasing amounts of financial information for ...

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Sep 15, 2014

How to become a Virtual Assistant

The role of an assistant is typically linked to being the right hand woman – as they tend to be female, although not strictly, of course – of a high powered executive, always by his side or behind him, and sometimes something of a shadow. However, as anyone in the profession will tell you, being an assistant is more than these analogies give credit to, and much of the work involved requires a high level of methodical and intellectual skill, which is why performing them remotely as a Virtual Assistant is entirely possible. There are many reasons why becoming a ...

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Sep 11, 2014

How to Become a Celebrity Personal Assistant?

Being a personal assistant to a celebrity can be a demanding job. Often these individuals are expected to handle grueling tasks for many hours of the day however, the work also comes with a lot of perks. Discounts, free items, the opportunity to work with famous people and a lucrative salary are enticing enough for personal assistants to continue working in their field. Your best bet is to begin your search with placement agencies. Most good agencies do not charge any registration fee at all. They just go thoroughly over your background keeping in mind whether your personality is similar ...

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Aug 28, 2014

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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Aug 21, 2014

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 ...

Aug 21, 2014 | 2 Comments