Personal assistants, also called administrative assistants, support their bosses by keeping them organized, on-schedule and effective. Specific duties vary depending upon the boss but typically ...

While administrative assistants have a job description, that description doesn't begin to describe the ways office assistants exercise power. A savvy administrative assistant with strong personal ...

At one point near the end of grad school at New York University, I was checking out my university’s job listings when I came across an ad seeking an “aspiring personal assistant.” That is, the ideal ...

Nearly half the administrative professionals for America's largest companies say they've been asked to tell a lie to protect their supervisors, shows recent research by OfficeClick.com. And 58% say ...

I’ve worked with dozens of assistants in my career as an entrepreneur. Some came from placement agencies, others came from advertisements I posted, and I even had some come from referrals. None were a ...