How to Find Personal Assistant Job Listings
There are many places to look for personal assistant job listings, some of these are: newspaper ads, employment agencies and internet job search websites.
- Newspaper ads for Personal Assistant Jobs
Check out the subheadings for jobs in local and national newspapers, personal assistant jobs could be located in office administration. Office jobs that are advertised in the newspaper may well have some listings for personal assistant jobs but these could be at the lower end of the scale. If you are hoping to start out as a personal assistant though, then they are worth looking at.
Very often top personal assistant adverts will be display ads and may be located in among the management vacancies, so always check out the display ads.
Print copies of newspapers will be available from local retailers but very often they are also published online and classified adverts will also be online.
- Personal Assistant Jobs Advertised with Employment Agencies
Many employment agencies have a range of permanent office and administration jobs on offer but it is necessary to register with the agency before they will forward your application on to the employer. Further, many companies take on temporary personal assistants until they find a permanent employee. Temping can be quite good fun for a short while as it is flexible and involves working at a variety of places. A reliable office temp very often finds permanent jobs via the temporary route and it is a great way of getting to know a company before committing to taking a permanent role. Furthermore employment agencies tend to look favorably on applications for any permanent job listings from workers on their temporary register.
Registering for permanent work with an employment agency is easy enough and involves either emailing a resume and speaking to an adviser on the phone or calling into the agency in person and leaving a resume. Temporary workers will need an employee interview and probably will be asked to take skills tests too. When working as a temporary personal assistant it is an excellent idea to cultivate a good relationship with the permanent employment recruiter and ask for advance notification of new permanent jobs that are listed.
- Internet Job search Websites
Personal assistant roles will be listed on internet job search websites very much in the format and style of the adverts in situations vacant columns in the newspapers and normally an applicant contacts the employer direct with his/her resume.
Of course not all vacancies are listed in the ways stated above, many top personal assistant vacancies for roles which involve working for business leaders or social VIPS are only advertised by word of mouth and a form of 'head hunting' will be conducted in order to find suitable applicants.
