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  • Unlocking the Benefits of Employee Ownership Busin

    Unlocking the Benefits of Employee Ownership Businesses

    • 15 Mar 2024
    • Evie Courtier | Bain and Gray

    What are the reasons for transitioning to an Employee Ownership Trust (EOT)? Where do the benefits lie? What are the advantages of working for an EOT? Discover all with the aid of Bain and Gray.

  • Administration Jobs: Key Skills Required to Excel

    Administration Jobs: Key Skills Required to Excel and Progress

    • 6 Feb 2024
    • Evie Courtier

    Whether you're looking to start work as an administrator or progress into a secretary or office manager role, we're got the skills you require to excel and progress.

  • A Guide to Temp Work: How to Get the Most out of y

    A Guide to Temp Work: How to Get the Most out of your Temporary Contract

    • 22 Jan 2024
    • Evie Courtier

    Temporary jobs: how working as a temp builds experience, aids the acquisition of new industry knowledge and skills, and aids personal growth and development.

  • Building Stronger Relationships with Your Executiv

    Building Stronger Relationships with Your Executive: A Guide for EAs

    • 27 Oct 2023
    • Evie Courtier

    A guide for those in EA Jobs, looking to establish, build and develop a strong working relationship with their executive.

  • 10 Top Tips to Improve Your Presentation Skills

    10 Top Tips to Improve Your Presentation Skills

    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Evie Courtier

    Follow these 10 tips on perfecting your presentation skills, aiding your communications expertise, ability to hold an audience, and gaining the confidence to step up to the mark when asked to present by an executive.

  • How to Futureproof your Profession with the Rise o

    How to Futureproof your Profession with the Rise of AI

    • 12 Sep 2023
    • Evie Courtier

    How is AI viewed in the workplace? Is my Assistant profession under threat? How can you futureproof your profession? Join the discussion about the impact of AI on your profession.

  • PA Career Guide: How Much Does a PA Earn?

    PA Career Guide: How Much Does a PA Earn?

    • 24 Aug 2023
    • Evie Courtier

    We spoke with industry leading experts and members of the SecsintheCity community to find out about life as a PA and what the future holds for the role.

  • Disability Employment & Recruitment: Advice to Dis

    Disability Employment & Recruitment: Advice to Disabled Candidates

    • 27 Jul 2023
    • Evie Courtier

    What is disability? What are the benefits of employing disabled people? What help is available to disabled candidates? TotallyLegal have partnered with Evenbreak, to lead the discussion of disability employment and recruitment.

  • Disability Confidence: How to Feel Confident in Your Job Search as a Disabled Candidate

    • 22 Jun 2023
    • Evie Courtier

    Join the discussion of the challenges faced by disabled candidates, how to identify an inclusive employer, and ways in which you should feel confident as a candidate of disability.

  • Hybrid Working: What Have We Learnt So Far?

    • 1 May 2023
    • Evie Courtier

    Hybrid Working: What Have We Learnt So Far? What's the demand? What's the benefit? What's the future?

  • What’s the Difference between an EA and PA?

    • 15 Dec 2022
    • Evie Courtier

    Personal Assistant jobs and Executive Assistant jobs have a lot of overlap, so what is the technical difference between the two roles?

  • Business Support of 2022: The Lucrative Year for New Starters

    • 8 Nov 2022
    • Evie Courtier in association with Bain and Gray

    The resilience of the business support industry, why now is the time to find a role in the business support landscape

  • How to build your own personal brand with the PA Way founder Skevi Constantinou

    • 15 Apr 2021

    We recently caught up with Skevi Constantinou, founder of the PA Way, to ask her advice on how PAs and EAs can begin to build their own personal brand.

  • What is it like to job hunt with Joss Search & SecsintheCity?

    • 19 Mar 2021
    • Joss Search

    What's it like to use SecsintheCity and specialist recruitment consultancy Joss Search in your job hunt? Find out in this insightful interview with a recently placed candidate!

  • Self-Employed as a Virtual Assistant - Is It for Me?

    • 24 Feb 2021
    • Suzy Sanders of Alchemy VA

    In this guest post, Alchemy VA founder Suzy Sanders reveals what it really takes to become a self-employed Virtual Assistant.

  • The Big Ideas Shaping the Business Support Profession in 2021

    • 28 Jan 2021
    • Ethan Cumming

    At the hopeful dawn of a new year, we reached out to trusted recruitment consultancy clients and industry experts to find out about the big ideas and trends set to shape the business support profession in 2021.

  • Going Virtual: An Interview with Alchemy VA’s Suzy Sanders

    • 26 Jan 2021
    • Ethan Cumming

    In 2016, driven by desire for more fulfilment, flexibility and freedom, Suzy Sanders founded Alchemy VA. We caught up with Suzy to find out more about the challenges and benefits of starting a virtual assistance business.

  • How did the business support profession change in 2020?

    • 19 Jan 2021
    • Ethan Cumming

    How has life changed for PAs, EAs and other business support professionals in the past year? Take part in SecsintheCity’s annual audience survey to have your say.

  • One businesswoman proves VA start-ups can still thrive despite COVID

    • 21 Dec 2020
    • Alchemy VA

    As the admin and business support services sector continues to rise, one Northamptonshire VA is proving that business support start-ups can still succeed in the changing landscape.

  • Life as a PA in 2020

    • 15 Oct 2020
    • Ethan Cumming

    We spoke with industry leading experts and members of the SecsintheCity community to find out about life as a PA in 2020 and what the future holds for the role.