What Executive Assistant Jobs Can Do For Your Career ~ Marissa Blahnik

" Executive assistant and administrative assistant positions offer tremendous opportunity. Rabin cautions, however, that “it takes a certain breed of individual to take on the role of an executive assistant.”

“Whether the employer is aware of it or not, they seek an assistant with an insatiable hunger to learn the business, the ability to represent their personal and/or company brand, to act on their behalf in their absence, to protect and honor their business relationship and lastly, to act as a strategic partner and confidant,” she said.