The biggest advantage
of hiring an assistant is the time you gain to focus on your strengths.
Last year, I briefly mentioned the subject
of hiring an assistant to deal with the promotional aspects of publishing and was stunned by the ignorance.
An army
of hired assistants in Warhol's «factory» studio produced Warhol's work for him, dissolving the idea that the artist's «hand» must be visible in a work of art, and instead, embraced transparency for the notion that art production is in fact a business.
When things get busy, most solo attorneys dream
of hiring an assistant to handle answering the phones, doing basic client intake, and handling the firm's accounting.
Whether an agent is thinking
of hiring an assistant, growing a team or simply looking for a place to start, this is a fantastic platform that will see them through each phase of the journey.
Not exact matches
«We hope that when we're talking to this disembodied
assistant that we have the same amount
of privacy as we would if we were
hiring our own personal
assistant,» says Christopher Parsons, research associate at the University
of Toronto's Citizen Lab.
That necessary extra bit
of oomph is why Google has
hired a team
of comedy writers from places like The Onion and Pixar to write dialogue for Google
Assistant.
You could also minimize the amount
of menial tasks you do every day by
hiring an intern or
assistant.
Of course, the main reason to consider
hiring a virtual
assistant is because he or she can perform certain tasks for you more efficiently than you can.
After she graduated from the University
of Waterloo with a bachelor
of science degree, Telegdi
hired her as an executive
assistant.
Virtual
assistant companies add a crucial layer
of curation and management to the freelance economy, benefiting both the companies that
hire them and the talent that works for them.
You can
hire virtual
assistants for a certain number
of hours or simply until they complete a project.
Brown would spend nine seasons as an
assistant coach for the Spurs before being
hired as head coach
of the Sixers in 2013.
If your junior employees are not right for the task (or if such a «repetitive» task is not the best use
of their time), then you might want to consider
hiring a virtual
assistant.
And, while I admit, at her previous job she was more receptionist than personal
assistant, she spoke both Hebrew and English, and with me needing an emergency replacement due to illness
of my then -
assistant, she was
hired.
But
hiring exclusively from prestigious universities can backfire, as Northwestern University
assistant professor
of management and organizations Lauren Rivera found in a 2011 paper.
Guy Kawasaki, the renowned speaker and co-founder
of Alltop, the news aggregation site,
hired his
assistant Peg Fitzpatrick before they ever even met.
One way to free up time is by
hiring an
assistant, allowing us to offload some
of the more repetitive tasks and focus on our core competencies.
If you
hire an
assistant right now, you want the person to be with you for a long period
of time.
Q — What are some
of the biggest concerns that potential employers might voice about
hiring a virtual
assistant.
If you're further along in your business, and spend lots
of time on non-revenue generating activities, you can't afford not to
hire an
assistant.
In probing the nature
of the relationship, the IRS might examine the contractor's level
of freedom, including setting his or her own hours, paying his or her own business expenses, and
hiring support staff or
assistants as necessary.
With more than 13,000 job openings on Glassdoor, some
of the most popular cities
hiring physician
assistants include Houston, Baltimore, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and San Antonio.
This is helpful since conducting in - person interviews to
hire a personal
assistant could end in a blood bath, and not the kind that ensues when Starbucks is out
of pumpkin spice lattes.
You can
hire a virtual
assistant for just an hour or two a day to check customer - service emails, follow your process
of welcoming new clients and issue invoices.
Years ago, business owners had no choice but to do all
of these types
of tasks themselves, or
hire an office - based
assistant.
It has also
hired a team
of experts, including a former special
assistant to President George W. Bush, to put Mr. Zuckerberg, 33, a cerebral coder who is uncomfortable speaking in public, through a crash course in humility and charm.
While there is a lot
of work involved, once you are making some income, I'm sure there is a way to cut down on many
of the technical and administrative tasks by
hiring a virtual
assistant.
Suppose a poor graduate student who is need
of some extra income gets a call from a church that is interested in
hiring him as an administrative
assistant.
The woman in front
of me was a woman
of integrity, deep faith and sincere commitment to the church, She had been
hired to be a pastoral
assistant, and in that role she had contributed substantial time and amazing gifts to the congregation.
After that, Billy gets by as an
assistant coach, thanks to COACH, who
hires him despite his lack
of obvious qualifications for the job.
He was
hired by the seminary as
assistant professor
of preaching and apologetics and dean
of the chapel after he finished his doctorate.
Faked out everyone in the church I was in, to the point
of the leaders believing his (later proved fake) out -
of - this - world credentials and
hiring him right away as an
assistant pastor (he never did any work, and appropriated church resources to promote himself at the expense
of the church — when people brought those nagging facts up, he would persuade people to cut him slack and «forgive him», making them feel guilty if they didn't).
Jim Sutherland, fired as
assistant coach by Washington as result
of player revolt against embattled Husky Coach John Cherberg, landed squarely on both feet, signed to coach rival Washington State; Rutgers
hired John R. Stiegman, former Princeton
assistant, as new head coach.
HIRED: As director
of athletics at Columbia beginning July 1, KEN GERMANN, 46, a wingback on the Lion football teams in the early 1940s and for the past seven years the
assistant director
of athletics at Rutgers.
According to Scout.com's Josh Henschke, John Beilein is set to
hire Illinois State
assistant DeAndre Haynes for one
of the two openings...
Throughout the
hiring process, as rumors swirled about where the coaching carousel would stop for one
of its hottest names — Florida, Tennessee, Nebraska, Florida State, an extension to remain at UCF — Frost counseled with all
of his
assistants to get their feedback.
Two months later, following the end
of recruiting season, he and his offensive
assistants — including Brandon, whom he'd
hired from Colorado, and Mullen, whom he'd made his quarterbacks coach — hunkered down for three weeks
of closed - door brainstorming sessions in «a little staff room that dripped when it rained,» says Meyer.
The San Antonio Spurs announced the
hiring of 16 - year WNBA veteran Becky Hammon as an
assistant coach.
A graduate
of Cal Lutheran who got his master's at Texas while serving as a Mack Brown graduate
assistant, Herman spent a few years as Sam Houston State's receivers coach, then got
hired as Texas State's offensive coordinator by his 30th birthday.
New coach: Sean McVay Previous position: Redskins offensive coordinator Previous HC experience: none Why: The Rams» list at the outset was completely comprised
of NFL
assistants for a reason — the team's idea was to worry less about
hiring guy who's a big deal now than it was to find the next big thing.
New coach: Anthony Lynn Previous position: Bills offensive coordinator /
assistant HC Previous HC experience: Bills interim coach (Weeks 16/17) Why: The Chargers» focus at the outset was less on
hiring a coordinator — a play - calling head coach who would take care
of one side
of the ball — and more on finding a leader who would set the tone for a program.
Memphis didn't end up
hiring a Fuente
assistant in the name
of lineage.
DISASTER COACHING FORMULA
Hire one
of your own
assistants as head coach.
Whether it is coaching, recruiting, or both, Saban knocked his
assistant hires out
of the park.
However, the
hiring of an
assistant to help offer an alternate point
of view in big games would not go amiss at all, while a few astute signings could bring Arsenal to the next level.
Soon after his inauguration, moving so quickly that the goats had no time to butt in, Kelleher made three significant moves in the USLTA's behalf: 1) he became a client
of Licensing Corporation
of America, which could mean added income
of $ 50,000 to $ 100,000 annually for the USLTA; 2) he signed a deal with Madison Square Garden for a yearly international indoor tournament in the new building, which will give amateur tennis its first exposure in a prime Manhattan arena and put a minimum
of $ 30,000 in the kitty; and 3) he
hired the organization's first full - time salaried executive
assistant, Bob Malaga
of Cleveland, whose role corresponds to that
of Joe Dey in golf.
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — University
of Michigan J. Ira and Nicki Harris Family Head Football Coach Jim Harbaugh announced today (Tuesday, Feb. 20) the
hiring of Jim McElwain as the program's 10th
assistant coach.
Though many football people acclaimed him as a genius, and everyone accepted him as a man
of integrity, no one would dare
hire him in the big time, because Bull Cyclone sure as shooting wasn't going to be a football
assistant for any mother's son.It's apparently true that Norm Van Brocklin, an old pal
of his, did once ask him to take over the Atlanta Falcons» offense when Van Brocklin was head coach, but Bull Cyclone declined, saying, «Now, Norm, why should I come up there and work for you when I already know more football than you do?»
Of course, if you earn the reputation of molding exciting assistants, your reward is... having to hire a lot more of the
Of course, if you earn the reputation
of molding exciting assistants, your reward is... having to hire a lot more of the
of molding exciting
assistants, your reward is... having to
hire a lot more
of the
of them.