It takes a special kind of person to be able to perform this job well.Īs the title would suggest, executive assistants generally support one or more executives with their administrative needs, like scheduling meetings and booking travel business operations, like creating presentations and generating reports or personal needs, like picking up dry cleaning or taking a car into the shop for repairs. In reality, it’s a fast-paced role that requires organization and adaptability one moment a quarterly report is your top priority and the next you need to secure a lunch reservation for 12 people ASAP. Drawing on this specialized skill set, they often make what can be a very challenging job look like a breeze. Executive assistants are smart, savvy, and resourceful professionals, with a knack for multitasking and a talent for interacting with people. They somehow, as if by magic, keep everything-meetings, schedules, travel arrangements, and much, much more-on track.īut it’s not magic at all. Executive assistants (or EAs for short) play a key role in keeping an executive’s office running smoothly, often juggling multiple competing priorities all at once. Behind nearly every busy executive is an even busier executive assistant artfully orchestrating their boss’s jam-packed schedule.

The perfect assistant