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If you decide to join the ranks of personal assistants, you can call yourself a personal planner, concierge, errand runner or lifestyle manager. You can even create a unique title for yourself. How does 'executive efficiency expediter' sound? No matter which title you give yourself, personal assistants fill an essential niche in both the employer-controlled work world and the gig economy.
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Education Requirements
Although many secretaries began their careers straight out of high school, executive-level assistants must have advanced training in the relevant industry, such as law, finance, business administration or other professional services. Meeting and event planners should have a bachelor's degree to hold entry-level positions.
Delivery drivers need at least a high school diploma. Chauffeurs who drive a passenger vehicle require little more than a driver's license and a car to start their careers. Well-off clients might include a horse trainer or jockey, a traveling DJ or a band. In these cases, you need a commercial driver's license (CDL) to drive larger vehicles such as catering trucks, party buses and large-animal transports.
Delivery drivers need at least a high school diploma. Chauffeurs who drive a passenger vehicle require little more than a driver's license and a car to start their careers. Well-off clients might include a horse trainer or jockey, a traveling DJ or a band. In these cases, you need a commercial driver's license (CDL) to drive larger vehicles such as catering trucks, party buses and large-animal transports.
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Industry
The personal service industry fluctuates with the economy. On economic downturns, personal assistants may find themselves in the 'first fired,' category. As the economy improves and salaried employees start pulling more hours, the need for personal assistants rises.
Years of Experience
Executive secretaries find themselves in higher demand when they have a few continuing education credits and college courses completed, along with three to five years' experience in a related position.
Meeting and event planners need no specific level of experience to start, but they command higher incomes with more experience. Keep a portfolio of positive reviews from current and former clients to bolster your professional reputation.
Experience carries less weight for drivers and chauffeurs. Your driving record with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in your state matters far more than your number of years behind the wheel.
Meeting and event planners need no specific level of experience to start, but they command higher incomes with more experience. Keep a portfolio of positive reviews from current and former clients to bolster your professional reputation.
Experience carries less weight for drivers and chauffeurs. Your driving record with the Bureau of Motor Vehicles in your state matters far more than your number of years behind the wheel.
Job Growth Trend
For now, the Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts a 5 percent decline for secretaries and administrative assistants. Meeting and event planning should see 11 percent job growth between 2016 and 2026. The demand for delivery drivers is expected to rise 4 percent, while chauffeurs should increase by 5 percent.
Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants research topics and issues for their clients, prepare statistical reports, handle information requests and perform clerical functions such as sending and receiving correspondence, arranging conference calls and scheduling meetings. These personal assistants also receive and aid visitors. If they have the experience to do so, executive secretaries sometimes train and supervise lower-level clerical staff as well.
Executive secretaries and executive administrative assistants command the highest annual and hourly median income of the various personal assistants. They make $59,400 per year or $28.56 per hour at colleges and universities but command even higher wages if their employer works in securities, commodity contracts or financial investments. The median income for executive secretaries in those categories stood at $66,290 per year or $32.18 per hour as of May 2017. The median income is the point at which half of the personal assistants earn more, and half earn less.
Many personal assistants serve as meeting or event planners. If most of your duties involve planning and overseeing parties, meetings and events, expect a median income of $48,290 per year or $23.22 per hour with a bachelor's degree.
If you bill yourself as a concierge, anticipate a median income of $32,700 per year or $15.72 per hour. Concierges take messages, arrange or give advice on transportation, business services and entertainment, and complete household tasks such as meal planning, grocery shopping, seasonal decorating and other honey-dos that fall off a busy executive's radar.
No matter which title you hold while serving as a personal assistant, driving your employer, staff, family, friends, clients and pets will be among your duties at some point. At the low end, ordinary chauffeurs took home a median income of $24,880 per year or $11.96 per hour in May 2017. If your driving duties tend toward deliveries, look for a median potential pay around $29,250 per year or $14.06 per hour. As a personal assistant, you can demand higher fees if driving makes up any fraction of your workday.
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Jane Smith parlayed her B. S. Ed. degree into working on everything from job and housing services to selling water treatment systems. Wading into an underperforming position as a program manager, Smith recruited staff and inspected and approved enough provider homes to reduce wait times from two years to two months and increase service utilization by 30 percent per quarter. She helped her team sell over $350,000 in water treatment systems and security equipment in 2017, and currently partners with her daughter as an independent Avon Representative at Avon Beauty by Laura.
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The bizarre new titles replace 'dinner ladies' and 'call centre workers' to make jobs sound more appealing to potential staff, researchers found.
Other roles to receive a politically-correct makeover are paperboys, who have become 'Media Distribution Officers' and toll booth collectors, who have been elevated to 'Coin Facilitation Engineers'.
A survey of British workers disclosed that even humble dish washers have been promoted to grandiose 'Gastronomical Hygiene Technicians' by their employers.
Builders at one firm have been forced to rebrand themselves as 'Mortar Logistics Engineers' to keep up with the times.
And when pulling in to refuel your car, you are now more likely to be met by a 'Petroleum Transfer Engineer' than a service station assistant.
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The list of titles was compiled by market research company OnePoll.com after researchers carried out a four-month online survey of thousands of staff and employers who provided their unusual titles.
A spokesman said: 'These job titles are absolutely barmy. Some have been bubbling around for a few years but now the practice of dreaming up such title seems to have gone into overdrive.
'I wonder whether deep down the people who occupy these positions are happy with them.'
The study discovered that window cleaners for some companies have been 'modernised' to become 'Transparency Enhancement Facilitators'.
Factory workers have also been awarded the title of Mass Production Engineers, while pub drinkers might these days order a pint from a 'Beverage Dissemination Officer'.
Meanwhile, snack van caterers dishing out fast food to drunken revellers in town centres in the early hours are now referred to as 'Mobile Sustenance Facilitators' by some employers.
Top 20 jargon-filled job titles:
1. Beverage Dissemination Officer – Barman
2. Colour Distribution Technician – Painter & Decorator
3. Customer Experience Enhancement Consultant – Shop Assistant
4. Domestic Technician – Housewife
5. Education Centre Nourishment Consultant – Dinner Lady
6. Highway Environmental Hygienist – Road Sweeper
7. Field Nourishment Consultant – Waitress
8. Five a Day Collection Operative – Fruit Picker
9. Front Line Customer Support Facilitator – Call Centre Worker
10. Gastronomical Hygiene Technician – Dish Washer
11. Mass Production Engineer – Factory Worker
12. Media Distribution Officer – Paper Boy
13. Mobile Sustenance Facilitator – Burger Van Worker
14. Mortar Logistics Engineer – Labourer
15. Petroleum Transfer Engineer – Petrol Station Assistant
16. Recycling Operative – Bin Man
17. Sanitation Consultant – Toilet Cleaner
18. Coin Facilitation Engineer – Toll Booth Collector
19. Transparency Enhancement Facilitator – Window Cleaner
20. Vehicle Restoration Engineer – Panel Beater