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The BizChix Podcast:  Female Entrepreneurs | Women Small Business | Biz Chix

460: How We Hired an Executive Assistant

The BizChix Podcast: Female Entrepreneurs | Women Small Business | Biz Chix

Natalie Eckdahl

Entrepreneurship, Business, Management

4.8630 Ratings

🗓️ 25 February 2021

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Have you considered hiring an assistant? Or have you hired an assistant and it didn't work out? So many of our clients in both of our group coaching programs and 1:1 mentorship program are hiring an assistant which is honestly one of the most personal and intimate positions you can hire for.

Join us for this throwback episode as we go behind the scenes and share the highs and lows in our journey to hire an executive assistant for BizChix. You'll also hear our process of finding candidates, interviewing and hosting a trial period with the right candidate.

Plus, three years later, I'm sharing some updates on how the business has changed and reflecting with key takeaways.

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Have you considered hiring an assistant or have you hired one and it just didn't work out?

0:08.0

So many of our clients in both of our group coaching programs and one-to-one mentorship program

0:13.8

are hiring an assistant, which is honestly one of the most personal and intimate positions

0:20.0

you can hire for. Almost exactly

0:23.2

three years ago, I had my first in-person interview with Tiffany Jordan, who I hired as a

0:29.7

part-time executive assistant with the goal of her becoming full-time. She not only quickly

0:36.0

became full-time, but within two years or even less than two

0:39.8

years, she was promoted to manager of operations. And now she oversees all of our internal projects,

0:46.9

manages both of our podcasts, and also deals with our podcast editors, and she has a full-time operations assistant reporting

0:57.1

directly to her.

0:58.7

And guess what?

0:59.4

We're about to hire another part-time executive assistant to support both Tiffany and

1:04.7

myself.

1:05.6

Hopefully that position will turn into full-time as well.

1:08.5

This episode originally aired as episode nine on the Stacking Your

1:13.3

Team podcast. That's the second podcast we launched under my company. Shelly Warren hosts that

1:19.8

podcast and this week she released episode 148, three years since launch. So from my point of view, stacking your team is required

1:30.9

listening for anyone who is hiring and building a team. And Shelley, Tiffany, and I just collaborated

1:37.0

on our first signature course, your next best hire. You get the best of all three of us, our thought leadership, our experience,

1:47.0

all in one place with snackable content on topics like creating a hiring strategy, how to create

1:53.8

your job posting, what to put in it, samples, templates, scripts, performance reviews,

1:59.8

how to create a work plan, and how to fire.

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