How to Become a High-Profile Personal Assistant




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Summary: In “The Assistant Economy,” Dissent Magazine analyzes the privileged and idiosyncratic career path of “personal assistants” who serve a single high-profile professional, often in a creative field, in a job that often provides no direct promotion opportunities (a movie director can’t train you to replace them) but plenty of indirect ones. A few practical tips: To get hired, get aggressive. These idiosyncratic jobs often aren’t advertised publicly.