Trinity James

That is a sentence a client said to me last week during an interview preparation session. We were working through how he could speak about his experience to bridge the gap to the new role he was applying for. He was not trying to sound impressive for the sake of it. He was not looking for clever interview tricks, polished lines, or some rehearsed corporate speech where everyone pretends to be a “passionate self-starter” until the room loses the will to live. He said: “My confidence comes from...

There’s a task that has been sitting on my list for two weeks. I know exactly what it is. I know it probably won’t even take that long. I’ve opened the document at least four times. And every single time, I’ve stared at it for about ninety seconds, felt something unpleasant crawl up from the keyboard, and closed it again. Very productive. Extremely executive. Five stars. The funny thing is, I’m not bad at my work. I do care (too much, most days!). I know that I know the thing needs to be...

Last week I was running a resume review session with a group of Executive Assistants in EA How To and we were pulling apart a real job ad together. Senior EA role. Good one. We were maybe three bullet points in when someone dropped this in the chat: "Support the exec outside standard office hours: red flag." The chat was divided. Half the room was nodding hard. The other half was like, actually, I'd be totally fine with that. And I loved that moment. Because in about four seconds, without a...