Thursday Things — Oct 10th, 2024

"If you’ll be in NYC next Thursday,"

Author

Alex at CCing my EA
October 10, 2024

In case you’re new here, CCing my EA is a bite-sized newsletter dedicated to Executive Assistants like yourself.

Every Thursday, we deliver a quick email with 5 new job listings, 3 fun posts, and 1 helpful tech tip straight to your inbox. 📬

5 new job listings

  1. Equip, $74k - $90k, Remote

  2. Influential, $65k - $70k, Remote

  3. SimplePractice, $80k - $110k, Remote

  4. Squint, $130k - $150k, Remote

  5. Vanta, $188k - $221k, Remote

3 posts you might’ve missed

#1

If you also feel this way, you’ll want to look out for the first episode of our CCing my EA podcast that’s launching soon!

It’ll be titled “The Top 3 Soft Skills that _____ ______ Mastered as EA to the CEO of Twitter“.

To make this more fun, I’ll give out $10 Amazon gift cards to the first 10 readers who correctly reply with the name of our inaugural guest. 👀

#2

“Being an EA isn’t for everyone. And that’s okay.” - EA tech guy 😉

#3

An oldie but a goldie. 🌟

Bonus

If you’ll be in NYC next Thursday, you should come swing by the event we’re co-hosting with Orbital Kitchens to try out delicious food and drinks!

Be sure to click here for 50% off the tickets (they’ll be $14.26 after the discount).

1 Tech Tip

This week’s Tech Tip comes directly from a fellow CCing my EA reader, Natalie at Atlassian! I then transcribed it for our readers here below:

Create Custom Shortcuts for Lengthy Texts 📜

Tired of retyping blocks of text or constantly switching tabs to copy-paste? Check out TextExpander!

Let’s say you’re always copy-pasting the following block of text from a doc:

Meeting Agenda:

Top of Mind [5 minutes]

TOPIC1 [duration]

TOPIC2[duration]

TOPIC3[duration]

Please be sure to send me your top of mind updates and any topic requests by end of day, Wednesday.

Thank you!

Natalie

Instead, just type "@agenda" after pressing cmd (⌘) + backslash (/) on Mac or ctrl + / on Windows. That's it!

To set this up, all you’d have to do is:

  1. Download TextExpander

  2. Create a New Snippet in TextExpander

  3. Copy-paste your block of text into the body

  4. Add the abbreviation, “agenda”.

Best part? It works anywhere on your computer, not just in specific apps!

If you ever need a refresher on past Tech Tips without digging through your emails, they’re all available in a single post right here.

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