Thursday Things — Oct 24th, 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

*Note: Remote roles are USA-based unless indicated otherwise.

1. Coalition for Community Solar Access, $80k - $100k, Remote

2. Mediavine, $85k - $95k, Remote

3. The Good Food Institute, $65.9k, Remote

4. Business + Higher Education Roundtable, $57.2k CAD - $72.8k CAD, Remote (Canada)

5. Upstart, $80k - $111k, Remote

3 posts you might’ve missed

#1

AnxiousPickle91: “My exec at the time was a UK citizen living in the states. I was new to the job and didn’t think he would need a visa to go to Canada. He showed up at the airport and I got a very angry email about.. needing a visa. Thankfully he just needed an e-visa and it only took 15 mins to get approved so he was able to go on the trip. I never made that mistake again. I triple checked visa requirements for every single trip.”

Beginning_Buddy_23: “I once sent a vent email about my boss... to my boss. I had her on my mind and put her email address in instead of the person I was trying to email. I haven't worked for her in 15+ years, we are friends now and laugh about it.”

kizzytheklown: “I gave a $500K check to a vendor who came to our office that I had never met before. My boss asked me “did you check her ID”? My stomach sank. 👀 It was the correct person but wow.”

#2

👏👏👏

#3

This is totally going to help me get through the awful music next time I’m stuck on hold. 📞

1 Tech Tip

Adding international holidays to your calendar 🥳

If you’re scheduling for executives across different countries, it’s often a lot to juggle between the various holidays of each country.

Thankfully, Outlook and Google Calendar have both made it super easy to add international holidays to your calendar!

Vimcal EA users will be happy to learn that once your holiday calendars have been added to Outlook or Google Calendar, they’ll sync right over to Vimcal EA too. ;)

On Outlook:

1) Click “Add calendar”, which is right above your calendars

2) Go to the “Holidays” menu item

3) Add any countries whose holidays you’d like to keep tabs on

On Google Calendar:

1) Click the Gear icon and select “Settings”

2) Under the “Add Calendar” menu item, you’ll want to select “Browse calendars of interest”

3) Add any countries whose holidays you’d like to keep tabs on

You’ll now see every single holiday for those countries right on your calendar!

Bonus: If you’re a sports fan, you’ll notice you can also add the calendar of various sports teams via the “Sports” section.

Extra tip: For better organization, I recommend choosing different colors for your native country’s holiday calendar vs your new international countries’ holidays calendars.

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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