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Ashley N. Park
Portland, OR (555) 340-8821 ashley.park.ea@email.com linkedin.com/in/ashleyparkea
ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT — EXECUTIVE SUPPORT

Professional Summary

Administrative Assistant with two years supporting a five-person leadership team at a regional insurance brokerage, handling calendars, travel and meeting logistics. Looking to move into a dedicated executive assistant role supporting a single senior leader.

Areas of Expertise

Calendar Management  | Travel Coordination  | Meeting & Event Logistics  | Expense Reporting  | Confidential Correspondence  | Microsoft Office  | Concur  | Vendor Coordination

Experience

Administrative AssistantJuly 2024 - Present
Cascade Underwriters Insurance - Portland, OR
  • Manage calendars, travel and meeting logistics for a 5-person leadership team, coordinating 15-20 meetings a week across three time zones.
  • Rebuilt the office’s travel booking process, cutting average booking time from 40 minutes to 15 by standardizing preferred vendors and templates.
  • Process monthly expense reports for the leadership team, reconciling roughly $18,000 in travel and client entertainment spend with no discrepancies flagged in an audit.
Front Desk CoordinatorMay 2023 - July 2024
Willamette Business Center - Portland, OR
  • Greeted visitors, managed a multi-line phone system and scheduled conference rooms for a shared office space of 40 tenant companies.

Education

Bachelor of Arts in CommunicationMay 2023
Portland State University - Portland, OR
  • Worked 15 hours a week as a department office assistant throughout senior year, scheduling faculty meetings and managing course materials.

Certifications

Certified Administrative Professional (CAP), International Association of Administrative ProfessionalsIn progress, expected 2026
Notary Public, State of Oregon, Oregon Secretary of State2025

Technical Skills

Microsoft Office (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint), Concur, Zoom & Microsoft Teams, DocuSign

Awards

  • Cascade Underwriters Insurance, Office MVP Award, Q3 2025

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What actually makes a executive assistant resume strong

Lead with whose calendar you run and how complex it is

The difference between EA resumes is almost always scope: how senior the executive is, how many weekly commitments you manage, how much travel and board work is involved. "Supported the CEO" says little on its own. "Managed a calendar of 25+ weekly commitments across board, investor and client meetings" tells a hiring manager exactly what you can handle.

Name the specific tools, not just "office software"

Concur, Concur Travel, DocuSign, board portal software like Diligent, specific calendar and video platforms: name the ones you have actually used. A company running Diligent for board materials wants to know you have touched something like it, not that you are generally comfortable with computers.

Confidentiality is assumed, so show it through scope, not adjectives

"Discreet" and "trustworthy" are words every EA resume already has. Show it instead: the kind of material you handled (board documents, HR matters, deal-related correspondence) and that nothing was mishandled. A specific description of sensitive work carries more weight than any adjective describing your character.

A move into EA work from a different kind of admin role doesn’t need explaining away

Front desk, legal admin, general office support: plenty of strong EAs started somewhere adjacent. List that experience plainly with what you actually did (scheduling, correspondence, vendor coordination) rather than trying to make an early title sound more senior than it was. The trajectory reads as normal, not as something to justify.

Questions people ask

How long should an executive assistant resume be?add

One page if you have under roughly seven years of experience. Two pages becomes reasonable once you are supporting C-suite or board-level work, managing other assistants, or have enough distinct scope that cutting it would lose information a hiring manager needs.

Should I name the executives I’ve supported?add

Usually no, unless you have their permission or they are already public figures whose names appear elsewhere. Describe the role and level instead ("Executive Assistant to the CEO of a 200-person software company") along with the company name, which gives a hiring manager the same signal without a confidentiality question.

What if my experience is mostly general admin work, not "executive assistant" by title?add

Keep the title you actually held, but write the bullets around the scope of what you did: whose calendar, how much travel, what kind of correspondence. Hiring managers are screening for that scope, not for the exact words that happened to be on your old job posting.

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