Boolean search string for Executive Assistant
Copy-paste strings to source Executive Assistant candidates, plus the title synonyms, skills and exclusions they are built from. Adapt the terms to your market before running them.
LinkedIn search
("executive assistant" OR "executive administrative assistant" OR "personal assistant" OR "chief of staff assistant" OR "senior executive assistant" OR "board assistant") AND "executive assistant" AND "calendar management" AND "executive support" AND ("travel arrangements" OR "meeting coordination" OR "expense reports" OR "board meetings" OR confidentiality OR minutes OR "event coordination" OR "inbox management" OR "stakeholder communication" OR "c-level support" OR "chief of staff" OR "international travel" OR "executive briefing" OR "office coordination") NOT (intern OR student OR "staffing agency" OR "virtual assistant course")Paste into the LinkedIn people-search box. LinkedIn supports AND, OR, NOT and quoted phrases.
Google X-ray
site:linkedin.com/in ("executive assistant" OR "executive administrative assistant" OR "personal assistant" OR "chief of staff assistant" OR "senior executive assistant" OR "board assistant") "executive assistant" "calendar management" "executive support" ("travel arrangements" OR "meeting coordination" OR "expense reports" OR "board meetings" OR confidentiality OR minutes OR "event coordination" OR "inbox management" OR "stakeholder communication" OR "c-level support" OR "chief of staff" OR "international travel" OR "executive briefing" OR "office coordination") -intern -student -"staffing agency" -"virtual assistant course"Paste into Google. It searches public LinkedIn profiles without LinkedIn Recruiter — add a location in quotes to narrow it.
Terms behind the Executive Assistant string
| Job titles | executive assistant · executive administrative assistant · personal assistant · chief of staff assistant · senior executive assistant · board assistant |
|---|---|
| Core skills | executive assistant · calendar management · executive support · travel arrangements · meeting coordination · expense reports · board meetings · confidentiality · minutes · event coordination · inbox management · stakeholder communication |
| Nice to have | c-level support · chief of staff · international travel · executive briefing · office coordination |
| Excluded | intern · student · staffing agency · virtual assistant course |
Sourcing notes
- Start broad, then narrow. If a string returns under ~20 profiles, drop the nice-to-have group before you drop titles.
- Exclusions cut noise but also cut real candidates — check a few excluded profiles before trusting a NOT clause.
- Titles vary by company size: what reads as senior at a startup can be mid-level at an enterprise. Read the profile, not the label.
Build a custom Boolean string → · Interview scorecard for a Executive Assistant →
Frequently asked questions
What should an executive assistant interview scorecard include?
Weighted competencies that reflect the judgment the role requires: calendar judgment on behalf of an executive, discretion with confidential information, travel and logistics under change, gatekeeping and stakeholder triage, anticipation and follow-through, and written communication in the executive voice. Weight calendar judgment highest, since that is the decision made most often. Anchors matter because organized and proactive describe every candidate on paper.
How do you test discretion in an interview?
Watch what the candidate volunteers about a former employer without being asked. Someone with strong discretion describes situations structurally and stops before identifiable detail; someone without it tells you exactly what a named executive was dealing with. That behavior is observable in the interview itself, which makes it more reliable than any question about confidentiality.
How do you compare executive assistants from different company sizes?
Compare the decisions they were trusted with, not the seniority of the person they supported. An assistant to a founder at a 40-person company may have made real calendar and access calls alone, while an assistant in a large corporate may have worked inside a tighter protocol. Score both on the same competencies with the evidence cited next to each rating so the difference in autonomy is visible.
When the stakes are a real hire, use evidence
These tools are quick heuristics. Verdict reads the CV against your job description and scores six dimensions with verbatim quotes as evidence — a hiring document you can defend.