There can be many different ways you could try to enforce your own expectations onto the secretarial admin jobs interview process.

You may:

• Just be insanely positive about things.
• Possess an unshakeable belief that you are the hottest secretarial jobs talent on the market.
• Be running out of time or money.
• Desperately need to get a new secretarial admin job.
• Believe the secretarial jobs interview process will be quick and super easy.

Hurry up and wait.

Do not tip your hand, when you give away your desperation or over eagerness it's all over, can open, worms everywhere, crashed and burned, your hopes melt faster than the ice in James Bonds cocktail.

• Getting new secretarial jobs takes as long as it takes.
• Despite what you may think, or how much you wish it would go quicker, the secretarial jobs process always takes a long time.
• Even when expectations have been set that secretarial recruitment will be short, it is a hulkng, slow tortoise of a task.
• The hiring process is a complex series of events that requires all decision makers present at the necessary times for the decision to be executed.
• Nothing happens over Christmas, New year or Summer, too many key people are on holiday.

Be sure to allow yourself enough time to find a new secretarial job or you will feel pressured and stressed, try to focus on the right attitude, planning and of course budgeting.

Don't underestimate how hard the secretarial recruitment process is:

• Be prepared for it to be tough mentally and physically.
• You may start to get sick of playing the secretarial recruitment game over and over.

Beware of declining secretarial vacancies by being too choosy, keep options open:

This is how a secretarial jobs seeker generally starts:

• I want a minimum of 25k base.
• I want to be EA to the Managing Director
• My commute will take 20 minutes or less.
• No travel with the role.
• I'd like to manage a direct report.
• I want a better job title.

People who are this specific and demanding can miss out on great secretarial job vacancies along the way.

After 6 months out of work the hardest to please Candidates generally come back to me humbled, running out of money, cap in hand for any secretarial vacancies that are available. I have even known people to take low level admin jobs because they were too quick to turn down great secretarial job vacancies.

The best stance here is to play the game, judge secretarial vacancies based on their merits, try to be open to anything initially. To speak with as many Companies as possible. Many companies will tweak an opportunity to suit the right person, but to be in that position you need to have opened the door and peeked their interest first.

Don't price yourself out of your own salary.

I can't tell you how many times I have had to muffle my giggles when some-one tells me their salary expectations. There are shocking discrepancies between what different people doing the same secretarial jobs get paid. Some people are astonishingly underpaid whereas others seem to be on super inflated wages.

• It is a good idea to know what you are worth within in the secretarial jobs marketplace.
• There are resources on the internet to help you with this.
• You could also try secretarial jobs forums.
• Ask people who do a similar role.
• Ask a decent secretarial recruiter for an average.

It's a war out there. No-one wants to be the hot potato Candidate no-one wants to work with. By adjusting your own expectations you can head into your secretarial jobs search armed, prepared, ready to fight and win your dream secretarial job.