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A Night Out for the Assistants!

Submitted by Ethan on May 08, 2009 at 06:33 PM

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Other than Ryan Reynolds in the front row, all the others (mostly men) in the crowd are assistants. On her blog, Deadline Hollywood Daily, Nikki Finke reports about a screening for the new Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds movie, The Proposal, that was screened just for assistants in Hollywood.

The movie’s distributor thought it would be a good PR opportunity to invite assistants to a screening just for them as Reynolds plays an assistant in the movie who is forced to marry his mean boss (Bullock) to keep her from being deported… and we’re pointing it out here as just one of the many perks that an assistant in Hollywood gets; NOT the proposal mind you but the free movie screening.

Perks are a great part of the gig… tickets to Rangers games, concert tickets, parties, gifts given to your boss that they don’t want or need, free lunches, free gym memberships; depending on where you’re working and in what industry, don’t discount the perks.

Through her blog, Nikki highlights the assistant position from time and time like HERE and HERE where she details two of the agencies and the training programs they’ve set up for their assistants. By looking at the “class schedule” though, it seems that these “classes” leave a bunch of important information, tactics and “tricks of the trade” out and given my own experience navigating the treachorous waters of Hollywood as an assistant I’m sure ProAssisting can help you fill that gap!

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