I have an interview for a personal assistance job, is it safe?

i found it on an employment search site, the person has a home office and gave me a legit email to answer back to him, an email from a school/company.

iam frankly a bit skeptical but im desperate for a job.
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you see, i spoke to the man, iam a female by the way, and there seemed to be no problem. His email is coname@_ _ _.com. He would only need me 3 days a week to write things run errands etc....i saw somethign wrong with it until i told my mother about this job...

but having someone go with me was the first thing that crossed my mind.

Tell someone where you are going, the address, what time you are supposed to be there and what time you anticipate leaving, just in case this is shady. Ask plenty of questions. The job may be legit but things may be wierd. Just be careful and protect yourself. Recently here in Wisconsin a woman went to take pictures of a car at a salvage lot and was murdered there.

ask a friend to drive you there and wait for you outside the residence while u interview; it's always good to go with your first instincts.

Tell someone where you are going, and have them call you one hour after, just to check on you. Or have someone drive you there and wait in the car.

be cautious but move forward

I once went on a job interview for a similar type of job and it was really weird. I did not take the job.

have someone go with and wait out in the car or near the corner tell them to call you if your not out of therein a half hour better safe then sorry you know nothing about this perso be careful

Only you can decide. Go with your instincts.

If you get a funny feeling when you interview, don't take the job.
Simple!

Umm... it's not safe very often.

NO. SEX OFFENDER ALERT!!! GET THE HELL OUT OF THERE AND RUN!!!!

Did this potential employer give you a telephone number where he can be reached? If so, I would call and respectfully ask if he would be willing to meet you at a coffee shop or restaurant for this interview. If this is a legitimate opportunity and a sensible business person , he will comply with your request. Not having a contact phone number would make me very hesitant to go to an address alone.
Added information .. Many home based businesses are legitimate and they usually have websites to advertise. I would do a little research into this company. Also many small business's are members of Better Business Bureau . Call them and find out if he is a member, they may also be able to give you information about the company. Whatever you do ..do not go there alone.

IF YOU ARE THAT SCARED THEN HAVE THIS PERSON CHECKED OUT BY THE POLICE AND CHECK THE BBB TO SEE IF THERE ARE ANY COMPLAINTS ON HIM THEN IF YOU CANNOT FIND ANYTHING THEN HAVE A FRIEND THAT YOU TRUST TAKE YOU TO THE INTERVIEW AND ALSO LET AS MANY PEOPLE KNOW WHERE AND WHEN YOU ARE GOING. UBOVE ALL TAKE A CELL PHONE WITH YOU THAT HAS GPS ON IT.

yeah i think it would be safe

Just be careful and make sure someone knows where you are.. Make sure to have your cell phone with you at all times. Or have someone take you. and if thing get weird get the heck outta there.. Good luck and be careful

My old neighbor had a small business, he hired an AA to help with paperworks at both his office and home. He was a nice fellow.

I would suggest asking to meet at a public place for the interview.

I think you know the answer - go with your first gut feeling. If you are still unsure, have someone drive you. My husband always drive me to interviews, not because of this, but you never know about people these days.

You should have someone go with you and wait in the car while you interview. Good Luck!

Since you are asking this question, you do not think so. I hope you keep looking for something better. Trust your instincts. I think it is fishy.

You won't know for sure until ya check it out. If ya have an uncomfortable feeling about it ?? Take someone with you on the interview. Being a personal assistant can be very rewarding..

NO it is not safe who knows what kind of person he or she is how bout if they are lying i wouldn't go for it until i meet those people in a busy place. were there are a bunch of people.

Can you meet someplace other than his home office?
Or maybe have a friend drive you and have them wait outside?

go check it out. then decide.

If after carefully checking and verifying the legitimacy of the job offer, there's probably no reason to be skeptical.

But, If you're really having doubts about it, listen to the age-old saying...

"When in doubt....don't."

Good luck.

Peace.

I don't quite know what kind of job that is, but you should never do such an interview in someones home. If you are nervous ask to meet at a Starbucks or something. If it is legit they will agree. If not run....

See if you could arrange for the interview to be held in a public place, but of course a place where you would have enough privacy for the interview (a restaurant during non-busy hours like mid-afternoon). If you have to, explain that since you don't know him at all you would prefer the interview be done in some public place. If he's any kind of decent adult, he should understand and be agreeable to this. Then see how you feel about the person interviewing you. If he invites you to see his (home) office, schedule it for another day and take someone with you. Of course keep your instincts keen. If at any time, you feel uncomfortable, just drop it at that.
You never know though, it could be completely legitimate and possibly a good job.

I agree with the have someone bring you and wait path of logic. Also, you could do a drive by of the location ahead of time. I know someone that has started up their own business as a personal assistant and it is going good for them. You might consider getting a business license and making a career out of this type of work if you like it. Contracting would make things easier on those who might want to use your services and allow you to protect yourself and be above board as well. There REALLY are legit jobs for this type of work out there, I applied to one once and it would have been fine if I had been given the job. There is also a chance it could be something else, so just be careful and take reasonable precautions. I think a pre-interview drive by and then having someone come with is reasonable. I would also make plans ahead of time just in case like "I will NOT ask you to come inside with me or tell you to leave, so if I come to the door and motion for you to come in or leave call 911 and get help FAST!" Better safe than sorry, and no sense passing up a golden opportunity... Hope this helps...

my dad has a personal assistant, its a cool job.

If you are concerned check out the company thru the states corporated registry and if you are still concerned have someone go with you to the interview not into the interview of course just to be there.

Do a google search on this employers name.

""A Day in the Life of a Personal Assistant

Wake up. Drive to Boss's House. Think to myself "way way too
early". Make tea. Get ready to wake Boss for an early morning conference call
with foreign editor. Attempt to wake Boss. Find what looks like a corpse. Remember Boss
promised to have an "Early Night" and wake upon the dawn like a lark, refreshed
and ready for the day. Realize Boss has only been asleep for an hour or so.

Shake corpse. Corpse attempts speech. Corpse fails. Tea, I say,
over and over, in conversational tones. Boss makes it to tea, which is beside
the bed, not a far leap for many, but a large one for Boss. Asks me to find the
Last Big Contract for the Last Big Project but I am too smart for that trick.
Wait until Boss is actually working thru morning e-mail until I leave the room.

Make more tea. Start to go thru the mail, which comes in a bucket sort
of thing every morning. Throw away the junk. Bucket thing still full. Start to
open the Mail and sort into piles. Important, Black and Whites of Comics in
Progress, Galleys of Books in Progress, Case of Mangos (look, if you want
something from me, case of mangos gets that request right to the top)
contracts, requests for quotes, fan mail, gifts from fans and friends,
Things From Editors, Publishers, and Studios, CDs people have sent, and really
odd things. (see essay on Top 10 Things
Never To Send Your Favorite Writer ) Notice one of the CDs. Stop. Impressed.
Love her work. Pop cd into the player. Ah, yes....

Time for more tea for
Boss. Remind him about the conference call in ten minutes. He asks, any chance
of breakfast? Make breakfast. Fast. Get Boss on call, with more tea and go
downstairs with tiara for the portion of the day known as "Princess of No"

E-mail. Lots of E-mail. I promise myself I will, today, get it down
under 500 today. I will be patient. I will be kind, as I dash people's hopes and
dreams. You have 130 new e-mails, my computer helpfully tells me. Well, it's
early I think, not to worry, can't really sink my teeth into it until I get at
least 200.

Dear Assistant, we would like to invite your Boss to our
Con next month, next year, in ten years time, many of them start out. Can't
be done, sorry, he is booked thru the year 2060. When he will be 100. Sorry,
says the Princess of No.

Dear Assistant, can we interview your Boss
for our web-page, fanzine, newspaper, major paper, television show,
documentary? "Maybe," I tell the Washington Post, David Letterman and the
guy doing a documentary on .Seriously Weird Un-dead Things who Like Mangos (hey,
I like Seriously Weird Un-dead Things and Mangos, rule number one, get the
Assistant behind you ).......

The ones that come thru foreign publishers, I say,
"you get one major interview, pick it wisely, that's it for you". Boss is
published in over 40 different countries. I wonder how we are going to do 40
interviews for his current bestselling book, the one coming out in a month, and
the two movies he is working on. Everyone else gets to meet the Princess of No.
(No one likes her. UN-popular )

Dear Assistant, I wrote you almost
a week ago and have received no reply to my questions, what's the problem?
I have my first good laugh of the day.

Dear Assistant, I am an
aspiring writer-publisher-editor-illustrator and desire greatly to get into the
field and am inquiring about an internship with Mr Gaiman, I don't need to be
paid, just a couch to sleep on and I feel I could be of great help working with
him and his publishers and could learn a lot from an internship. (hmmm...we DO need someone for the garden. But no.)

Receive a letter
from my best friend asking what I am up to today. Ruining people's hopes and
dreams I say. Oh, she writes back, the usual. Another letter friend asks can we
go out sometime. I wonder idly what that means.

(During the E-mail phase
I should point out the phone has not once stopped ringing. )

Boss is off
the conference call and I give him a list of calls to return. He lets me know
the cats have been peeing in inappropriate places. I apologize and take
responsibility for the cats' bladders, and go have a talk with the cats. Look
says I, you gots these nice litter boxes, whyfor you peeing around all the
doors? Cats say because you close the doors. I say, Because if we don't you pee
in the rooms. Stand off. Never argue with a cat.

Arrange with Movie People for Boss to go out for Meetings the following week. Arrange car to
airport, air, car to hotel, hotel car service to meetings and airport again.
Arrange Meetings: Breakfast, Coffee, Lunch, Coffee, Drinks, Dinner, Drinks for
people in order of importance. Wonder that Boss isn't fat and floating
away.

In one of the ebs and flows we find ourselves, Boss and I, able to
flee the house and have a walk round the garden. Nice garden, nice walk.Take
notebook, always. Now I have things to do if I get bored. Not to complain, I
like the garden. Threaten plants with pruning shears if they don't start growing
better and making me look bad.

I go to the grocery store, the post office, the bank, the garden center and out for some really weird electronics whose purpose I will never understand.

Back home again I hear Boss on
the phone with Friend with Family in Town. I overhear Boss say Sure, come on
out tonight for dinner and spend the night, I have to leave for the UK in the
morning, but that's ok. Wait, I say, leaving out the fact I am completely
unaware of this UK trip, first things first, How Many and What do they Eat? Go
back to grocery store, find beds and bedding.. NOW....

What do you mean, Boss you leave tomorrow? Oh. Right. Says he. Director needs me on the set.. Just found out. Oh, I need to go via Tasmania. Right.

Set up airfare from Midwest to Tasmania, find
hotel with shuttle, and arrange flights to UK and hotel and back home four days later.

Have short talk with Boss about tomorrow's flight. I tell him
again that flights will not wait upon him, they are fixed and firm and WILL
leave without him. Boss finds this funny. Again. Remind Boss that he is leaving
for LA the day after he gets back from the UK.

Boss brings home
Tasmanian Devil. Research Tasmanian Devil care. Boss tells me Tas has shredded
the couch. Take responsibility for Tas's claws. Shoot Tas. Know that if Boss
asks where's Tas, the phone will ring, and he might forget for days.

Phone rings. Oh, says I, he's here. Oh, uh, loved your last movie.
Lovely about the Oscar.

Check e-mail. Ah, that's more like it. Numbers I
can really sink my teeth into. Letter from Godlike Writer asking is Boss free to
be Grand Master of Everything on April 30th he says he will if he's free. Sure,
says I, he has nothing except Easter Weekend when he is Godlike Master of
Everything at the Most important Thing in the World. Easter Weekend, I recall
from last year, is in early April. Copy Boss. Get mail back from Boss. Find out
Easter Weekend Moves Each Year and is now on April 30th. Damm. Write letters throwing myself on my sword.

Being a Personal Assistant is like shooting from the hip. You have to be
fast, you have to be ready. If it goes wrong, oh, and it will, you will take the
blame. If it goes right, that's good because that's how it should be. I,
however, know that I am appreciated. My Boss has the sweetest temper going, and
is one of the kindest people I have ever met. I know everything I do is really
really important. He has told me so, many times.

I lay in my bed,
wishing I had got everything I wanted to done, and run over my various
affirmations for the day tomorrow. I will get my e-mail under 500. I will get tomatoes staked. I will be friendly, funny, and try and get to the gym.

Then two very very truthful, simple and
profound things occur to me and I smile.

I so love my job. And....

Thank the Gods that I am not as busy as my Boss.

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