Renate Fisher
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Last visited: 07/02/2008 11:19
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I was born in Germany but have now spent almost as many years in English and French speaking countries as in Germany itself. My early career was spent working as a multi-lingual (English, French & German) Secretary in London and Paris before returning to Cologne as Office Manager and Personal Assistant to the Managing Director of a British Company. This position gave me my first exposure to Personnel Management and the Employment Law in general.
After a few years in Glastonbury, Somerset, and Rotherham, S. Yorkshire I moved with my family to New Jersey, USA.
Whilst living in the United States I was very much involved in voluntary work for charitable and non-profit organisations and accepted several leading positions. In 1994 I co-founded the SummerMusicAcademy "4Strings" in Morristown, New Jersey, and managed it as president until our return to England in 1996. I just love working with creative people, and those years in the States provided me with wonderful experiences, and I remember the friends and relationships I gained during that time with great fondness.
The next couple of years after our return to the UK were spent as the assistant to the proprietor of a rental agency, which specialised in the letting of luxury properties in the south of France.
In 1999 I accepted the position of PA to the Managing Director of the European Headquarters of a global engineering company and due to my past experience in Human Resources I became in time responsible for our staff in France, Belgium and Germany.
I founded Eur-PA Virtual Assistant Services at the beginning of 2007 to provide executive PA and multi-lingual business support. My services include word processing, diary and e-mail management, travel arrangements and event management. Due to my background in Human Resources and my experience with Employment Laws in Germany and England I am also able to assist businesses with most of their personnel issues, i.e. recruitment/interviewing, employment contracts and general employment policies as well as dismissal and redundancy procedures.
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