As a celebrity personal assistant you can earn up to $100,000 per year, and enjoy an incredible lifestyle that most people can only dream about.

Celebrity assistants get to experience the lives of the rich and famous. Being a celebrity personal assistant allows you to enter this exclusive world and live like a star. 

As a personal assistant you may take care of a celebrity's household, screen their phone calls and fan mail, plan their parties, and do other tasks to take care of the celebrity.

Most celebrity personal assistants get to travel and spend time with famous, talented people. You may go behind the scenes at film shoots, and if your celebrity can't attend the sold-out sports event, concert or movie premiere, guess what? You do! 

"[Benefits include] box seats to concerts like N'Sync, traveling first class, phone calls from your celeb's colleagues like Jamie Lee Curtis and my very own Palm Pilot courtesy of the boss. Whenever I travel with the boss everyone sees us as a team, and we both get the VIP treatment. Oh, and of course guest lists on any club of your choice."
  - David Katz, Celebrity Personal Assistant to
    Steve Burns of Nickelodeon's Blues Clues

Some celebrity personal assistants have moved on to other exciting careers. Madonna's assistant became her manager, and other assistants have gone on to executive positions in the film industry.

If this sounds like the career of your dreams, the FabJob Guide to Become a Celebrity Personal Assistant is for you! This e-book gives you the industry secrets and practical advice you need to get started and succeed as a celebrity assistant.

The lead author of this guide is John C. Havens, a successful actor and writer who has worked in television, film, and on stage with dozens of celebrities such as Gwyneth Paltrow and Dennis Leary. The contributing authors are: 

• Tag Goulet: As founders of FabJob Inc., Tag and Catherine Goulet are the world's leading experts on how to break into a dream career. Their career advice appears frequently at AOL.com, MSN.com, and in newspapers throughout the U.S. and Canada.
• Rhonda Markowitz: Rhonda is a respected entertainment journalist who has written for major media outlets including People.com and MTV news.
• Jason Simas: Jason found his first job in L.A. working as a butler for a celebrity before joining the William Morris Agency. The projects he has worked on have featured many celebrities including Renee Zellwegger and George Clooney.

In this e-book they share with you insider information to help you launch your career and get hired as a celebrity assistant. Among the topics covered are:

Getting Ready

• What does a celebrity look for in a personal assistant?
• Choosing the type of celebrity you want to work for:
  • Famous actors
  • Best-selling authors
  • Professional athletes
  • Famous business executives
  • Rock stars
  • Politicians
  • Wealthy families
  • Other celebrities
• How to get experience as a personal assistant
• How to quickly learn the skills you need to get hired, including:
  • Party planning
  • Personal shopping
  • Household management
  • Office management
  • How to handle important people on the phone

• How to find contact information for celebrities 
• How to use your existing network for a referral to a celebrity
• How to meet people who are one step from a celebrity:
  • Agents
  • Attorneys who work with celebrities
  • Managers
  • Publicists (press agents)
• The best charities to volunteer with for opportunities to meet celebrities
• Entry level jobs that can lead to a connection with a celebrity (including opportunities to work in film and television)
• Parties and social events, plus tips for getting into an exclusive party without an invitation
• Creative ways to connect with a celebrity
• The guide includes a special section on networking in Los Angeles:
  • Finding the right place to live
  • Places to eat, drink and be seen

• Where to find celebrity personal assistant jobs advertised
• How to find job openings through word of mouth
• Employment agencies that can find celebrity assistant jobs for you 
• The best ways to contact the people who can hire you
  • When to use email
  • Getting through to the right person
  • What to say (includes a sample voice mail message to get your call returned)
• How to prepare a resume that will put you ahead of the competition (includes a sample resume)
• Writing an effective cover letter (includes samples)
• How to get excellent references
• How to do well during a "screening interview"
• Meeting the celebrity
• What to do after the interview

• Common mistakes to avoid (and what you should not say when applying for a job as a celebrity personal assistant)
• Other jobs working with celebrities (nanny, butler, baby-sitter, etc.)
• Organizations for celebrity personal assistants
• Negotiating your salary and benefits

You will find their answers to questions such as:

• How did you become a celebrity personal assistant?
• What advice do you have to help someone break in to this career?
• How should a celebrity be contacted if someone wants to be their personal assistant?
• What specific dos and don'ts would you give to someone for a job interview with a celebrity?

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If you believe you deserve to have the career of your dreams, this guide is for you. It gives you what you need to know to get hired as a celebrity personal assistant. 

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Being a celebrity is probably the closest to being a beautiful woman as you can get.

Parenting: I want A-levels in fame, celebrity and being a star A whole generation is growing up wanting just one thing — to be famous. Should parents be worried, asks Jane Thynne

If there’s one question every child learns to loathe, it’s “What do you want to be when you grow up?”, usually because the adult who asks is all too ready to dish out criticism and throw in some unwanted advice of their own. But any adult still expecting to get the traditional replies of policeman, astronaut, teacher, doctor or racing driver, is in for a shock. Anyone quizzing a child today is more likely to hear, “I want to be famous!” Being Famous now counts as a career ambition all on its own. As children grow up in a celebrity culture, on first name terms with those who only use one name — Kylie, Posh, Jordan, Madonna, Beckham, Beyoncé — their own aspiration to celebrity increases. “My daughter and all her friends want to be famous,” says Melanie Clough, mother of three children aged 16, 13 and 11. “They don’t say how. To be famous in itself represents success to them. It’s alarmingly shallow. When I asked my 13-year-old what she wanted for her 18th birthday she said a nose job and liposuction.” <A TARGET="_blank" HREF="http://ad.uk.doubleclick.net/click%3Bh=v5|336f|3|0|%2a|r%3B24890077%3B0-0%3B2%3B6925426%3B4307-300|250%3B14188420|14206316|1%3B%3B%7Esscs%3D%3fhttp://www.timesonline.co.uk/section/0,,23509,00.html"><IMG SRC="http://m2.2mdn.net/720796/sudoku_300x250.gif" BORDER=0></A> When I was a child, most people wanted to be a vet. Those who didn’t might aspire to teacher or archeologist, all jobs which involved the dull business of choosing the right A-levels and training for years. Now, the ideal career is the instant one. “The days when children wanted to be astronauts or fighter pilots is long gone,” the head teacher of a Surrey prep school told me. “Perhaps 10 years ago I would have boffin kids who wanted to be a nuclear scientist, but not any more. Nowadays they want something far more nebulous, which is celebrity.” Sebastian Scott, a former television presenter, now managing director of Princess Productions, which makes reality television shows, says he gets “hundreds” of applications from young people and the numbers are growing all the time. “The vast majority say they want to be researchers,” he says. “However, they really want to go straight on screen. “They see celebrity as a quick fix for any problems in their life. They’ll be popular and rich. Being a celebrity looks like an unskilled job but the truth is that to be good is very skilled and takes many years. If people are propelled to fame before they have the skills to support it they become unstuck.” Is this longing for fame a response to a culture that has demeaned traditional professions? Who would want to be a policeman when they’ve seen The Bill? Who would want to be a politician when they’ve seen the news? More youngsters voted in Pop Idol than the last election. Does it matter? When my four-year-old informs me she wants to be a pop star like Joss Stone, should I mind? It’s not as if anyone aged four wants to be a quantity surveyor or a financial services manager. And what’s wrong with wanting to excel? “Being interested in celebrities and aspiring to fame is not all negative,” says John Maltby, lecturer in psychology at Leicester University and co-author of a study on young people’s attitudes to celebrity. “Celebrity worship now provides an important reference point for growing up. It’s part of the transfer of attachment from parents to peer group. Also, whereas in past times family, friends and teachers were influential role models, celebrities now fulfil that role. The fact is that celebrity is so much part of our culture — on TV, the internet, magazines — and we need to look deeper at how its values influence our children.” For parents of the wannabe famous, though, it’s the emptiness of the celebrity aspiration that concerns them. From lottery winners and reality TV participants such as Jade Goody, to tabloid kiss-and-tell characters such as Rebecca Loos, David Beckham’s friend, children are surrounded by images of those who have achieved fame through very little effort of their own. The media’s keenness to highlight the ordinariness of celebrities — their bad hair days, their spots, their grocery shopping — only increases the idea of the accessibility of fame itself. And many would share the view of Katie, 9, who told me: “Being a celebrity isn’t boring, there’s always something to do and people wanting to meet you.” Yet there are signs that children even as they crave fame, are aware of the downsides. They understand that their idols can crash and burn, or, like David Beckham, take knocks. They know fame comes in different degrees. “The kids who come to us understand there’s a temporary form of fame, which only a few people will make a lasting thing of,” says Scott. “Most of them know you’re famous for 15 minutes.” Not, however, that he thinks it will diminish the desire for fame. “Celebrities are everywhere and they’re used to sell everything. When Liz Hurley and Sienna Miller feature in the newspapers instead of figures such as the Duke of Edinburgh, it’s no wonder that children want to compete in Big Brother rather than the Duke of Edinburgh award scheme.”

In what is sure to be another OJ-style media circus, Los Angeles Laker’s basketball star Kobe Bryant (right) will soon be going on trial for sexual assault. And like OJ Simpson, the outcome of this trial will also never be in doubt.

Kobe’s string of lucrative endorsements may dry up, but the continuation of the man’s basketball career is not in any serious jeopardy. There is no question that Kobe Bryant will get a fair trial. However, it has yet to be seen whether the woman can get one.

I am making no charges as to the man’s guilt or innocence or the credibility of the woman’s charges. We do know Kobe is guilty of questionable judgment and of seeking to break his marriage vows. Only two people know what actually went on in that Colorado motel room and the whole truth may not be fully contained in either of their testimonies.

Celebrity status in America doesn’t only give you the means to purchase many of life’s finest amenities. It also gives you the ability—no matter what may be your offense—to purchase a favorable verdict or simply to walk away from the consequences of your actions.

To the casual observer, Kobe Bryant seemed to have it all. The man had the looks, fame, talent, wealth, an attractive wife, the “good guy” personna, and a string of endorsements to go with them. The average American Joe, holding a beer and a remote control in front of his television set, would gladly have traded places with the man. What more could a man possibly want? In Kobe’s case, it was one thing: MORE!

And if he should indeed be found guilty of the charges, then apparently Kobe—like the reality challenged, former heavyweight boxer Mike Tyson—would not be stopped by the word “no.”

Country singer Brad Paisley recently recorded a song, “Celebrity,” that humorously, but accurately, describes the situation in America for those who have attained celebrity status. It talks about how television personalities can routinely break the law and their sentences involve nothing more than fulfilling some hours of community service. And there is no doubt that Kobe Bryant’s face is infinitely more marketable than that of Iron Mike Tyson.

American juries love to reward those individuals who climb to the top of our current pop culture. Tough “guilty” verdicts will not win the jurors a chance to score the celeb’s autograph or to win a personal snapshot of them standing side-by-side. It may even cost a juror the possibility of a future book deal on the most recent “trial of the century.”

Some have suggested that Kobe’s biggest problem may be the location of his alleged crime. Their reasoning implies that Colorado juries may take a tougher bite out of crime than a jury of his peers seated in ritzy California. However, that line of thinking has one major flaw: Colorado is not all that different from Hollyweird.

In the past few years, Colorado has recently become the new “in place” for the glitzerazzi of Hollywood. Why do you think you think that Kobe went there in the first place? Look at all the plush estates and expensive mountain chateaus that have been built there by the biggest names in entertainment. Many of these celebrities, who are so passionately concerned about the “fragile” environment that is being destroyed by “evil” corporate executives, have absolutely no qualms about the wholesale rape and pillage of pristine Aspen wilderness to build them another expensive and secluded hideaway, nestled in ski country, free of the smoke and din of Los Angeles.

In this trial, it is not the Los Angeles basketball star who is the outsider. That title will be reserved for the local woman. As sure as I’m alive, I am confident that Kobe will do the thing he does while going to the hoop on a fast break. He will walk!

As Brad Paisley would say, “It’s just so tough, being a celebrity.”

But if I am wrong and a more serious fate befalls Kobe Bryant, then perhaps the prison’s conjugal visits will rekindle the passion that was obviously lacking from the basketball star’s seemingly blissful marriage. ***

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