Some of the greatest challenges an assistant manager regularly face includes:

• Leading teams that were once peers; managing those relationships. 
• Managing multiple priorities that include admin responsibilities and team engagement. 
• Understanding the financial impacts of decisions made and budget management. 
• Managing the up-level relationship with your reporting Manager. 
• Losing potential income as a salaried versus an hourly employee. 
• Being confident in a leadership role. 

How these challenges can be overcome: 

1. Recognizing that the relationships with your peers will have to change, have a conversation that details your expectations but welcomes collaborative feedback and problem resolution. Above all, ALWAYS do what you say you will do and within a reasonable timeline. Follow-up if you can’t and check-in regularly. Avoid the tendency to unrealistically over-commit. Understand your role first. 
2. Engaging in your teams, getting to know them and providing a safe work environment. Also recognizing their strengths and weaknesses and leveraging those skills to improve team performance. ALWAYS be respectful of their time and appreciative of their efforts. Hold them respectfully accountable when applicable. ALWAYS partner with your Manager and/or your HR partner during those times of conflict management. 
3. Partner with your Manager to understand your role, expectations, financials, and priorities. Also, take advantage of sharing what you need to succeed as well. 
4. Have a frank conversation with your manager about your salary. Find out if you can get a salary increase and/or what is needed to achieve the highest increase. Take note and record all of your accomplishments throughout the year for your performance appraisal so that you can leverage it to get a salary increase at review time. 
5. Understand that confidence comes with time and experience. Be self-aware of your abilities and always seek to develop yourself through continuous learning, expanding your internal networks and leading projects.

There are likely many more challenges, but these are usually the top. 
I hope this helps! Wishing you well!

No. Recruiters and hiring managers do not want to read three pages of information. 

It's understandable to want to share everything you've done in your career - to acknowledge all of your hard work. You can still share your greatest career achievements in two pages or less. 

Make your resume as concise and impactful as possible. The key is to remember that your resume should be written for the reader, not yourself. Give the reader what they want - share what's in it for them if they hire you. 

Helpful tips: 

• Use job descriptions to find the key words/terms that employees are looking for. 
• Create accomplishment statements that answers What? How? and Result? Use metrics as much as possible. Metrics lend to heightened credibility.
• Remove any dated specifics as technology has transformed many industries making some past accomplishments irrelevant in today's climate. Focus instead on transferable skills.  

On our NetKi Enterprises YouTube page, there is a video titled "How to Write a Fantastic Accomplishment Statement! that provides more insight on how to write accomplishment statements. We also have a career resource that will also make the process easier. You can find it below. 

I hope this helps! 

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