Her Story
About Cassidy
My typical day involves maintaining multiple calendars for managers, scheduling two conference rooms and two vehicles, and processing travel for everybody in our division. I order supplies and equipment, reconcile credit card statements, and handle a lot of confidential and sensitive assignments as the admin for the division manager. I draft board agenda items and manage vehicle maintenance, keeping track with fleet services for quarterly maintenance. I maintain staff vehicle records, ensuring anyone who drives county vehicles has their vehicle insurance declarations on file. I keep track of modified work schedules and assist with onboarding and training the clerical team. I've processed mass mailings and handle multiple phone lines and respective inboxes. Currently, I'm also working in our parks unit since they lost their clerical person about 6 months ago, so I've been assisting a lot with that unit as well. This includes handling parks reservations, annual park passes, scheduling, and tracking income. I draft confirmation letters for reservations and coordinate with our business office to collect payments. I schedule things for supervisors on a monthly basis so they know what events are coming up. I've always been the right hand of a manager since I started, and I was the only clerical person when I first started, so I did everything from phones to logging and paying bills, maintaining evacuation procedures, and even backup radio dispatch. I have a tendency to overwork myself and never leave at 5 o'clock because there's always a fire to put out, whether it's someone who needs their credit card information while traveling or pushing to get information to executives in my department by deadline.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with Cassidy
01What do you attribute your success to?
I don't think I looked for success, I feel like it more found me. I was a young mom who needed to get out and work. I've always been good with numbers, so I went into accounting first. I took accounting classes and got my first job in a professional office in an accounting office. I've just been very detail-oriented, and things have just kind of happened for me. Doors have opened for me. My mom is from another country, so education was big to her. I was a straight-A student from junior high all the way through high school, so I was always pushing, pushing, pushing myself. That's probably what has a lot to do with the way that I'm shaped now. The way I was raised has influenced who I am today.
02What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
You definitely have to be able to prioritize daily. There's always going to be a fire to put out. You need to know your own limits. I have a tendency to overwork myself, so I'm still working on not doing that and having healthy boundaries, because I am the person who never leaves at 5 o'clock. When there's an emergency going on, like someone who didn't have their current credit card with them, I'm putting out fires quite a bit. I don't leave for breaks because there's always a deadline. I'm pushing to get information to executives in my department. My biggest challenge is probably my own time management, because I tend to just keep going. It's hard to change when you've been doing something for so long. It's not going to happen overnight.
03What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
I'm very strong in my faith. I attend church weekly and have a Bible study every week. I also have a book club where I read a lot of faith-based books that focus on personal development. I love books like those by Mark Batterson, my favorite author. I believe that if you want to live a life of significance, you need to live a life of serving someone or something. I think most people who are happy are those who serve. This belief actually inspired me to reach out to some friends and ask what my strengths were, and then I reached out to a smaller pool of closer friends to ask what my weaknesses were. You have to have that honest feedback from your closest people in order to see how other people see you. I also believe that even if you're a parent, you're a leader to that baby. Leadership exists in every capacity of life.
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