Junior to Owner – Fireside Chat with Candice Burningham, Founder of Admin Avenues

Gem Nation / September 20th, 2024

Junior to Owner – Fireside Chat with Candice Burningham, Founder of Admin Avenues

Learn how to go from a junior to a business owner by using the experience you have, identifying a problem in the market and creating a business to deliver to that audience, whilst building a community in the process.

Candice Burningham started her 20-year admin career as an ‘Office Junior’ at an Architects firm in Brisbane, Australia. She worked her way up to being a C-Suite Executive Assistant to some of the biggest and brightest minds globally. She has delivered the executive and operational support for presidents, CEOs, and founders of some of the top media, entertainment, design and financial companies. She knows and understands the admin community and its key companies, industries, and trends in the Australian market.

After coming back to Australia from the UK in August of 2021, Candice started searching for jobs. She was shocked to find that there was no one website or community just for admin roles. She searched and searched and searched – nope! Just a few specialist admin recruitment agencies. Her surprise and frustration resulted in an idea. She founded Admin Avenues to solve two main problems: finding great admin roles and helping employers find great admin candidates.

Admin Avenues is a website strictly for admin professionals. Administrative staff are vital to business and therefore, Candice knew the industry needed a niche specialist website that solely focuses on jobs in admin.

The second problem she wanted to solve was for a white glove approach, ultra-flexible virtual assistant service for those who don’t require support full-time but need assistance on a “tap in and out” basis. This led Candice to launch The Executive Support – a specialist agency for high-net-worth individuals, family offices, entrepreneurs, and C-suite executives.

The masterclass will cover: