United States
4215- PERSONAL ASSISTANTS AND OTHER SECRETARIES
Job Title:
PERSONAL ASSISTANTS AND OTHER SECRETARIES
Alternate Titles:
Executive assistant,PA-secretary,Personal assistant,Personal secretary,Secretary
Job Description:
Personal assistants and other secretaries provide administrative and secretarial support to individuals, departmental or management teams within organisations.
Education:
There are no minimum academic requirements, although entry to professional secretarial courses typically requires GCSEs/S grades. NVQs/SVQs are available in Administration at Levels 2, 3 and 4.
Refer The S/NVQ framework for more details
NS-SEC:
The simplified NS-SEC analytic class for this code is 3
The simplified NS-SEC operational category for this code is 7.1
Refer The National Statistics Socio-economic Classification for more details
Tasks:
- acts as a first point of contact for a manager or team with colleagues and people from outside organisations, fields telephone enquiries, takes and passes on messages;
- arranges appointments, keeps business diary, organises travel arrangements, makes reservations and organises a variety of functions;
- opens, sorts, distributes and files correspondence (in hard copy and electronic) and deals directly with routine correspondence;
- uses appropriate software to produce correspondence, memoranda, reports, presentations and other documents from drafts, handwritten copy or by transcribing dictation;
- arranges and attends meetings, takes minutes and prepares records of proceedings;
- translates documents and liaises with overseas clients and suppliers.
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