Administrative Assistant Career

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Introduction A high school diploma, good typing and word processing skills will gradually get you to your suited job: as Administrative Assistant (http://www.careercruising.com/jobdetails_print.asp?LoginID=647926865110602&OccName=Administrative+Assistant March 25 2004). An Administrative Assistant can be categorized into two types: One that may work in an educative environment or one that may work for a business in an office. An Administrative Assistant that may work in an educative environment (school) will basically deal with handling special administrative tasks, student and parent responsibilities or duties, as well as dealing with computerized tasks. An administrative assistant that may work in a business type office will generally deal with the administrative assistant providing secretarial support to a staff of eight as well as providing assistance to the Executive Unit staff of five to six people. The administrative assistant will perform various duties that may include maintaining office information systems, legal files and forms, helping in preparing reports; updating legal materials in the agency or business' office library, recording and distributing incoming and outgoing mail, a ensuring that expenses related to incoming and/or outgoing mail are properly submitted to the fiscal department (http://www.careercruising.com/jobdetails_print.asp?LoginID=647926865110602&OccName=Administrative+Assistant, March 25 2004) The career of Administrative Assistance is a jam-packed employment field and is a position that is in demand. History 1941 was the year that various federal officials, including the Prime Minister had urged the federal department to set up a comprehensive study of administrative studies. ... ... middle of paper ... ...it takes for you to get such a job, better references is sometimes needed if you want to get job at a big company or business. Learning another language like French can enable you to get better job opportunities in the administrative assistant field. Administrative Assistants is mostly like a secretarial type of job, which mostly deals with handling the company meetings and typing most the documents for the manager and the employees. Also answering phone calls, and taking messages. The pay isn't bad… its actually if you ask me very reasonable, depending on how long and how experienced you are determines how much you will get paid. Overall I think the Administrative Assistants career is a very complex yet simple job that gets you in an office to do your job or a cubicle. I don't think I would go for that I would want to be the actual manager of the company instead.

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