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Company Secretaries

Company secretaries (excluding professional/chartered company secretaries) file and maintain company records, translate notes and dictation into typewritten form and perform other clerical tasks within commercial organisations.

More about this Career

Average Salary

£16807

New workers start around £6595. Normal pay is £16807 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £30417.

Jobs

1214

Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs.

Daily Tasks

  • Ensures office supplies such as stationery and equipment are maintained.
  • Undertakes reception responsibilities by greeting visitors and arranging refreshments.
  • Answers, screens, handles and directs telephone requests and enquiries, takes messages and forwards to the appropriate member of staff.
  • Arranges meetings, circulates agenda and other meeting documents, attends meetings, and takes and prepares minutes.
  • Keeps appointments diary, makes travel arrangements and arranges conference and other functions.
  • Files and retrieves documents, sets up and maintains filing systems and reproduces copies of documentation as required.
  • 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.
  • Opens, sorts, distributes and files correspondence (both hard copy and electronic).

Skills Employers are looking for

Soft Skills

Soft skills are non-technical skills that include how you interact with colleagues, solve problems, and manage your work

  • Active Listening

    61

  • Writing

    61

  • Reading Comprehension

    59

  • Critical Thinking

    57

  • Speaking

    56

  • Monitoring

    54

  • Learning Strategies

    53

  • Active Learning

    51

  • Mathematics

    46

  • Science

    5

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