Personal Assistants and Other Secretaries
Personal assistants and other secretaries provide administrative and secretarial support to individuals, departmental or management teams within organisations.
More about this Career
Average Salary
£19356
New workers start around £4759. Normal pay is £19356 per year. Highly experienced workers can earn up to £38790.
Jobs
6275
Job counts include both employed and self-employed persons, and do not distinguish between full and part-time jobs.
Daily Tasks
- Translates documents and liaises with overseas clients and suppliers.
- Arranges and attends meetings, takes minutes and prepares records of proceedings.
- 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 (in hard copy and electronic) and deals directly with routine correspondence.
- Arranges appointments, keeps business diary, organises travel arrangements, makes reservations and organises a variety of functions.
- 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.
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
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Active Listening
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Writing
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Reading Comprehension
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Speaking
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Critical Thinking
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Active Learning
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Monitoring
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Learning Strategies
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Mathematics
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Science
