secretarial and pa jobs
These roles come with a variety of different job titles including:
| junior secretary |
secretary |
| office secretary |
senior secretary |
| PA |
executive assistant |
| executive PA |
team secretary |
| personal assistant |
Director's PA |
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However, they all tend to involve providing a range of administrative duties for an individual or team, such as:
- typing up documents
- dealing with the daily post
- answering the telephone
- taking messages
- arranging meetings
- making domestic & international travel arrangements
- photo-copying & printing documents
- booking meeting rooms
- arranging refreshments
If you are thinking about applying for work in this field you are likely to need at least some of the following skills & attributes, and all of them if it is a senior position:
- be well organised
- be smartly dressed
- have a very good telephone manner
- be able to juggle multiple tasks at the same time
- have excellent attention to detail
- have good computer skills (Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Outlook)