Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
Tasks Include:
- Manage and maintain executives' schedules.
- Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, or presentation software.
- Read and analyze incoming memos, submissions, and reports to determine their significance and plan their distribution.
- Open, sort, and distribute incoming correspondence, including faxes and email.
- File and retrieve corporate documents, records, and reports.
- Greet visitors and determine whether they should be given access to specific individuals.
- Prepare responses to correspondence containing routine inquiries.
- Make travel arrangements for executives.
- Conduct research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees, and boards of directors.
- Attend meetings to record minutes.
- Answer phone calls and direct calls to appropriate parties or take messages.
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The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™; US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
Projections Quick View:
Virginia: -17.6%
National: -20.2%
Education
Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree)
Job Zone:
Three: Medium Preparation Needed
Income Range:
Highest ($50,000 and up)
Median Earnings:
National
$65,980.00
State
$72,320.00
Regional
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
Description
Career Cluster: | Business, Management & Administration |
Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, and handling information requests, as well as performing routine administrative functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.
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Education
Required Level of Education
- Associate's Degree (or other 2-year degree) = 33.77%
- High School Diploma - or the equivalent (for example, GED) = 24.20%
- Some College Courses = 20.91%
- Bachelor's Degree = 11.87%
- Post-Master's Certificate - awarded for completion of an organized program of study; designed for people who have completed a Master's degree but do not meet the requirements of academic degrees at the doctoral level. = 3.38%
- First Professional Degree - awarded for completion of a program that: requires at least 2 years of college work before entrance into the program, includes a total of at least 6 academic years of work to complete, and provides all remaining academic requirements to begin practice in a profession. = 2.88%
- Master's Degree = 1.72%
- Post-Secondary Certificate - awarded for training completed after high school (for example, in agriculture or natural resources, computer services, personal or culinary services, engineering technologies, healthcare, construction trades, mechanic and repair technologies, or precision production) = 1.27%
Related Work Experience
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 29.25%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 28.93%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 6 years = 17.70%
- Over 6 years, up to and including 8 years = 9.73%
- None = 6.58%
- Over 10 years = 3.17%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 3.04%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 1.02%
- Up to and including 1 month = 0.58%
On-Site or In-Plant Training
- None = 31.35%
- Up to and including 1 month = 27.80%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 11.78%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 7.63%
- Over 2 years, up to and including 4 years = 6.45%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 6.24%
- Over 4 years, up to and including 10 years = 5.92%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 2.82%
On-the-Job Training
- Anything beyond short demonstration, up to and including 1 month = 39.47%
- Over 1 month, up to and including 3 months = 24.52%
- Over 6 months, up to and including 1 year = 13.29%
- Over 1 year, up to and including 2 years = 11.54%
- Over 3 months, up to and including 6 months = 6.48%
- None or short demonstration = 4.70%
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Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
Tasks
Core Tasks Include:
- Manage and maintain executives' schedules.
- Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, or presentation software.
- Read and analyze incoming memos, submissions, and reports to determine their significance and plan their distribution.
- Open, sort, and distribute incoming correspondence, including faxes and email.
- File and retrieve corporate documents, records, and reports.
- Greet visitors and determine whether they should be given access to specific individuals.
- Prepare responses to correspondence containing routine inquiries.
- Make travel arrangements for executives.
- Conduct research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees, and boards of directors.
- Attend meetings to record minutes.
- Answer phone calls and direct calls to appropriate parties or take messages.
- Perform general office duties, such as ordering supplies, maintaining records management database systems, and performing basic bookkeeping work.
- Prepare agendas and make arrangements, such as coordinating catering for luncheons, for committee, board, and other meetings.
- Coordinate and direct office services, such as records, departmental finances, budget preparation, personnel issues, and housekeeping, to aid executives.
- Provide clerical support to other departments.
Supplemental Tasks Include:
- Compile, transcribe, and distribute minutes of meetings.
- Meet with individuals, special interest groups, and others on behalf of executives, committees, and boards of directors.
- Set up and oversee administrative policies and procedures for offices or organizations.
- Review operating practices and procedures to determine whether improvements can be made in areas such as workflow, reporting procedures, or expenditures.
- Interpret administrative and operating policies and procedures for employees.
- Process payroll information.
- Supervise and train other clerical staff and arrange for employee training by scheduling training or organizing training material.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
Tools and Technology
Tools Include:
- Adding machines
- Calculators or accessories (Calculators)
- Scanners (Data input scanners)
- Desktop computers
- Dictation machines (Dictation equipment)
- Digital cameras
- Typewriters (Electric typewriters)
- Facsimile machines (Fax machines)
- Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Handheld computers)
- Notebook computers (Laptop computers)
- Liquid crystal display projector (Liquid crystal display LCD video projectors)
- Special purpose telephones (Multi-line telephone systems)
- Pagers
- Personal computers
- Personal digital assistant PDAs or organizers (Personal digital assistants PDA)
- Photocopiers (Photocopying equipment)
- Scanners
Technologies Include:
- Accounting software
- Accounting software
- Sage Peachtree Premium Accounting for Manufacturing
- Intuit QuickBooks software
- Sage Peachtree software
- Analytical or scientific software
- KAPES software
- MTI Systems Costimator JS
- Micro Estimating FabPlan
- Calendar and scheduling software
- Appointment scheduling software
- Calendar and scheduling software
- Workbrain Employee Scheduling
- Data base reporting software
- Tuppas software
- InetSoft software
- Data base user interface and query software
- Database software
- Microsoft Access
- RefWorks
- Data base user interface and query software
- Desktop publishing software
- Desktop publishing software
- Microsoft Publisher
- Document management software
- Records management systems
- Electronic mail software
- Email software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Enterprise resource planning ERP software
- Epicor Vantage
- Exact Software Macola ES
- Geac MPC Production
- Maynard PlanStaff Manager
- MicroStrategy Report Services
- PRONTO Xi
- SAP software
- SYSPRO software
- Graphics or photo imaging software
- Graphics software
- Human resources software
- Questek Humanis
- Internet browser software
- Internet browser software
- Web browser software
- Inventory management software
- Fish Bowl Inventory software
- Network conferencing software
- Microsoft Office SharePoint Server MOSS
- Office suite software
- Office suite software
- Microsoft Office software
- Presentation software
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Presentation software
- Procurement software
- Aestiva Purchase Order
- Project management software
- Microsoft Project
- Microsoft Team Foundation Server
- Spreadsheet software
- Microsoft Excel
- Spreadsheet software
- Time accounting software
- Work Technology WorkTech Time
- Workbrain Time and Attendance
- Video conferencing software
- Web conferencing software
- Web page creation and editing software
- RefWorks RefShare
- Adobe Systems Adobe Contribute
- Word processing software
- Microsoft Word
- Word processing software
- Corel WordPerfect software
- Transcription software
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Additional Resources
State employment offices provide information about job openings for secretaries. For information on the Certified Professional Secretary designation or the Certified Administrative Professional designation, contact:
International Association of Administrative Professionals
10502 NW Ambassador Dr.
P.O. Box 20404
Kansas City, MO 64195-0404
http://www.iaap-hq.org
Information on the Certified Legal Secretary Specialist designation can be obtained from:
Legal Secretaries International Inc.
8902 Sunnywood Dr.
Houston, TX 77088-3729
http://www.legalsecretaries.org
Information on the Accredited Legal Secretary (ALS) and the Professional Legal Secretary (PLS) certifications is available from:
NALS, Inc.
314 East 3rd St.
Suite 210
Tulsa, OK 74120
http://www.nals.org
The data sources for the information displayed here include: Virginia Career VIEW Research. (Using onet28)
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Knowledge
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
88.00 | Administrative | Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology. |
79.00 | English Language | Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar. |
61.50 | Customer and Personal Service | Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction. |
57.50 | Computers and Electronics | Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming. |
54.50 | Administration and Management | Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource allocation, human resources modeling, leadership technique, production methods, and coordination of people and resources. |
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Skills
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
75.00 | Reading Comprehension | Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents. |
75.00 | Active Listening | Giving full attention to what other people are saying, taking time to understand the points being made, asking questions as appropriate, and not interrupting at inappropriate times. |
72.00 | Speaking | Talking to others to convey information effectively. |
68.75 | Writing | Communicating effectively in writing as appropriate for the needs of the audience. |
68.75 | Service Orientation | Actively looking for ways to help people. |
59.50 | Coordination | Adjusting actions in relation to others' actions. |
56.25 | Critical Thinking | Using logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, or approaches to problems. |
56.25 | Social Perceptiveness | Being aware of others' reactions and understanding why they react as they do. |
56.25 | Time Management | Managing one's own time and the time of others. |
53.00 | Judgment and Decision Making | Considering the relative costs and benefits of potential actions to choose the most appropriate one. |
53.00 | Active Learning | Understanding the implications of new information for both current and future problem-solving and decision-making. |
53.00 | Monitoring | Monitoring/Assessing performance of yourself, other individuals, or organizations to make improvements or take corrective action. |
50.00 | Negotiation | Bringing others together and trying to reconcile differences. |
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Abilities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
75.00 | Oral Comprehension | The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences. |
75.00 | Written Comprehension | The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing. |
75.00 | Oral Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand. |
75.00 | Written Expression | The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand. |
75.00 | Speech Recognition | The ability to identify and understand the speech of another person. |
72.00 | Speech Clarity | The ability to speak clearly so others can understand you. |
72.00 | Near Vision | The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer). |
59.50 | Information Ordering | The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations). |
56.25 | Problem Sensitivity | The ability to tell when something is wrong or is likely to go wrong. It does not involve solving the problem, only recognizing that there is a problem. |
53.00 | Deductive Reasoning | The ability to apply general rules to specific problems to produce answers that make sense. |
53.00 | Category Flexibility | The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways. |
53.00 | Perceptual Speed | The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object. |
50.00 | Fluency of Ideas | The ability to come up with a number of ideas about a topic (the number of ideas is important, not their quality, correctness, or creativity). |
50.00 | Originality | The ability to come up with unusual or clever ideas about a given topic or situation, or to develop creative ways to solve a problem. |
50.00 | Inductive Reasoning | The ability to combine pieces of information to form general rules or conclusions (includes finding a relationship among seemingly unrelated events). |
50.00 | Flexibility of Closure | The ability to identify or detect a known pattern (a figure, object, word, or sound) that is hidden in other distracting material. |
50.00 | Selective Attention | The ability to concentrate on a task over a period of time without being distracted. |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: O*NET™. (Using onet28)
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Work Activities
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
91.00 | Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates | Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates by telephone, in written form, e-mail, or in person. |
88.25 | Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships | Developing constructive and cooperative working relationships with others, and maintaining them over time. |
87.50 | Getting Information | Observing, receiving, and otherwise obtaining information from all relevant sources. |
87.25 | Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work | Developing specific goals and plans to prioritize, organize, and accomplish your work. |
86.25 | Communicating with People Outside the Organization | Communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail. |
85.75 | Performing Administrative Activities | Performing day-to-day administrative tasks such as maintaining information files and processing paperwork. |
85.25 | Working with Computers | Using computers and computer systems (including hardware and software) to program, write software, set up functions, enter data, or process information. |
81.50 | Scheduling Work and Activities | Scheduling events, programs, and activities, as well as the work of others. |
78.75 | Updating and Using Relevant Knowledge | Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job. |
74.50 | Processing Information | Compiling, coding, categorizing, calculating, tabulating, auditing, or verifying information or data. |
73.00 | Identifying Objects, Actions, and Events | Identifying information by categorizing, estimating, recognizing differences or similarities, and detecting changes in circumstances or events. |
69.75 | Documenting/Recording Information | Entering, transcribing, recording, storing, or maintaining information in written or electronic/magnetic form. |
68.25 | Thinking Creatively | Developing, designing, or creating new applications, ideas, relationships, systems, or products, including artistic contributions. |
66.75 | Making Decisions and Solving Problems | Analyzing information and evaluating results to choose the best solution and solve problems. |
61.75 | Assisting and Caring for Others | Providing personal assistance, medical attention, emotional support, or other personal care to others such as coworkers, customers, or patients. |
60.50 | Monitoring Processes, Materials, or Surroundings | Monitoring and reviewing information from materials, events, or the environment, to detect or assess problems. |
59.00 | Evaluating Information to Determine Compliance with Standards | Using relevant information and individual judgment to determine whether events or processes comply with laws, regulations, or standards. |
55.00 | Coordinating the Work and Activities of Others | Getting members of a group to work together to accomplish tasks. |
53.50 | Resolving Conflicts and Negotiating with Others | Handling complaints, settling disputes, and resolving grievances and conflicts, or otherwise negotiating with others. |
52.50 | Performing for or Working Directly with the Public | Performing for people or dealing directly with the public. This includes serving customers in restaurants and stores, and receiving clients or guests. |
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Work Styles
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
89.75 | Attention to Detail | Job requires being careful about detail and thorough in completing work tasks. |
89.50 | Integrity | Job requires being honest and ethical. |
89.00 | Dependability | Job requires being reliable, responsible, and dependable, and fulfilling obligations. |
86.50 | Cooperation | Job requires being pleasant with others on the job and displaying a good-natured, cooperative attitude. |
79.00 | Adaptability/Flexibility | Job requires being open to change (positive or negative) and to considerable variety in the workplace. |
78.50 | Concern for Others | Job requires being sensitive to others' needs and feelings and being understanding and helpful on the job. |
77.75 | Self-Control | Job requires maintaining composure, keeping emotions in check, controlling anger, and avoiding aggressive behavior, even in very difficult situations. |
76.75 | Initiative | Job requires a willingness to take on responsibilities and challenges. |
76.00 | Independence | Job requires developing one's own ways of doing things, guiding oneself with little or no supervision, and depending on oneself to get things done. |
71.25 | Persistence | Job requires persistence in the face of obstacles. |
71.00 | Social Orientation | Job requires preferring to work with others rather than alone, and being personally connected with others on the job. |
70.75 | Stress Tolerance | Job requires accepting criticism and dealing calmly and effectively with high-stress situations. |
65.50 | Achievement/Effort | Job requires establishing and maintaining personally challenging achievement goals and exerting effort toward mastering tasks. |
63.00 | Leadership | Job requires a willingness to lead, take charge, and offer opinions and direction. |
63.00 | Analytical Thinking | Job requires analyzing information and using logic to address work-related issues and problems. |
62.75 | Innovation | Job requires creativity and alternative thinking to develop new ideas for and answers to work-related problems. |
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Work Values
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
72.17 | Relationships | Occupations that satisfy this work value allow employees to provide service to others and work with co-workers in a friendly non-competitive environment. Corresponding needs are Co-workers, Moral Values and Social Service. |
66.67 | Support | Occupations that satisfy this work value offer supportive management that stands behind employees. Corresponding needs are Company Policies, Supervision: Human Relations and Supervision: Technical. |
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Work Context
% | Subject | Description |
---|---|---|
99.80 | Telephone | How often do you have telephone conversations in this job? |
99.20 | Electronic Mail | How often do you use electronic mail in this job? |
94.00 | Contact With Others | How much does this job require the worker to be in contact with others (face-to-face, by telephone, or otherwise) in order to perform it? |
93.60 | Structured versus Unstructured Work | To what extent is this job structured for the worker, rather than allowing the worker to determine tasks, priorities, and goals? |
93.00 | Face-to-Face Discussions | How often do you have to have face-to-face discussions with individuals or teams in this job? |
92.00 | Work With Work Group or Team | How important is it to work with others in a group or team in this job? |
90.00 | Importance of Being Exact or Accurate | How important is being very exact or highly accurate in performing this job? |
88.40 | Spend Time Sitting | How much does this job require sitting? |
87.20 | Indoors, Environmentally Controlled | How often does this job require working indoors in environmentally controlled conditions? |
85.20 | Freedom to Make Decisions | How much decision making freedom, without supervision, does the job offer? |
84.60 | Coordinate or Lead Others | How important is it to coordinate or lead others in accomplishing work activities in this job? |
81.40 | Letters and Memos | How often does the job require written letters and memos? |
77.20 | Deal With External Customers | How important is it to work with external customers or the public in this job? |
77.20 | Time Pressure | How often does this job require the worker to meet strict deadlines? |
76.60 | Importance of Repeating Same Tasks | How important is repeating the same physical activities (e.g., key entry) or mental activities (e.g., checking entries in a ledger) over and over, without stopping, to performing this job? |
68.60 | Spend Time Using Your Hands to Handle, Control, or Feel Objects, Tools, or Controls | How much does this job require using your hands to handle, control, or feel objects, tools or controls? |
67.00 | Impact of Decisions on Co-workers or Company Results | What results do your decisions usually have on other people or the image or reputation or financial resources of your employer? |
65.60 | Spend Time Making Repetitive Motions | How much does this job require making repetitive motions? |
65.20 | Frequency of Decision Making | How frequently is the worker required to make decisions that affect other people, the financial resources, and/or the image and reputation of the organization? |
57.80 | Frequency of Conflict Situations | How often are there conflict situations the employee has to face in this job? |
53.60 | Sounds, Noise Levels Are Distracting or Uncomfortable | How often does this job require working exposed to sounds and noise levels that are distracting or uncomfortable? |
51.00 | Physical Proximity | To what extent does this job require the worker to perform job tasks in close physical proximity to other people? |
50.80 | Deal With Unpleasant or Angry People | How frequently does the worker have to deal with unpleasant, angry, or discourteous individuals as part of the job requirements? |
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Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed
- Overall Experience
- Previous work-related skill, knowledge, or experience is required for these occupations. For example, an electrician must have completed three or four years of apprenticeship or several years of vocational training, and often must have passed a licensing exam, in order to perform the job.
- Job Training
- Employees in these occupations usually need one or two years of training involving both on-the-job experience and informal training with experienced workers. A recognized apprenticeship program may be associated with these occupations.
- Examples
- These occupations usually involve using communication and organizational skills to coordinate, supervise, manage, or train others to accomplish goals. Examples include hydroelectric production managers, desktop publishers, electricians, agricultural technicians, barbers, court reporters and simultaneous captioners, and medical assistants.
- Education
- Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
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Earnings Benefits*
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
---|---|---|---|
United States | $43,520.00 | $65,980.00 | $81,930.00 |
Virginia | $45,520.00 | $72,320.00 | $85,920.00 |
Region | Entry Level | Median | Experienced |
Alexandria/Arlington | $67,440.48 | $87,113.07 | $101,251.10 |
Bay Consortium | $51,024.78 | $74,463.52 | $90,061.12 |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | $43,143.35 | $59,278.08 | $69,370.03 |
Central VA/Region2000 | $47,270.00 | $64,641.17 | $75,113.25 |
Crater Area | $43,882.95 | $55,720.59 | $64,001.77 |
Greater Peninsula | $47,407.38 | $62,339.75 | $75,599.77 |
Hampton Roads | $46,568.62 | $62,990.51 | $74,638.09 |
New River/Mt. Rogers | $42,932.63 | $58,569.47 | $69,251.24 |
Northern Virginia | $64,456.27 | $85,709.28 | $99,333.94 |
Piedmont Workforce | $50,060.01 | $68,110.86 | $83,236.39 |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | $40,987.58 | $55,343.56 | $68,178.00 |
Southwestern Virginia | $39,066.29 | $52,294.28 | $65,265.08 |
West Piedmont | $42,120.73 | $53,394.38 | $64,293.07 |
Western Virginia | $43,596.82 | $59,849.30 | $69,267.77 |
* Earnings Calculations:
Regional Earnings:
Entry = Annual mean of the lower 1/3 wage distribution;
Experienced = Annual mean of the upper 2/3 wage distribution.
National and State Earnings:
Entry = Annual 10th percentile wage;
Experienced = Annual 75th percentile wage.
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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Employment Projections
Current | Projected | % Change | |
---|---|---|---|
United States | 508,000 | 405,400 | -20.2% |
Virginia | 11,181 | 9,209 | -17.6% |
Region | Current* | Projected | % Change |
Alexandria/Arlington | 1,309 | 1,092 | -16.6% |
Bay Consortium | 314 | 268 | -14.6% |
Capital Region Workforce Partnership | 2,170 | 1,776 | -18.2% |
Central VA/Region2000 | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Crater Area | 135 | 109 | -19.3% |
Greater Peninsula | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Hampton Roads | No Data | No Data | No Data |
New River/Mt. Rogers | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Northern Virginia | 4,067 | 3,470 | -14.7% |
Piedmont Workforce | 388 | 325 | -16.2% |
Shenandoah Valley | No Data | No Data | No Data |
South Central | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Southwestern Virginia | No Data | No Data | No Data |
West Piedmont | No Data | No Data | No Data |
Western Virginia | 317 | 254 | -19.9% |
The data sources for the information displayed here include: US Department of Labor (BLS); Virginia Workforce Connection. (Using onet28)
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- Personnel
- Human Resources Specialist
- Administrative Specialist
- Yeoman
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Proficiency Ratings
These proficiencies are scored on a scale from 1 to 5 with 1 being not
important to the job and 5 being extremely important to the job.
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Titles
- Administrative Aide
- Administrative and Technical Specialist
- Administrative Assistant
- Administrative Associate
- Administrative Coordinator
- Administrative Liaison
- Administrative Office Assistant
- Administrative Office Specialist
- Administrative Officer
- Administrative Secretary
- Administrative Services Assistant
- Administrative Specialist
- Administrative Supervisor
- Administrative Support Specialist
- Clerical Specialist
- Community Youth Secretary
- Confidential Secretary
- Corporate Secretary
- Court Analyst
- Executive Administrative Assistant
- Executive Administrator
- Executive Assistant
- Executive Associate
- Executive Secretary
- Executive Staff Assistant
- Executive, Secretarial, Managerial, or Official Duties Assistant
- Financial Secretary
- Front Office Secretary
- Human Resources Administrative Assistant
- Management Assistant
- Office Administrator
- Office Assistant
- Office Automation Secretary (OA Secretary)
- Office Manager
- Personal Assistant
- Personal Secretary
- Program Support Assistant
- Program Support Specialist
- Project Assistant
- Protocol Officer
- Scheduler
- Secretarial or Administrative Duties Administrative Assistant
- Secretarial or Administrative Duties Clerical Administrative Assistant
- Secretary
- Secretary to the Vice President
- Staff Assistant
- Trust Manager Assistant
- Unit Secretary
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Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
Related Schools
- American National University
- Bryant & Stratton College-Virginia Beach
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