Occupation Atlasmanagement assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/8cce40c1-4479-47e7-b5fc-c976631d919f
management assistant
Management assistants perform varied types of jobs, usually under general supervision. They carry out administrative tasks and support managers to ensure the entire department functions smoothly.
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Job Zone
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Zone 3: Medium Preparation Needed
Medium preparation. Vocational training, related on-the-job experience, or an associate degree, with one to two years of training that combines experience and informal instruction.
Job Zone is O*NET's rating of how much education, experience and training an occupation typically needs — a property of the work, not of anyone doing it.
Occupational interest profile
CESConventional · Enterprising · Social — the three strongest interests, in order
- C Conventional6.41
- E Enterprising5.51
- S Social3.94
- I Investigative1.94
- A Artistic1.35
- R Realistic1.32
RIASEC (Holland) interests on O*NET's 0–7 scale: what the work draws on, not what any individual prefers. Hover a row for what each dimension means.
Job Zone and interest data are borrowed from Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants (43-6011.00): in the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, its close O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (18)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- build business relationships
- company policies
- coordinate events
- disseminate internal communications
- disseminate messages to people
- draft corporate emails
- fix meetings
- liaise with board members
- liaise with managers
- maintain internal communication systems
- perform business research
- perform clerical duties
- process commissioned instructions
- support managers
- use different communication channels
- use office systems
- use spreadsheets software
- write work-related reports
Optional (23)
- accounting department processes
- apply statistical analysis techniques
- assist visitors
- draft press releases
- financial department processes
- human resources department processes
- legal department processes
- maintain register of shareholders
- maintain statutory books
- manage personnel agenda
- management department processes
- marketing department processes
- operations department processes
- perform cost accounting activities
- personnel management
- public relations
- revise drafts made by managers
- sales department processes
- speak different languages
- track key performance indicators
- translate language concepts
- use free typing techniques
- write meeting reports
O*NET equivalents
From the official ESCO–O*NET crosswalk, strongest match first. A broader occupation takes in this one; a narrower one is a part of it.
Closest occupations
Compare any occupation →ESCO occupations that share the most of this occupation's 18 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
executive assistant
13 shared · 12 more of its owndraft corporate emails, disseminate messages to people, perform business research, process commissioned instructions
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administrative assistant
7 shared · 13 more of its owndraft corporate emails, disseminate internal communications, disseminate messages to people, perform business research
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7 shared · 15 more of its owndraft corporate emails, disseminate internal communications, disseminate messages to people, process commissioned instructions
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office clerk
7 shared · 19 more of its owndisseminate internal communications, disseminate messages to people, process commissioned instructions, use office systems
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marketing assistant
6 shared · 15 more of its owndraft corporate emails, perform business research, support managers, process commissioned instructions
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auditing clerk
5 shared · 12 more of its ownprocess commissioned instructions, perform clerical duties, build business relationships, write work-related reports
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investment clerk
5 shared · 14 more of its owndisseminate messages to people, use office systems, perform clerical duties, write work-related reports
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supply chain assistant
4 shared · 5 more of its ownperform business research, support managers, use office systems, use spreadsheets software
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