Occupation Atlassecretary
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/5ac377d2-e1d0-4911-a299-b4ef2782a0ba
secretary
Secretaries perform a variety of administrative tasks to help keep an organisation run smoothly. They answer telephone calls, draft and send e-mails, maintain diaries, arrange appointments, take messages, file documents, organise and service meetings, and manage databases.
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Job Zone
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- 3
- 4
- 5
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 (22)
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.
- administer appointments
- communicate by telephone
- communicate schedules to the people concerned
- company policies
- disseminate internal communications
- disseminate messages to people
- draft corporate emails
- file documents
- fill out forms
- handle mail
- keep task records
- maintain internal communication systems
- manage digital documents
- manage personnel agenda
- monitor staff absences
- organise business documents
- organise facilities for office personnel
- perform office routine activities
- process commissioned instructions
- use microsoft office
- use spreadsheets software
- use word processing software
Optional (21)
- accounting techniques
- deliver correspondence
- demonstrate professional attitude to clients
- develop documentation in accordance with legal requirements
- education administration
- education law
- handle financial transactions
- handle petty cash
- issue sales invoices
- labour law
- liaise with typists
- manage accounts
- manage budgets
- manage needs for stationery items
- manage online content
- organise travel arrangements for staff
- place orders for printed paper goods
- prepare presentation material
- use office systems
- use personal organization software
- 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 22 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
administrative assistant
14 shared · 6 more of its ownorganise facilities for office personnel, draft corporate emails, file documents, fill out forms
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office clerk
13 shared · 13 more of its ownorganise facilities for office personnel, file documents, fill out forms, disseminate internal communications
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executive assistant
8 shared · 17 more of its owncommunicate schedules to the people concerned, manage personnel agenda, draft corporate emails, disseminate messages to people
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management assistant
7 shared · 11 more of its owndraft corporate emails, disseminate internal communications, disseminate messages to people, process commissioned instructions
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receptionist
6 shared · 7 more of its owndisseminate internal communications, disseminate messages to people, use microsoft office, administer appointments
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marketing assistant
6 shared · 15 more of its owncommunicate schedules to the people concerned, manage personnel agenda, draft corporate emails, organise business documents
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property assistant
5 shared · 15 more of its ownorganise business documents, process commissioned instructions, perform office routine activities, administer appointments
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file clerk
4 shared · 9 more of its ownfile documents, fill out forms, organise business documents, keep task records
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