Occupation Atlasexecutive assistant
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/2a04a1df-a3b9-403e-a245-e7f93fdddd44
executive assistant
Executive assistants are advanced administrative professionals who work with top-level executives or in international facilities in various industries. They organise meetings, organise and maintain files, arrange travel, train staff members, communicate in other languages, and manage the day-to-day operations of the office.
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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 exact O*NET match, and the best-ranked match that has them. ESCO doesn't publish them directly.
Typically associated skills
Essential (25)
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.
- apply information security policies
- build business relationships
- build trust
- business communication
- communicate schedules to the people concerned
- company policies
- coordinate events
- disseminate messages to people
- draft corporate emails
- fix meetings
- liaise with managers
- maintain register of shareholders
- manage office facility systems
- manage personnel agenda
- observe confidentiality
- organise travel arrangements for staff
- perform business research
- perform clerical duties
- plan schedule
- process commissioned instructions
- translate keywords into full texts
- use different communication channels
- use office systems
- use spreadsheets software
- use word processing software
Optional (16)
- build international relations
- communicate with customers
- create import-export commercial documentation
- international import export regulations
- international tariffs
- liaise with board members
- manage payroll reports
- prepare financial statements
- prepare presentation material
- prepare tax returns forms
- revise drafts made by managers
- show intercultural awareness
- speak different languages
- support development of annual budget
- translate language concepts
- work in an international environment
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 25 essential skills. A plain count, not a hidden score.
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5 shared · 12 more of its ownprocess commissioned instructions, perform clerical duties, observe confidentiality, build business relationships
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5 shared · 23 more of its ownbuild trust, business communication, fix meetings, build business relationships
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