£18,720
Average salary at age 20
£33,800
Average Salary
41
Average hours per week
Description
Personal assistants and other secretaries provide administrative and secretarial support to individuals, departmental or management teams within organisations.Main Tasks
- Acts as a first point of contact for a manager or team with colleagues and people from outside organisations, fields telephone enquiries, takes and passes on messages;
- Arranges appointments, keeps business diary, organises travel arrangements, makes reservations and organises a variety of functions;
- Opens, sorts, distributes and files correspondence (in hard copy and electronic) and deals directly with routine correspondence;
- Uses appropriate software to produce correspondence, memoranda, reports, presentations and other documents from drafts, handwritten copy or by transcribing dictation;
- Arranges and attends meetings, takes minutes and prepares records of proceedings;
- Translates documents and liaises with overseas clients and suppliers.
Qualifications
There are no minimum academic requirements, although entry to professional secretarial courses typically requires GCSEs/S grades. NVQs/SVQs are available in Administration at Levels 2, 3 and 4.What Personal assistants and other secretaries studied in higher education
| Occupation | Percentage Value |
|---|---|
| (C9) Others in biological sciences | 1 |
| (L4) Social policy | 1 |
| (L7) Human & social geography | 2 |
| (W2) Design studies | 4 |
| (L3) Sociology | 2 |
| (C1) Biology | 2 |
| (C8) Psychology | 7 |
| (W1) Fine art | 2 |
| (V3) History by topic | 2 |
| (F7) Science of aquatic & terrestrial environments | 1 |
| (W3) Music | 1 |
| (F6) Geology | 1 |
| (F8) Physical geographical sciences | 1 |
| (W8) Imaginative writing | 1 |
| (V4) Archaeology | 1 |
| (R9) Others in European languages, literature & related subjects | 1 |
| (W6) Cinematics & photography | 2 |
| (Q3) English studies | 6 |
| (L2) Politics | 6 |
| (H2) Civil engineering | 1 |
| (R4) Spanish studies | 1 |
| (R1) French studies | 1 |
| (N5) Marketing | 2 |
| (W4) Drama | 3 |
| (M1) Law by area | 4 |
| (M2) Law by topic | 4 |
| (N8) Hospitality, leisure, sport, tourism & transport | 3 |
| (B9) Others in subjects allied to medicine | 1 |
| (P5) Journalism | 1 |
| (F4) Forensic & archaeological sciences | 1 |
| (V5) Philosophy | 1 |
| (L1) Economics | 1 |
| (T7) American studies | 1 |
| (N1) Business studies | 6 |
| (X3) Academic studies in education | 2 |
| (L5) Social work | 1 |
| (V6) Theology & religious studies | 1 |
| (X1) Training teachers | 1 |
| (C6) Sport & exercise science | 2 |
| (P3) Media studies | 4 |
| (N2) Management studies | 3 |
| (V1) History by period | 4 |
| (N3) Finance | 1 |
| (Q8) Classical studies | 1 |
| (L6) Anthropology | 1 |
UK Prospects
192500
Workforce Size
18.66%
Predicted decline 2024 - 2027
16699
Predicted Replacement 2024 - 2027
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