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Administrative Assistant/Secretary
As a Secretary, you perform a wide variety of duties that help teams, departments, or units run efficiently. In today’s technology-driven offices, your job is likely to involve a wide range of responsibilities, such as performing clerical tasks, managing databases, or creating presentations, reports, and spreadsheets. Your work may also be personal or interactive in nature requiring tact and communication skills.
At Baker College you can choose the level of expertise you would like to achieve. You can learn basic office skills, including common office software applications, or you can prepare yourself for a wider range of opportunities by learning the business and technological skills needed to manage an entire office. By combining classes and electives taught by working professionals with our internship/cooperative education opportunities, you will be prepared with all the skills you need to be a success.
– Niki Nichols Baker GraduateThere are certain things that you can learn by book, but there are other things that you just have to learn by experience. By having somebody who has already done it and had the experience, it’s easier…
Career Facts
- The average annual salary for a Secretary is about $29,200. For Executive Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, the average is about $40,700.
- Employment for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants is expected to increase 9 percent by 2016, which is about average.
- Opportunities should be best for applicants with extensive knowledge of software applications.
- About 9 out of 10 Secretaries and Administrative Assistants are employed in industries that provide services, including Education, Health Care, Government, and Retail trade. Some work part-time or in temporary positions. Others work half-time by sharing their job with another individual.
- Secretaries and Administrative Assistants generally advance by being promoted to other administrative positions with more responsibilities.
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