From administrative assistant to secretary
14 of the 22 essential skills of a secretary are already essential for a administrative assistant — about 64% of the job, before you learn anything new. It is the closest move from administrative assistant in the whole taxonomy.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 14
- skills carry over
- 8
- would be new
- 64%
- of the target job covered
- 22
- essential skills of a secretary
What a secretary does
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.
What carries over
14 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- company policies
- disseminate internal communications
- disseminate messages to people
- draft corporate emails
- file documents
- fill out forms
- handle mail
- keep task records
- manage digital documents
- organise business documents
- organise facilities for office personnel
- perform office routine activities
- use microsoft office
- use spreadsheets software
What would be new
8 skillsEssential for a secretary and not for a administrative assistant. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
Other moves from administrative assistant
1 roles- office clerk12 skills in common
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How far are you from being a secretary?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.