Personal Assistants and Other Secretaries
Wages
New workers start around £5,302. Normal pay is £22,377 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £42,250.
Available jobs
In the past year there were 185,460 vacancies for this type of job
Projected job growth over the next 8 years
Related courses
People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.
What they do most days?
Translates documents and liaises with overseas clients and suppliers.
Arranges and attends meetings, takes minutes and prepares records of proceedings.
Uses appropriate software to produce correspondence, memoranda, reports, presentations and other documents from drafts, handwritten copy or by transcribing dictation.
Opens, sorts, distributes and files correspondence (in hard copy and electronic) and deals directly with routine correspondence.
Arranges appointments, keeps business diary, organises travel arrangements, makes reservations and organises a variety of functions.
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.
Hard Skills
Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.
Soft Skills
Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.
Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.