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Secretary 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.

Alternative Names

Administrative Assistant (Secretarial)

Secretarial Administrative Assistant

Stenography Secretary

Sales Secretary

School Secretary

Confidential Secretary

Office Assistant Secretary

Tasks

checking, formatting and transcribing correspondence, minutes and reports from dictation, electronic documents or written drafts to conform to office standards using the typewriter or other word processing equipment

checking, recording and distributing mail, correspondence and documents

using various computer software packages including spreadsheets to provide administrative support

dealing with incoming or outgoing mail

screening requests for meetings or appointments and helping to organise meetings

nising and supervising filing systems

screening and recording leave and other staff members‚Äô entitlements