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Secretaries and Administrative Assistants Can Help You Clear the "Stuff" of Business So You Can DO Your Business!

Many professionals and offices in general have the stuff they were trained to do -- like dentists, doctors, lawyers, plumbers, accountants, writers, mechanics, scientists, engineers, and even government investigators --but we're swamped when it comes to the "administrative" stuff--the paperwork. The scheduling. The keeping track of things. This is where secretaries and administrative assistants come in. They can help you wade through all that stuff. In fact, they can clear that stuff for you so that you can focus entirely on what you really like doing with your business--namely, your profession.

But, if you LIKE doing the paperwork and scheduling and organizing and arranging... then perhaps a job as a Secretary or Administrative Assistant (either onsite or "virtual") may be the perfect job for you.

This Squidoo lens provides more information and resources on this type of job and the benefits it can provide.

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It's More than Just Paperwork and Receiving and Directing Guests!

Other tasks include scheduling, supervision, collecting receipts, and other work! (Called "Duties as Assigned")

Typing and word processing are one of the tasks an assistant can do for you.

Paperwork. Typing. Collecting receipts. Filing. Scheduling. Logging incoming and outgoing materials. Then, there's receiving, announcing, and directing guests. Answering phones and emails. And there may be other duties as well.

My daughter started work as a clerk at a flight training school. It involved mostly keeping the schedules for the pilots, the planes, the maintenance, the fueling, the students, the guests (who rented aircraft), and keeping the office neat and maintained. It also involved answering phones, emails, and writing up occasional letters for the boss. Some of the surprises that came along with the job were that, as a small-business employee, she had to do various duties one might not usually expect from a clerk, secretary, or administrative assistant. These included helping the guests and pilots and mechanics move aircraft (pushing or pulling them into place either in the hangar or on the ramp) and she managed to go up in a few of the planes (providing balancing weight or extra passenger space) for the biplanes, acrobatic planes, fighter jet, and corporate jets. This is why my daughter enjoys her job as (now) an operations manager for the flight training school (she has worked her way up to her position by starting as a clerk).

When I worked at a university marine laboratory, our secretaries not only answered the marine lab's phones, handled the incoming and outgoing mail, and kept the lab's coffee pots constantly perking, but they spent much of their day typing scientific reports on their IBM-Selectric Typewriters. These reports eventually became part of the marine laboratory's "technical reports" that we would deliver to various environmental and grant-giving agencies. And what is really nice is that at our laboratory, we always acknowledged the help we received from our secretaries and our typists in our technical reports and other documents coming out of the lab and being published. The secretaries became part of the legacy of the marine laboratory's work--and that's a nice honor to have!

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

Secretaries and Administrative Assistants Can Help You Clear the "Stuff" of Business So You Can *DO* Your Business!

Contents at a Glance

Contents at a Glance

Decorative Stuff for Secretaries and Admin Assistants!

It's More than Just Paperwork and Receiving and Directing Guests!

Other tasks include scheduling, supervision, collecting receipts, and other work! (Called "Duties as Assigned")

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