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Administrative Assistant Skills for 2023
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What does an administrative assistant do?
Administrative assistants are responsible for clerical tasks around an office, including answering phone calls, managing schedules, organizing documents and files, and scheduling employee travel.
They are crucial to daily operations though day-to-day roles may vary greatly based on the needs of each company. Administrative assistants are also referred to as office administrators, secretaries, and office clerks, among other titles.
administrative assistant Skills Summary
Successful administrative assistants have hard skills closely related to organization and specific software. They also possess soft skills related to attention to detail and communication.
The best administrative assistants have skills like administrative support, correspondence, customer service, scheduling, Microsoft Office, filing, and policies on their LinkedIn profiles and resumes. Full report below.
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Hard Skills
Hard skills are typically learned through education or work experience, such as proficiency with specific tools,
software or specialized processes.
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Top administrative assistant Skills Overall
The most common hard skills found across administrative assistant job descriptions.
High Impact
Hard to Find administrative assistant Skills
Hard skills frequently found in the job descriptions that are less likely to
appear in administrative assistant LinkedIn profiles or resumes.
Low Impact
Easy to Find administrative assistant Skills
Hard skills that are most likely to appear in both the job descriptions and
LinkedIn profiles or resumes.
Soft Skills
Soft skills are harder-to-measure interpersonal “people” skills important for leadership or collaborative
environments.
attention to detail
proficient
written communication
vision
communications
coordination
work independently
organized
flexible
communication skills
About this report
Jobscan helps job seekers tailor their resumes and LinkedIn profiles for each job opportunity through personalized skill and keyword matching, among other checks.
Our data science team analyzed over 100,000 unique Jobscan user resumes in addition to 8 million job postings from last year to identify the most common keywords and highest impact skills for Administrative Assistants.
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