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Job (role)

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 category that designates an individual who provides various kinds of administrative support to people and groups in business

Business

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Kinds of Administrative Assistants

The term "administrative assistant" can be a formal title, or it can be a general description of an employee's function in an office. Depending on the kind of work a person does, there are many variations of job descriptions that fall under this role:

• Employees with the title of Administrative Assistant generally provide support to specific departments or teams in a company (such as Human Resources
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  , Accounting, Development
  Business development
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  , Sales and Marketing
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   or Information Technology
  Information technology
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  ). In small companies, "admins" can provide support for everyone in the office.
• Secretaries or Executive Assistants provide support to individual (usually high-ranking) company executives or small groups of executives. Their responsibilities often include handling more private or sensitive corporate and personal information than other employees.
• The main job of a Receptionist
  Receptionist
  A receptionist is an employee taking an office/administrative support position. The work is usually performed in a waiting area such as a lobby or front office desk of an organization or business...
  
   is to answer the telephone and take messages for an office or a department, and also to greet visitors to the office.
• Project Assistants provide support to specific projects in a company (e.g. activities that have a defined goal and end-point).
• Personal Assistant
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  s provide support for a specific individual, and their responsibilities often include taking care of non-office related tasks, such as running personal errands.
• Clerks often provide office support that is confined to one or two specific tasks, such as filing or data entry
  Data entry clerk
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• Accounting Assistants provide support to a company's finance
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  , Accounts Payable
  Accounts payable
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   and Accounts Receivable
  Accounts receivable
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   departments. Employees in these positions tend to have more specialized knowledge of accounting and finance.
• Production Assistant
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   is a term used to describe people who provide support for people and groups in film and television production.

Duties of Administrative Assistants

Administrative Assistants perform many basic functions in offices, including:

• Assisting with all aspects of administrative management, directory maintenance, logistics, equipment inventory and storage
• Managing inventory of assets and supplies, monitoring critical level of stocks, sourcing for suppliers and submitting invoice
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• Coordinating between departments and operating units in resolving day-to-day administrative and operational problems
• Scheduling and coordinating meetings, interviews, events and other similar activities
• Sending out and receiving mail and packages
• Preparing business correspondence (often using word processing, spreadsheet, and presentation computer software)
• Sending faxes
• Managing Files
• Research
• Ordering and receiving food deliveries
• Performing multifaceted general office support