Personal Assistant
Provide administrative and secretarial support to senior staff or private employers.
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What's it like to be a Personal Assistant?
Personal Assistants help business executives, managers and private employers manage their day-to-day activities. This means handling schedules, reservations, correspondence, staffing, travel arrangements, note-taking, research and project management, among other tasks. For Personal Assistants who manage households, tasks can include scheduling home and car maintenance, carrying out errands and planning events.
Tasks and duties
- Sorting emails and messages.
- Screening calls.
- Prioritising tasks.
- Scheduling and making arrangements for meetings, appointments or travel.
- Liaising with clients, managers or suppliers on behalf of an employer.
- Attending meetings and taking notes.
- Maintaining records and files.
- Running errands.
Some Personal Assistants are on call and work outside of regular working hours. Personal Assistants need to be strong communicators, and many are proficient with computers, including scheduling, administration and communication software.
How to become a Personal Assistant
You can become a Personal Assistant without a formal qualification, however employers generally prefer candidates with a high school diploma or college degree and relevant training in office administration or secretarial work.
- Complete secondary education.
- Consider completing a bachelor degree in business administration.
- Gain experience as an office assistant, secretary or junior officer.
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Skills and experience employers are looking for
Having the right skills and experience can make you an in-demand applicant. Personal Assistant employers on Jobstreet are looking for job seekers with expertise in the following areas.
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Latest Personal Assistant reviews
Nov 2022
Reviewer's Qualification
Bachelor of Arts
Experience
10+ years
Organisation size
Medium (20-199 employees)
The good things
Learn to be flexible and accept add hoc challenges
The challenges
Guidance on some specific knowledge and to search for more information
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Nov 2022
Experience
1 – 4 years
Organisation size
Small (1-19 employees)
The good things
Guide the special child in classwork and homework.
The challenges
Have to work below the level of that particular child.
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