Executive Assistant
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As an executive assistant, your job is to provide advanced administrative support and to reduce the workload for a high level executive such as the CEO or a senior executive director in a business or organisation. Your services may also be utilised by politicians, celebrities, and other prominent public figures, where you often find yourself managing both their professional and private lives. Your work may include both drafting and reviewing letters and reports, conducting research, preparing statistical reports or correspondence, diary management, arranging conference calls or meetings, managing travel bookings and itineraries. You may find yourself screening away overzealous colleagues, running personal errands or otherwise helping manage your busy employer’s personal life.
Salary p/a
35k - 80k
Qualifications
Year 12 Graduate
Intensity
Sitting
Demand
Stable
Travel
Low
Conditions
Indoor
Weekly Hours
40-50
Pros
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Vital and prestigious role within a company
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Well paid and rewarded
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Good employment opportunities
Cons
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Stressful, pressure position
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Highly-strung executives
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Executive turnover
The Bottom Line
Executive assistants are interested in high level relationship management, project management, problem solving and the challenge of multitasking. It’s an office job with long hours sitting in front of a computer, fending off intruders, managing a complex and in-demand individual. The work can be engaging and intellectually challenging, so if the pressure and necessary experience doesn’t put you off, then this important occupation might be for you.
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