How do they match: Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants

  • Personal Assistant
  • Personal Secretary

  • Conduct research, compile data, and prepare papers for consideration and presentation by executives, committees, and boards of directors.
  • Coordinate and direct office services, such as records, departmental finances, budget preparation, personnel issues, and housekeeping, to aid executives.
  • Perform general office duties, such as ordering supplies, maintaining records management database systems, and performing basic bookkeeping work.
  • Prepare invoices, reports, memos, letters, financial statements, and other documents, using word processing, spreadsheet, database, or presentation software.

  • Compile data or documentation.
  • Supervise clerical or administrative personnel.
  • Train personnel.