Executive assistant
Code 3343.3
Executive assistants are advanced administrative professionals who work with top-level executives or in international facilities in various industries. They organise meetings, organise and maintain files, arrange travel, train staff members, communicate in other languages, and manage the day-to-day operations of the office.
Essential skills
Knowledge
- company policies
Skills and competences
- apply information security policies
- communicate schedules to the people concerned
- liaise with managers
- translate keywords into full texts
- coordinate events
- organise travel arrangements for staff
- build business relationships
- manage personnel agenda
- manage office facility systems
- maintain register of shareholders
- fix meetings
- perform business research
- perform clerical duties
- draft corporate emails
- process commissioned instructions
- disseminate messages to people
- use different communication channels
- use word processing software
- use spreadsheets software
Transversal competences
- observe confidentiality
- use office systems
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