During the course of the traineeship, trainees must complete coursework in mandatory and elective areas to demonstrate mastery of knowlegde and skills in the Adminisrative Assistant position. As an ...

While administrative assistants have a job description, that description doesn't begin to describe the ways office assistants exercise power. A savvy administrative assistant with strong personal ...

Administrative and human resources assistants support the work of office departments and, in some cases, specific managers or executives. Sometimes called secretaries, assistants perform clerical ...

Joni Hipsher (left), secretary in the School of Languages and Cultures, and Linda Foster, assistant in the Human Resources’ Organizational Effectiveness unit, recently completed Purdue's Clerical and ...

The healthcare industry is renowned for its dynamic nature, constantly evolving to meet the diverse needs of patients and adapt to emerging technologies. In this ever-changing landscape, the role of ...

The role an academic administrative assistant is changing. This work is morphing from a support role to a creative collaborative profession. The title of “administrative” and “assistant” doubly fails ...

Later this month I’m scheduled to deliver a keynote to an internal company conference for administrative professionals. The topic is culture for creativity. My “standard” talks typically focus on ...

Administration assistants are the indispensable and capable all-rounders that makes the business tick. In a recent book called Linchpin, Seth Godin asks the aspirational reader one simple question – ...

Academic Administrative Assistants (AAA’s) provide support to assigned departments and programs; the nature of their work varies according to the needs of those departments and programs. Academic ...

Nobody gets a PhD with the goal of spending most days in meetings. The higher up that you go in higher ed administration, however, the more time you spend in meetings. If you are a dean, director, VP, ...