Administrative Assistant

Administrative assistants play an important role in organizing, managing, and keeping an office running. Most administrative assistants are responsible for clerical and organizational tasks like file organizing, scheduling appointments, assisting other staff members, and drafting correspondences or messages.

The core duties and responsibilities of an Administrative Assistant revolve around supporting others. Their job duties can vary widely, not just from job to job, but from day to day at the same job. On any given day, they may perform a variety of tasks, such as:

Answer phones and greet visitors

Schedule appointments and maintain calendars

Schedule and coordinate staff and other meetings

Collate and distribute mail

Prepare communications, such as memos, emails, invoices, reports and other correspondence

Write and edit documents from letters to reports and instructional documents

Create and maintain filing systems, both electronic and physical

Manage accounts and perform bookkeeping