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Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants
Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, and handling information requests, as well as performing routine administrative functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings.
- Sector: Government
- Preparation: Zone 3 — medium preparation needed
- O*NET code: 43-6011.00
What you'll actually do
The activities O*NET rates highest for this occupation, most important first. Numbers are out of 100.
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Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
central to the job — rated 91/100 for importance.
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Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
central to the job — rated 88/100 for importance.
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Getting Information
central to the job — rated 88/100 for importance.
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Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
central to the job — rated 87/100 for importance.
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Communicating with People Outside the Organization
central to the job — rated 86/100 for importance.
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Performing Administrative Activities
central to the job — rated 86/100 for importance.
Provide high-level administrative support by conducting research, preparing statistical reports, and handling information requests, as well as performing routine administrative functions such as preparing correspondence, receiving visitors, arranging conference calls, and scheduling meetings. May also train and supervise lower-level clerical staff.
What it takes
Two numbers per line: the level the work expects, and how important it is to doing the job well. Both are O*NET ratings, already on a 0–100 scale.
Skills
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Active Listening
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Reading Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Speaking
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
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Service Orientation
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
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Writing
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
Knowledge
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Administrative
Needed at expert level (86/100), and rated 88/100 for importance.
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English Language
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 79/100 for importance.
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Customer and Personal Service
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 62/100 for importance.
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Computers and Electronics
Needed at a solid working level (54/100), and rated 58/100 for importance.
Abilities
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Speech Recognition
Needed at a solid working level (59/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Oral Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Oral Expression
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Written Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (57/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
How people get in
O*NET places this occupation in Zone 3 — medium preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.
Education
Vocational training, an associate degree, or equivalent on-the-job experience.
Experience
One to two years of related experience is typical.
Training
Employers expect you to arrive with the core skill already.
How the work tends to run
Each line below is read off a single O*NET activity rating for this occupation — named, so you can disagree with it.
- Most of the day happens at a screen.From “Working with Computers”
- Long-running relationships carry the work; the same people come back.From “Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships”
How FlightWay scores your fit against this
No black box. Here is the whole method, factor by factor.
- 1. You answer a short quiz
- Your answers build a profile across the same 161 O*NET dimensions this page is describing — skills, knowledge, abilities and work activities. Same axes, so the comparison is like-for-like.
- 2. We correlate the two profiles
- Fit is a mean-centered cosine — a correlation between the SHAPE of your profile and the shape of Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants. Centering matters: raw similarity between any two occupations sits at 0.70–0.85 because all work shares a common profile, so without it every career would look like a match.
- 3. The number you see is personality fit only
- "Would I want this work" and "am I ready for this work" are different questions, and averaging them answers neither. So readiness — what your résumé, coursework and projects prove — is scored separately and shown next to fit, never blended into it.
- 4. Every factor is visible
- You can open any match and see which dimensions pushed it up and which pulled it down. If you disagree with the number, you can see exactly where it came from.
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