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Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
Perform routine administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, or providing information to callers.
- Sector: Healthcare
- Preparation: Zone 2 — some preparation needed
- O*NET code: 43-6014.00
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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Working with Computers
a major part of the work — rated 85/100 for importance.
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Communicating with Supervisors, Peers, or Subordinates
a major part of the work — rated 79/100 for importance.
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Getting Information
a major part of the work — rated 79/100 for importance.
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Performing Administrative Activities
a major part of the work — rated 77/100 for importance.
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Organizing, Planning, and Prioritizing Work
a regular part of the work — rated 69/100 for importance.
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Establishing and Maintaining Interpersonal Relationships
a regular part of the work — rated 69/100 for importance.
Perform routine administrative functions such as drafting correspondence, scheduling appointments, organizing and maintaining paper and electronic files, or providing information to callers.
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 (54/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Speaking
Needed at a solid working level (52/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Reading Comprehension
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 72/100 for importance.
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Writing
Needed at a solid working level (50/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
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Service Orientation
Needed at a basic working level (45/100), and rated 63/100 for importance.
Knowledge
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Administrative
Needed at expert level (83/100), and rated 88/100 for importance.
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English Language
Needed at a high level (61/100), and rated 82/100 for importance.
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Computers and Electronics
Needed at a high level (65/100), and rated 71/100 for importance.
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Customer and Personal Service
Needed at a high level (62/100), and rated 69/100 for importance.
Abilities
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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 (55/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
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Written Expression
Needed at a solid working level (55/100), and rated 75/100 for importance.
How people get in
O*NET places this occupation in Zone 2 — some preparation needed. That is a statement about what employers typically require, not a rule about you.
Education
A high-school diploma is the usual starting point.
Experience
Some prior work experience helps but is rarely required.
Training
Expect a few months to a year of on-the-job training.
What it pays
These are typical healthcare compensation bands by employer tier — sector-level figures, not a measured salary for Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive specifically. Treat them as the shape of the market, then check a real posting for the number.
Mayo Clinic · Johns Hopkins
$130k – $300k
Regional Health Systems
$100k – $180k
Clinics & Private Practice
$80k – $130k
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”
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 Secretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive. 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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