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 ...

The 19th reports on women administrative assistants adapting to AI, with 86% concerned about job loss. They are embracing ...

The administrative assistant controls the executive’s calendar, for the most part. In 2005, I was in the midst of trying to get an executive’s support (and budget) for an important project, and I ...

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 ...

I recently landed a final-round interview for a dream job: senior research coordinator. Actually, I hadn’t dreamed about it, but it offered a way out of my current role—and it felt like a dream ...

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 ...

It happens to the best of us — in all fields and industries — and administrative assistants aren’t immune. You spend a significant amount of time in a certain job or position, and while once it ...

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, ...

Behind every good boss is usually a really great secretary or assistant. On Administrative Professionals Day, we honor those hardworking women and men who manage offices and make sure companies run ...