Personal Assistant Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Training

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Personal Assistant Skills List in Training

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Personal Assistant role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Personal Assistant job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 37% of Personal Assistant job descriptions contained pa as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

pa
37%
personal assistant
19%
secretarial support
16%
secretarial
16%
admin
13%
administrative
13%
microsoft office
13%
communication skills
13%
diary management
10%
legal secretary
10%
legal
10%
executive assistant
10%
administrator
10%
conveyancing
7%
highly detailed
7%
typing
7%
administrative support
7%
audio typing
7%
law firm
7%
property
7%
receptionist
7%
architects
7%
office manager
7%
bookkeeping
7%
medical communications
7%
records
7%
team leader
4%
building management
4%
flexibility
4%
minutes
4%
work alone
4%
limited companies
4%
spanish
4%
french
4%
meet deadlines
4%
eager learner
4%
teamwork
4%
information technology
4%
imanage
4%
filing
4%
data
4%
client services
4%
function
4%
events
4%
urdu
4%
office administrator
4%
secretary
4%
strong communication skills
4%
social networking
4%
payroll
4%
computer literate
4%
customer care
4%
clerical
4%
administration
4%
company secretary
4%
executive pa
4%
executive personal assistant
4%
personal secretary
4%
birmingham
4%
ea
4%
team administrator
4%
part time
4%
consultants
4%
smiling
4%
young people
4%
office assistant
4%
collaboration
4%
real estate
4%
driver
4%
organisational skills
4%
property administrator
4%
minute taking
4%
employment law
4%
litigation
4%
litigation secretary
4%
answering telephones
4%
business operations
4%
compliance
4%
contracts
4%
agile
4%

While these keywords are a good start, remember that every job is different. Instead of including all these keywords on your CV, identify the keywords most relevant to the job you're applying to and include those. For the best chance of success use our CV keyword scanner tool to help with this.

Including the right keywords in your CV will help you get past Applicant Tracking Systems (ATS) and win more job interviews from employers and recruiters.


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