Secretarial Skills you Need for your CV and Career in Admin, Secretarial & Pa

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Secretarial Skills List in Admin, Secretarial & Pa

Below we have compiled a list of the most popular skills for a Secretarial role. We ranked the top skills based on the percentage of Secretarial job descriptions they appeared on. For example, 34% of Secretarial job descriptions contained administrative as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

administrative
34%
pa
28%
executive assistant
17%
secretarial support
17%
microsoft excel
17%
microsoft office
12%
secretary
12%
minute taking
12%
meetings
12%
team secretary
12%
records
12%
medical communications
12%
office manager
12%
hr
12%
admin
12%
business administration
6%
reporting
6%
communication skills
6%
project management
6%
administrative support
6%
diary management
6%
typing
6%
budgeting
6%
recruitment process
6%
outlook
6%
human resources
6%
office management
6%
office operations
6%
onboarding
6%
audio typing
6%
personal assistant
6%
clerical
6%
administrator
6%
consultants
6%
secretarial
6%
professional services
6%
legal
6%
compliance
6%
office administrator
6%
manager
6%
construction
6%
architect
6%
accounts
6%
money laundering
6%
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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.

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