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, 38% of Personal Assistant job descriptions contained pa as a required skill.

Keywords / Skills

Popularity

pa
38%
personal assistant
19%
secretarial support
16%
secretarial
16%
communication skills
13%
microsoft office
13%
administrative
13%
admin
13%
legal
10%
diary management
10%
legal secretary
10%
administrator
10%
executive assistant
10%
architects
7%
law firm
7%
conveyancing
7%
property
7%
receptionist
7%
administrative support
7%
typing
7%
highly detailed
7%
records
7%
medical communications
7%
office manager
7%
french
4%
minutes
4%
secretary
4%
strong communication skills
4%
limited companies
4%
bookkeeping
4%
spanish
4%
building management
4%
meet deadlines
4%
eager learner
4%
teamwork
4%
information technology
4%
imanage
4%
computer literate
4%
team leader
4%
client services
4%
work alone
4%
urdu
4%
flexibility
4%
function
4%
filing
4%
events
4%
office administrator
4%
data
4%
property administrator
4%
social networking
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%
audio typing
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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