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Administrative Careers, Jobs and Occupations

Administrative Jobs

Administrative category includes senior management, executive assistants, secretaries, office managers, secretarial staff, call centre personnel, data entry clerks, receptionists, collectors and clerks.

Administrative occupations are part of management occupations. Administrative employees work in private industry and government and have a wide range of responsibilities.

Majority of administrative employees work in service-providing industries, including all levels of government, health services, financial services, professional, scientific and technical services, and education. Most of the remaining workers work in manufacturing industries.

The formal education and experience of administrative employees varies as widely as the nature of their responsibilities.

As the reliance on technology continues to expand in offices, the role of the office professional has greatly evolved.

Office automation and organizational restructuring have led administrative employees, secretaries and administrative assistants to assume a wider range of new responsibilities once reserved for managerial and professional staff.

Many administrative employees, secretaries and administrative assistants now provide training and orientation for new staff, conduct research on the Internet, and operate and troubleshoot new office technologies.

Administrative employees, secretaries and administrative assistants are responsible for a variety of administrative and clerical duties necessary to run an organization efficiently.

Administrative employees serve as an information managers for an office, plan and schedule meetings and appointments, organize and maintain paper and electronic files, manage projects, conduct research, and provide information by using the telephone, postal mail, and e-mail. They also may handle travel arrangements.

Administrative Related Industries

All private and government industries.

The Guardian

AstraZeneca to cut 7300 jobs The Guardian The news came as Smith & Nephew, the artificial hip and knee maker, announced it was shedding 550 more administrative jobs. It plans to cut 7% of its 11000 employees worldwide over the next three years, including 220 jobs that have already gone. AstraZeneca to eliminate 7300 jobs by 2014The News Journal (blog) AstraZeneca Declines Most in 6 Months on Forecast: London MoverBusinessWeek all 625 news articles »

Bloomberg

AstraZeneca to Buy Back $4.5 Billion in Stock, Cut Jobs as Patents Expire Bloomberg AstraZeneca will cut about 3750 sales, general and administrative jobs, 2200 positions in research and development, and another 1350 in operations. The company took a restructuring charge of $261 million during the quarter. The drugmaker said it will ... Anglo-Swedish drug Co to cut 7300 jobsPress TV all 47 news articles »

Telstra to shed 200 jobs in latest cuts Sydney Morning Herald Telstra will shed 99 administrative jobs from its operations division, sending most of them offshore, while its Sensis unit will cull a similar number of positions. Of the total admin jobs lost, 60 of them will shift abroad and the remaining 39 ... and more »

State group pushing to revamp top county jobs Middletown Journal Duplicative administrative jobs such as human resources, information technology, public information officers could be eliminated if offices were consolidated, he said. But he quickly added that each county and region would have to run the numbers and ... and more »