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 ...

A decade ago, people could never have imagined there would be as many remote and offshore teams as there are today. Companies ...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Joni Hipsher (left), secretary in the School of Languages and Cultures, and Linda Foster, assistant in the Human Resources’ Organizational Effectiveness unit, recently completed Purdue's Clerical and ...

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 ...