ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE TECHNOLOGY
EXECUTIVE ADMINISTRATIVE ASSISTANT
Administrative Office Technology: Executive Administrative Assistant
From the 1920s-1960s the women who were called “secretaries” were severely stigmatized. The most common misconception about secretaries was that they were pretentious office workers who were only out to find a husband. According to an article on National Public Radio’s website, “For decades secretary positions were the only ones that women could hold in many workplaces. The AMC hit TV show Mad Men has fed nostalgia for a time when secretaries typed letters and kept the boss “happy”. Those duties and the women who filled them have come a long way since then!” (Radio) Lynn Peril, author of Swimming in the Steno pool was interviewed by NPR and says at first the title “secretary” inspired women to become a private secretary or an executive administrative secretary. It made them want to move up to the top of the office hierarchy. They wanted to move out of the steno pool and stop being a stenographer who just went in and took dictation from their bosses. They yearned to be more than just a typist; they wanted to become a secretary. It was really something that many women in those days aspired to become.” Peril also adds that “at that the same time, there was this pop culture tradition. The term “office wife” goes back to the 1920s. This evolution of the idea that a secretary was a hot to trot, pencil pushing woman who is there to have an affair with the boss and meet a husband, didn’t give the image of being a secretary a very positive one. It wasn’t until the 1970s when women started striking out for their rights as equals in the work place that they asked to be called “administrative assistan...
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...tive or executive administrative assistant is crucial for any work place. You save your boss valuable time and you become an asset to the company you work for. The results of hard work, dedication, and training will pay off in the long run. Being an Executive Administrative Assistant is a very lucrative career that is on the rise! (James Stroman) (Maupin) (Systems)
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An administrative assistant will work under the Chief of Staff to ensure that all needs of the team are met and accounted for. An administrative assistant will aid the Chief of Staff on assignments that may vary from looking over e-mails or running errands for the company.
Medical Administrative Assistants have numerous of duties in an office setting. Medical Administrative Assistants can get a job in a doctor office or a hospital. Medical Assistants work more in the front of office and hospital assisting patients and checking them in. By knowing some Medical Assistants I know some of their duties are: scheduling patients, greeting patients, doing paper work, handling insurance problems or statements, and also supervising entry. Medical Administrative Assistants may be asked to do take the patient height or blood pressure. Medical assistants are sometime asked to buy the medical equipment needed in the office. When needed they may also work as the office manager. They conduct the doctor's schedule and type letters and bills (Occupational Outlook Handbook). Accounting has an enormous role in this field such as handling the insurance procedures and billing statements. Billing statements are responsibilities that a patient has gathered overtime. Having a great attitude is very much needed as a medical assistant because that job is in the customer service field. It is the medical assistant’s duty to take care of the fees in a medical facility therefore, knowing how to do accounting is a must know. Some of the duties involve collecting payments from the patient, tracking records of all the payments collected and filing forms out to take action against patients that have not made payments in a long time or just none at all that is why accounting is very important in this job. Accounting is recording financial relations, storing, organizing, retrieving, and presenting information in numerous reports which all goes back to one of the duties of a medical administration assis...
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...erapist assistant program is a full-time commitment. I choose this career because it suits me. I love to help others, make them happy and make them well again.
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Administration role has to be learnt for effectiveness which implies: Organization, Controlling, Commanding, Planning and forecasting are all achieved through study.
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