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what is the difference between an executive secretary, a secretary and an administrative assistant?
Asked by glitter
and plz specify the duties for each of the 3 positions and which one is better?
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Best Answer:
That's going to vary company to company; but largely they're all different terms for the same thing.
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The last two are the exact same with different titles. Receptionist works for that one too. The only difference with the first one is you work for a more important boss.
Answered by Older and Wiser
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It depends on the actual position. A lot of companies (and people) use the terms interchangeably, to make "a secretary" sound better. Some companies actually do make a distinction between them -- for example, an executive secretary might be a head secretary of a pool of company secretaries. Or, might be the exclusive secretary for a company exec. However, you don't know what a particular position is until you've researched what that particular position is defined as by the company.
Answered by Katie W
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the executive is top dog, secretary the executives assistant and administrative to do all the other mundane bits that the others dont want to do....
Answered by Keely H
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The size of the salary that the boss is willing to pay that goes with the eye-closing BS title!
Answered by Nikolas S
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