Management Assistant for Office Management

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Vocation Description

Management assistants for office management can work in all companies in business, industry, and trade, in administration, organizations, and other institutions. Your responsibilities include office administrative functions as well assistant and secretarial duties.

Since you can be employed in various sectors, you need to possess knoweldge about business processes, in order to learn the specifics of a particular field of work.

Daily interactions with customers, vendors, authorities, and colleagues require you to draft and create tailored announcements and relay them either verbally or in writing. To complete these tasks, you need verbal skills, experience using various PC application programs, and the ability to use modern means of communication (fax, email, internet).

Your responsibilities include organizing your own work, and coordinating and supervising appointments for other employees. This includes the organizational preparation and follow-up for meetings, presentations, and fairs.

In addition to the statistical analysis of data, you will be required to interpret data. Thus, you will need the required background knowledge or will need to obtain it.

 

Continuing Education/Courses of Study

• State-certified specialist in business administration (FH Aachen)
• Bachelor's degree in Business Studies (FH Aachen)
• Part-time Bachelor's degree in Business Administration (FOM University of Applied Sciences)
• Distance degree program in business administration/economics