Administrative Roles Career Guide and Counseling

Question: What are the common health, safety and security hazards that affect people in administrative roles? And how can you identify these?

Answer: These hazards are primarily ergonomic, for a strictly office-based environment. Indoor air quality issues can also be important and affect worker comfort or productivity. You do have to look beyond the immediate four walls that surround you, though. You don't specify what industry this might be - many industrial facilities have a certain percentage of their space dedicated to administration, often physically attached or even distributed throughout a factory or plant. For example: petroleum refineries usually have an 'administration center' where things like billing, employee benefits administration or PR. There are usually a lot of smaller office structures strewn through the facility, where direct management or easy access is needed. So, if you are talking about admin in a facility like that, you will need to account for the possible H&S considerations that affect the unit or the facility at large, such as toxic vapors, noise, risk of explosion, etc. Even if your own facility has no production or other manufacturing to create H&S issues, you will need to be aware of what your neighbors do. Review of Community Right-to-Know legislation and Emergency Planning Commissions can assist you in determining what hazards might exist to people on your site that originate from offsite sources. Lastly, security is largely a question of risk tolerance. A jewelry factory that handles large quantities of small valuable merchandise will have different needs for security than a pesticide plant. Remember to consider Physical (Locks, fences, gates, etc.) as well as Procedural (Unaccompanied Guests, internal specific authorizations and background checks) when considering security overall. The amount of security you need is primarily dependent on the value of what you do.

Question: What administrative roles/positions could a doctoral school psychologist fill in a school system? i.e Prinicipal, assistant prinicipal, etc. Truth please. Whic

Answer: You can be the director of special education/pupil services or go on to get your degree in educational leadership and become a principal or assistant principal.

Question: why are human resources changing from an administrative role to strategic roles? I need sources from the last three years. Can't find any good websites for research.

Answer: Sorry I do not have any good sources other than my 30 years in a manufacturing environment..... The HR function is key to the achievement of the company's strategy. Any sound long term strategic plan should include an HR plan that provides detail as to ... a. how the workforce may be changing in demographics b. what skills and competencies are needed to ensure achievement of the co.'s strategy c. what training and education programs will be needed in the long term d. assuming sales growth is a part of the co.'s strategic plan, what recruiting techniques will be used. What universities provide the best sources of candidates. e. leadership development programs to provide a "pipeline" of top talent as the co. grows f. how the co. will adapt to doing business in other regions of the world Maybe try Harvard Business Review. Michigan State Univ also has a good HR program. This is fairly basic stuff.

Question: With a college degree, will taking an administrative assistant position be damaging to my career? At 22, I have graduated and am about to take on a position as an administrative assistant with a company with great room for advancement. In my current organization, I've noticed that all the people with this title are those without degrees. However, entry-level (ish) opportunities are hard to come by in the field of marketing/PR (my field) and I feel like an administrative role is all I'm going to get for right now until I build more experience. If I spent a year or two doing this, would this look bad to potential employers down the road?

Answer: If you decide to venture down this path, choose an administrative position in your field. Employers see unrelated job experience as indecisiveness and lack of confidence, so choosing a position in a totally unrelated field COULD hurt you. Being an Administrative Assistant is a good way to catapult into a field if you choose carefully. Try to work in this capacity for a company that can eventually hire you for the job you desire to have, since internal candidates often get preferential consideration for jobs. Take this time to network with other employees (in HR and the department you covet, especially) and get to know the inner workings of the company. Build as much experience and knowledge as you can as well so that you can become more of an asset to the organization.

Question: What is the role of administrative agencies in the current health care environment?

Answer: appoint nurses . doctors , charts dectitations , etc

Question: The guidelines, procedures and codes of practice that are relevant to work in an administrative role?

Answer: What are the? If that is your question, I guess it depends on the company- they tend to set their own procedures. The Data Protection Act will be a major one and will be applicable all over the UK and Europe.

Question: I need help with my resume objective for an Administrative Role? I'm touching up my resume and the objective i use now it's too blah, can anyone give me an idea how to revamp it and make me land a job. this is how it reads now "To secure a position with a strong company, where hard work and dedication to duty is recognized, utilizing my skills and experience to provide best in class service and grow as an individual within the company."

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Question: Is this truly an Administrative role? My employer has moved me from ofice based administrator with no client contact (client being drug/alco user) to working in magistrates courts, speaking to clients, referring them where necessary and addressing the magistrates. I've stated that my pay grade should be higher than Admin. Do you agree and do you think I have a good case for a grievance?

Answer: I wouldn't have thought that any role involving addressing the magistrates could be regarded as administrative. Referring the clients 'where necessary', as you put it, is arguably administrative, but appearing in court is advocacy.

Question: What is the difference between an Administrative Assistant and a Secretary? I am doing a project for my last week of school and I need to know what the difference between an Administrative Assistant and a Secratary is. I also need to know what their roles were, are, and will be (past, present, future). Anyone help?

Answer: Nothing. Administrative Assistant was deemed more politically correct, and makes the AA feel more important than being called a Secretary. In the past, the used to mainly be responsible for answering phones, taking messages, taking dictation, and typing. Automated phone systems and voicemail has replaced the need for them to do that work a lot of the time, and the majority of executives now type their own messages. Now they seem to be more responsible for keeping the Executives schedules, acting as a travel agent (arranging the executives travel), and do some light spreadsheet and data organization type work. Sometimes they will prepare presentation slides and things like that as well.

Question: How do I break into property sales? I have a background in languages and graduated in December 2005. (I don't particularly want to pursue language study any further). Since I left uni, have I mostly held administrative roles to give me time to decide what to do. I've decided property sales is for me. How can I do it bearing in mind I only have 3 months sales experience?

Answer: Geees, Here's a thought, Do the Real Eastate Manager course at TAFE, you have so many skills, Go For It