Executive Assistants
Job description
These individuals coordinate administrative procedures and activities related to public relations, research, and analysis. They work for:
- Parliament members
- Ministers
- Deputy ministers
- Officers
- Executives
- Committees
- Boards of Directors
Environment
- Controlled ambient temperature
Main tasks
- Establish and coordinate administrative policies and procedures.
- Analyze memoranda, briefs, and reports received and to be sent.
- Prepare and present presentations and reports.
- Schedule committee and board meetings.
- Conduct research and compile data.
- Meet with individuals or groups on behalf of management, committees, and boards of directors.
- Liaise between senior managers of departments or companies and other organizations or associations.
Hourly wage
The hourly wage is calculated by averaging wages from 2022 to 2024.- Minimum
- $24.00
- Median
- $32.94
- Maximum
- $48.90
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects for 2024-2028
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2023
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 90% Female
- 10% Male
- 90% Female
- 10% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2020
All of Québec
All of Québec
Other characteristics
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
All of Québec
- Non traditional for men
- None
Sectors of activity
All of Québec
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NAICS 9128% of jobs
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NAICS 6112% of jobs
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NAICS 818% of jobs
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NAICS 621, 622, 6236% of jobs
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NAICS 521, 522, 523, 5266% of jobs
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Others40% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 9128% of jobs
-
NAICS 6112% of jobs
-
NAICS 818% of jobs
-
NAICS 621, 622, 6236% of jobs
-
NAICS 521, 522, 523, 5266% of jobs
-
Others40% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Most training programs are offered in French only.
Secondary
DVS in secretarial Studies
Placement rate: 69.6%
11.5% of graduates pursue further studies
DVS in secrétariat
Placement rate: 84.1%
8% of graduates pursue further studies
College
DCS in office System Technology (Micropublishing and Hypermedia)
Placement rate: 61.8%
29.1% of graduates pursue further studies
DCS in office System Technology (Office Work Coordination)
Placement rate: 89.6%
6.9% of graduates pursue further studies
Sometimes required
- A Bachelor's degree in Public Administration, Political Science, or related discipline may be required.
- Experience in a related administrative position is usually required.
Main skills and characteristics
Skills
- Data collection
- Reading comprehension
- Active listening
- Information processing
- Oral expression
- Written expression
- Service oriented
- Coordination
- Time management
- Critical thought
- Social perception
- Active learning
- Result evaluation
- Judgment and decision-making
- Negotiation
Abilities
- Written comprehension
- Oral comprehension
- Written expression
- Verbal skills
- Speech recognition
- Speech clarity
- Near vision
- Information organization
- Awareness of issues
- Classification
- Deductive reasoning
- Perception speed
- Selective attention
- Idea generation
- Originality
- Inductive reasoning
- Processing flexibility
Knowledge and attributes
- Capacity to develop and maintain business relations
- Capacity to establish and maintain interpersonal relations
- Focussed on results
- Political sense
- Spoken and written bilingualism (French and English)
- Sense of initiative
- Capacity to be discrete
- Friendliness
- Assiduity and punctuality
- Knowledge of office work
Interests
- Draft, communicate, and inform
- Work with numbers
- Work in an office
Personality profiles (RIASEC)
- Conventional
- People with this profile prefer specific, well-defined tasks. They like to respect the order of things and follow established rules.
- Social
- People with this profile prefer to be in contact with others, in particular to entertain, help or teach them.
- Enterprising
- People with this profile prefer having responsibilities, influencing others and responding to challenges.
Official name of the NOC 12100
Executive assistants
Job titles
- Executive assistant
- Legislative assistant
- Parliamentary assistant
- Corporate secretary
- Ministerial assistant
- Special assistant
- Medical information assistant
- Constituency aid
- Committee clerk
- Parliamentary committee clerk
Skill type
Business, finance and administration
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Last update: January 29, 2026