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 2018 to 2020.- Minimum
- $19.00
- Median
- $27.88
- Maximum
- $42.86
Job prospects for 2019-2023
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Job prospects for 2019-2023
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2018
All of Québec
All of Québec
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- 93.6%
- Part time
- 6.4%
- Full time
- Part time
Yearly wage on 2015
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
-
NAICS 9123% of jobs
-
NAICS 6110% of jobs
-
NAICS 818% of jobs
-
NAICS 621, 622, 6237% of jobs
-
NAICS 521, 522, 523, 5266% of jobs
-
Others46% of jobs
All of Québec
-
NAICS 9123% of jobs
-
NAICS 6110% of jobs
-
NAICS 818% of jobs
-
NAICS 621, 622, 6237% of jobs
-
NAICS 521, 522, 523, 5266% of jobs
-
Others46% of jobs
Training and requirements
Formation
Secondary
DVS
in
secretarial
Studies
Placement rate: 70.2%
14.7% of graduates pursue further studies
DVS
in
secrétariat
Placement rate: 77.1%
10.9% of graduates pursue further studies
College
DCS
in
office
System
Technology
(Micropublishing
and
Hypermedia)
Placement rate: 69.8%
20.9% of graduates pursue further studies
DCS
in
office
System
Technology
(Office
Work
Coordination)
Placement rate: 88.4%
9.9% 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 1222
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: December 3, 2021
