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 2020 to 2022.- Minimum
- $21.00
- Median
- $28.59
- Maximum
- $43.96
Job prospects for 2022-2026
sr.comparaison-region.titre
Job prospects for 2022-2026
Job prospects
All of Québec
All of Québec
Total jobs for 2021
All of Québec
All of Québec
Gender distribution
All of Québec
- 90.9% Female
- 9.1% Male
- 90.9% Female
- 9.1% Male
Job types
All of Québec
- Full time
- Part time
- 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: 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: 67.7%
20% of graduates pursue further studies
DCS in office System Technology (Office Work Coordination)
Placement rate: 85.7%
10.7% 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.
Note about CNP
Occupational information is provided based on the National Occupational Classification (NOC) 2016. The 5-digit code of the NOC 2021 is shown in parentheses for information purposes only for occupations that correspond to those of NOC 2016.
Official name of the NOC 1222 (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
Related occupations
Last update: April 28, 2023
