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Administration
Secretaries provide administrative support for all types of organisations.
You may find it useful to take a course in administration or secretarial skills. Colleges offer full-time and part-time courses, including awards, certificates and diplomas. Useful subjects include: business administration, typing, audio transcription, computer skills and shorthand.
You'll usually need 5 GCSEs at grades 9 to 4 (A* to C), or the equivalent, including English and maths.
Volunteering
Volunteering, for example with a charity, could help you to get some relevant experience. It's a good way of developing IT and office skills that are valued by employers.
You'll need:
In your day-to-day tasks you could:
With experience, you could become a personal assistant or office manager. You could also move into human resources work, or train as a legal or medical secretary.
Bookkeepers keep financial records up to date and help prepare accounts.
Civil Service administrative officers work in government departments, carrying out policies and running services for the public.
Car rental agents hire out and lease vehicles to businesses and the public.
Registrars collect and record details of all births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships.
Local government officers put council policies into practice and provide local services.
Interpreters convert the spoken word from one language into another, either face-to-face or remotely.
We have a really exciting opportunity here at NEC for an ambitious individual with a hard-working mentality to be successful in a role that genuinely makes a difference to the lives of the others, whilst forging a great career step for yourself.
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We are looking for a business apprentice to support our administration team to update and data cleanse our customer database.
We are looking for a business apprentice to support our accounting team including support for reception and telephone enquiries.
NICE’s main purpose is to improve health and wellbeing by putting science and evidence at the heart of health and care decision making. As an organisation we all collaborate to achieve this same goal through empowering our workforce to do great things!
Join our team, and you’ll become an expert advisor. An inspiration as well as a guide. The person who gets to know every customer and their home improvement projects. Sales will be important, of course, as will things like managing stock, setting up displays, and making sure your store looks great. You’ll have the opportunity to be trained in paint-mixing and cutting timber, but truly great customer service will be your main aim.
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