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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.
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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.
Insurance brokers use their knowledge of the insurance market to help find the right cover, at the best price, for their customers.
Conference and exhibition managers plan and run events like trade shows, conferences and exhibitions.
Registrars collect and record details of all births, deaths, marriages and civil partnerships.
Telephonists, or switchboard operators, answer and connect calls and take messages.
Charity fundraisers organise events and activities to encourage people to donate to causes and organisations.
Court administrative assistants help with the daily running of courts and their supporting offices.
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This is a perfect opportunity for people looking for a challenging, yet busy and exciting role.Shifts: AM & PM. You may start as early as 06:00hrs in the morning and can finish as late as 22:00hrs. This role works on a 16-week rotation shift pattern.Starting salary of 23,000 per annum increasing to 28,000 with experience and skills.24 days holiday per year increasing to 28 with the length of service. (Plus bank holidays).Overtime opportunities are available.Uniform Provided.
Do you want to kickstart your career as a Control Room Trainee learn to monitor, manage, and optimize water distribution and production, ensuring reliable, high-quality supply to meet customer demand and safeguard reserve storage?If this sounds like you, then youll want to learn more about this opportunityWe want to be the water company people want to be supplied by and want to work for.As a Control Room Trainee, you will learn & develop, monitoring managing skills, controlling both distribution and production operating networks, to ensure reliable, sufficient, secure availability of water supplies, meeting the required quality standards needed, for us to meet customer demand and preserve our storage levels, 247 365 days a year.We believe in rewarding our employees as they grow and take on greater responsibilities. This role comes with a clear career progression path, ensuring fair compensation as you develop your skills and expertise
You’ll need to achieve a minimum 2:2 in a Project Management degree discipline. It doesnt matter when you graduated or if you are currently working towards your qualification. We just need you to be eager to apply your knowledge in a real-world setting. Due to the amount of travel to our site locations, you’ll need to have a full valid UK driving license that allows you to drive in the UK. Youll need flexibility to travel within role and throughout your rotations as required. To be eligible to apply for this role, candidates must be able to demonstrate that they will have the legal right to work in the UK for the duration of the graduate programme. If you do not currently have the right to work in the UK, or your visa is due to expire during the period of the graduate scheme, please indicate this in your application and we will consider your eligibility for visa sponsorship and whether it would be appropriate to take your application forward.LocationThis role is based across various locations. This means you’ll be expected to travel around this region as part of your role.What youll get in returnWe are proud to offer a graduate starting salary of 34,895.
Working hours: Monday to Friday 9 am to 5 pm, 38 hours per week.Base Location: Spenser House, Reading.What you should bring to the roleHave a minimum of an A-level education with science experience, though a science degree is advantageous.Experience working in a routine sample testing or Laboratory environment would be beneficial.Value being part of a team to deliver perfect customer service.Feel comfortable working within all Metals areas and have felt comfortable working to set protocols and methodologies within our QMS.Possess a sense of drive and determination to learn new job responsibilities. Be willing to learn, grow and develop in the role within our progression schemes.Whats in it for you?Salary from 27,722 per annum with a clear progression scheme.
Sales matter in this role, but your real focus will be the customer. You’ll ask questions and explore possibilities to recommend the right finance, products, and installation options. You’ll use software to produce inspirational designs that will bring customer projects to life. Coordinating multiple projects & supporting customers virtually and face to face, you’ll take our customers on a journey from inspirational ideas through to delivery, helping to make their dreams a reality.
Exwick Ark are looking for someone to join their administration team, to help support the function of the nursery and play a key part in the day to day running.
The Parametrics Business Administration Apprentice will support the parametric UW team for regulatory operational tasks. The role will have a focus on the due diligence assessments of our external stakeholders, as well as other reporting requirements.
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