What do you consider the main responsibilities of an administrative assistant?

Some job seekers believe that all assistants do is making good coffee, and answering phone calls. 

If you want to succeed in your interview, however, you need to show them that you are ready to do much more than that. You need to convince the HR managers that you see your role in the team, and believe to have an impact on the final results of the entire department, or company.

If we had to summarize the duties of an administrative assistant to a single sentence, we would say they were responsible to handle any administrative task their superior assigned to them. But you can say much more than that…

Job description will help you

Interviewer and applicant discussing resume in an interview for administrative assistant positionLook at the job description and locate the section that describes your working duties. It should help you to understand if they want to hire a secretary, an office manager, or someone in between the two.

It will also help you to see what they expect from you, so you can answer this questions in a best possible way.

Remember that your attitude matters the most of all things. Show them that you are ready to work hard, and to do more than expected from you.

Sample answer

I believe that the main responsibility of an administrative assistant is to take care of all administrative duties, assigned by their superiors, so the other people in the office can focus on their tasks. I also believe a good assistant should try their best to build and maintain good atmosphere in an office.

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