Admin Jobs Today #1

Welcome to our new weekly feature, Admin Jobs Today!  What is this feature?  Well, every Friday I am going to look at the first 10 jobs for administrative assistants that appear on a job site (chosen at random) and examine the qualifications the employers are looking for when hiring administrative help.  This is a great way for job searchers to learn more about themselves - what skills do they already have?  What skills do the need to work on?  Should they think about going to school to develop their skills further?  Each Friday I will also post the jobs I've looked at so you can look at them more closely as well.
I've started with 29 skills and will show you all of them today and how many employers are requesting those skill but in the future I will focus on the top 10 skills.  The more jobs we look at the better picture we will have of what skills should be focused on.
So today these are the results that I got looking at the first 10 jobs on the Service Canada Job Bank.

Word	10
Windows	9
Excel	8
Internet	8
Work with public/provide info	8
Inventory	8
Email	7
Processing Mial	5
Reading	5
Writing	5
Oral communications	5
Work with others	5
Compile, record, process info	5
Store, update, retreive info	5
Accounting software	5
Prepare reports	4
Proofreading	4
Continuous learning	3
Problem solving, decision making, critical thinking	3
Finding info	3
Databases/spreadsheets	3
General bookkeeping	3
Receive payments	2
Organize, schedule office work	2
Filing	2
Memory	2
Swithboard	1
Electronic scheduling	1

As you can see the top 5 skills that employers are looking for in the 10 jobs that I looked at today are:

1. Word
2. Windows
3. Excel
4. Internet
5. Working with the public and providing info

In the next week, I'll look at some of those skills in more depth and talk about what they mean and what kinds of tasks you might be doing with those skills.
Meanwhile, if you are looking for a job, feel free to check out the jobs that I looked at today:

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Myers Norris Penny Visits Robertson College

Today we had the pleasure of having a visitor from Myers Norris Penny, Chartered Accountants and Business Advisors, visit Robertson College.  Allister Penner, the senior manager of assurance service was an enthusiastic speaker and really seemed to enjoy telling us about the opportunities that are going to be available to people like our students who have a strong bookkeeping background.  

While MNP has customers as their main focus, they are not able to do this if their employees are not happy as well and that is why they give team members the support they need to reach their full potential.  They are proud to be a company that has been built on values and work-life balance is an important part of that.  They believe that having fun at work is not only possible but something that should happen!  They believe in not only helping people to reach their goals but also to discover them and branch out.  To find out more about careers at Myers Norris Penny please click here.


Michelle Tillet (the instructor for the Accounting & Payroll Adminstration course) and myself (Danielle McGaw, Administrative Professional and Bookkeeping course) took the opportunity to speak to potential students as well.  We both love our jobs and we love what we teach so talking about our courses is always enjoyable to us!

Having speakers from local business come to speak to current students and future students is something we do as often as possible.  If you'd like to learn more about our Administrative programs and be contacted next time we have a speaker please CLICK HERE!  Fill out the form (and don't forget to tell them you came from the Admin Professional blog!) and someone will contact you as soon as possible.