Where a administrative assistant can go next
12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a administrative assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Administrative assistants provide administrative and office support for supervisors. They perform a variety of tasks, such as answering telephone calls, receiving and directing visitors, ordering office supplies, maintaining the office facilities running smoothly, and ensuring that equipment and appliances work properly.
- Highest coverage recorded
- 71%
- Destinations
- 12each with a full record
- Within reach
- 4difficulty under 55
- Skills on file
- 41required or supplementary
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
- executive assistant 49% covered · difficulty 55.8
- file clerk 40% covered · difficulty 57.5
- receptionist 33% covered · difficulty 64.9
- supply chain assistant 32% covered · difficulty 62.8
- billing clerk 29% covered · difficulty 62.8
- investment clerk 27% covered · difficulty 69.7
- typist 27% covered · difficulty 67
- marketing assistant 23% covered · difficulty 77.6
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administrative assistant is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a administrative assistant already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.