Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an executive assistant can go next

5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an executive assistant already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Executive assistants are advanced administrative professionals who work with top-level executives or in international facilities in various industries. They organise meetings, organise and maintain files, arrange travel, train staff members, communicate in other languages, and manage the day-to-day operations of the office.

Also known as executive administrative assistant, assistant manager, personal assistant, executive secretary, foreign language correspondent executive assistant, multilingual secretary, senior administrative secretary, personal executive assistant, foreign language assistant.

Technicians and associate professionals 41 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: management assistant, 61%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
management assistant 61% covered administrative assistant 38% covered secretary 31% covered marketing assistant 31% covered foreign language corresponden… 30% covered executive assistant You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from executive assistant, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an executive assistant already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An executive assistant needs 25 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • maintain register of shareholders information skills
  • translate keywords into full texts information skills
  • communicate schedules to the people concerned communication, collaboration and creativity
  • organise travel arrangements for staff communication, collaboration and creativity
  • manage office facility systems working with computers
  • manage personnel agenda management skills
  • draft corporate emails communication, collaboration and creativity
  • disseminate messages to people management skills
  • perform business research information skills
  • process commissioned instructions communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an executive assistant does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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Executive assistant is filed under Technicians and associate professionals, ISCO major group 3. The full index lists all ten groups.

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How these figures were compiled

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an executive assistant’s work. 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.