Technology As An Administrative Assistant

Introduction: Technology has definitely changed the last century. However, the last 10 years technology has made a dramatic change. In just 10 years, our nation has gone from house phones to smart phones. Our smart phones can almost do as much as our laptops. Social networking has become the rage to the way we communicate with each other. Businesses are now using social networking and media to promote their companies. Wi-Fi connectivity gives the option to pay bills online, banking and virtually almost everything is done via the internet. It seems it won't be long before our smart phones, or tablets can predict the weather for us and wake us up earlier to get us to work on time, to telling us what food has expired in the refrigerator. So it's …show more content…
A decade ago, the main requirements for administrative assistant jobs were typing and interpersonal skills. IT had not been invented nor was computer programs. Once technology started evolving, dictation services became common. However, even though technology keeps advancing the skills and job duties are still similar to secretaries or administrative assistants from a decade ago in that we still type letters, file and maintain organization's for employees or a group. Today, administrative work regularly includes us undertaking task along with additional responsibilities. Now we are in charge of coordinating travel arrangements, managing budgets and sometimes maintain company websites. In 1952, National Secretary's Day was formed now renamed Administrative Professional's week that is celebrated the fourth week of April. This celebrated day recognizes all of the hard work that administration staff put in every day. In the modern workplace, the responsibilities of administrative assistants have definitely increased involving more varied and complicated task. They are also highly visible, collaborative team members with a wide range of skills. The onset of the recession and advancements in technology the nature of administrative jobs has been affected in the last 10 years. The day-to-day responsibilities have broadened to everything from making purchases, budgeting, planning company events, to training employees, reviewing resumes or interviewing candidates. Since the responsibilities have increased so, have the skills and attributes that define a top-notch administrative professional. Back 40 years ago when there were secretary's word processing skills and typing speed was of high importance. However, in today's world Top-Notch Administrative Professionals need to know at