Personal Narrative: My Role As An Administrative Assistant

I was employed at a large facility that required that every individual within the facility work together to strive to make sure that the patients and customers of the facility left the facility knowing that they had been well taken care of, to the best of everyone’s ability. I was employed as an Administrative Assistant I in the Supply Chain Management Department in the Shipping and Receiving Department at the University of Mississippi Medical Center. My job was to ensure that orders and paperwork from different vendors were processed correctly and in an orderly manner. I had to ensure that all paperwork was filed in the appropriate and correct area. I had to familiarize myself with functions of an office manager in the process of assuming the duties of the office managing process. I had to be willing to assist with special projects, develop great ideas, and be willing to report to work early and stay late. I also was responsible for all duties and responsibilities of bookkeeping inventory of accounting and budgeting of the department. So my goals were to provide excellent customer service, assist properly with making sure that every package that goes out to every department receives a …show more content…
This process is extremely important because if a department ordered items to be delivered to their department and they received them, they should notify our department so that I could update it in the system to show that the order is processed correctly. In the scanning process, it would show the signature of who signed for the package, when, and where it went. This shows that every task and procedure was followed properly. These procedures show The Accounting Department that every step of the process of delivery was taken properly. So this process shows that if a problem takes place, verification is in the