Secretary is the name for an occupation of office, which extremely frequently women implement (secretary). Mostly the job title (teaching profession) is commercial employees or also office purchase woman/man; Secretary (in) however the function, which they it implements in the organization.

Secretaries are specialists for text organization and - processing, communication transmission and the organization of offices. With the help of more modern, often computer-aided possibilities settle they correspondence and provide statistics, files and card indices. Beyond that they are responsible for scheduling of their superiors, preparations for their journeys and discussions. Secretaries work particularly in enterprises, in the trade, in the administration and at federations.

In the training as the commercial employee and/or office purchase woman - man is relatively balanced the sex relationship, while afterwards mainly women work as a secretary.

Training in the GDR

The training as the "“examined secretary"” called an obligatory qualification program for the acquisition of the certificate of competency in the GDR secretary, which replaced the up to then valid training document effective 1 January 1974. Appropriate training courses were accomplished at the people's highschools and operating academies. Fundamental conditions for the participation were an occupation conclusion as skilled workers for write technology, as a restaurant economics or as financial buyer as well as the proof of 140 syllables/a minute in the subject stenography and 250 notices/minute in typing. This training was particularly intended for proven specialists and depended on a special test order. The mandatory hour board planned 288 lessons to complete as a rule during a yearly on 38 instruction days. As voucher work a topic which can be suggested by the delegating enterprise was to be worked on. At writetechnical achievements 160 syllables/minute and 300 notices/minute were demanded. The economical responsibility for the contentwise organization of the secretary qualification was with Institut for out and further training in the building industry.

See also

• Specialized buyer/woman for office management
• Foreign language secretary
• Secretary-General
• Political secretary
• Right secretary
• Undersecretary of state
• Secretary in office designations
• Shorthand-typist

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