Skills to evaluate against your experience
These are the highest-rated skills in our O*NET selection for secretaries and administrative assistants, except legal, medical, and executive. Importance uses O*NET’s 1–5 scale; it is not an ATS score or a checklist every employer requires. Include a skill only when you can demonstrate it.
| Skill | Importance / 5 |
|---|---|
| Active Listening | 4 |
| Speaking | 4 |
| Reading Comprehension | 3.88 |
| Writing | 3.75 |
| Service Orientation | 3.5 |
| Time Management | 3.5 |
| Monitoring | 3.12 |
| Coordination | 3.12 |
| Critical Thinking | 3 |
| Social Perceptiveness | 3 |
| Judgment and Decision Making | 3 |
| Active Learning | 2.88 |
Software examples associated with this occupation
Use the actual posting to select relevant tools. Familiarity varies by employer and specialization.
- Microsoft Excel
- Microsoft Office software
- Microsoft Outlook
- Microsoft PowerPoint
- Microsoft Word
- Adobe Acrobat
- Adobe Creative Cloud software
- Adobe Illustrator
- Adobe InDesign
- Adobe Photoshop
- Apache Cassandra
- Apache Hadoop
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Turn your experience into a resume bullet
Choose a task you have actually done. Add your own action, context and result; the worksheet assembles your words without inventing experience.
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Answer telephones and give information to callers, take messages, or transfer calls to appropriate individuals.
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Review before using your bullet
Check that it explains your own contribution, connects to the target posting and uses facts you can support. Remove confidential details. If you lack paid experience, a relevant project, internship or volunteer example can provide evidence; label that context accurately.
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