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Company Secretaries

Company secretaries (excluding professional/chartered company secretaries) file and maintain company records, translate notes and dictation into typewritten form and perform other clerical tasks within commercial organisations.

Wages

New workers
AVERAGE
Experienced
£7,204
£17,786
£33,297

New workers start around £7,204. Normal pay is £17,786 per year.
Highly experienced workers can earn up to £33,297.

Available jobs

In the past year there were 32,333 vacancies for this type of job

5.20%

Projected job growth over the next 8 years

Related courses

People work towards these careers by taking these courses at college and uni.

What they do most days?

  • Ensures office supplies such as stationery and equipment are maintained.

  • Undertakes reception responsibilities by greeting visitors and arranging refreshments.

  • Answers, screens, handles and directs telephone requests and enquiries, takes messages and forwards to the appropriate member of staff.

  • Arranges meetings, circulates agenda and other meeting documents, attends meetings, and takes and prepares minutes.

  • Keeps appointments diary, makes travel arrangements and arranges conference and other functions.

  • Files and retrieves documents, sets up and maintains filing systems and reproduces copies of documentation as required.

  • Deals directly with routine correspondence.

  • Uses appropriate software to produce correspondence, memoranda, reports, presentations and other documents from drafts, handwritten copy or by transcribing dictation.

  • Opens, sorts, distributes and files correspondence (both hard copy and electronic).

Hard Skills

Hard skills are specific, learnable, measurable, often industry or occupation-specific abilities related to a position.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Generative Adversarial Networks

  • Operating Systems

  • Finance

  • Network Interface Device

  • Loans

  • Financial Advising

  • Management Information Systems

  • Auditing

  • Financial Management

  • Financial Statements

Soft Skills

Soft skills can be self-taught and usually do not necessitate a certain completed level of education.

Skills are ranked based on the number of job adverts that list them as required skills.

  • Communication

  • Customer Service

  • English Language

  • Management

  • Enthusiasm

  • Willingness To Learn

  • Positivity

  • Microsoft Excel

  • Leadership

  • Governance

How do I get a job like this?

People in these types of job started their career paths after studying courses like the ones below.

Routes to this career

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Modern History

University of Winchester

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Winchester · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/120

International Management

Lancaster University

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Lancaster · 01/10/2024

Tariff points: 128/128

Business (HND)

Cambridge Regional College

HND · 1 Year · Full-time · Cambridge · 09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Philosophy

University of Birmingham

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Birmingham · 30/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Finance and Business Management

University of Westminster, London

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich including industrial placement · London · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/112

Philosophy

Anglia Ruskin University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Cambridge · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 96/96

Art History

University of Plymouth

BA (Hons) · 4 Years · Sandwich · Plymouth · 16/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/112

Business (Finance)

Bishop Grosseteste University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Lincoln · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 96/112

Philosophy

University of Liverpool

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Liverpool · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: N/A

Business Management

Manchester Metropolitan University

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Manchester · 09/2024

Tariff points: 120/128

Philosophy with Foundation Year

Birkbeck, University of London

BA (Hons) · 6 Years · Part-time · London · 10/2024

Tariff points: N/A

History

University of Portsmouth

BA (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Portsmouth · 23/09/2024

Tariff points: 104/112

Business and Management

University of Kent

BSc (Hons) · 3 Years · Full-time · Chatham · 14/09/2024

Tariff points: 112/128

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