Why earn an Executive Office Administration diploma?
If you would like to work as a top-level office assistant, but in a certain area of specialization, then choose an executive office administration diploma, which can be tailored to suit to your interests and career goals.
Career possibilities
If you want to work as a marketing assistant, you may wish to pursue a marketing major where you will study about sales techniques and e-commerce. You could choose a human resources major if you'd like to work in the field of personnel administration. The training you will receive in career and benefits administration will be helpful in this area. An applications major will emphasize the different types of business hardware and software you will be using, and prepare you for a career as a data entry clerk or desktop support specialist. A business accounting major will let you work as a bookkeeper or accounting or payroll clerk.
Occupational outlook
Job growth in most of these clerical fields is expected to be slow (under 8%) through the year 2014, again according to the 2006 Occupational Outlook Handbook (www.BLS.gov). Slow growth does not mean no growth, however, and job openings will occur as people retire or are promoted. Specialized skills and training such as those you will have received in your diploma program will make you a very competitive candidate to work in this field - and maybe you yourself will soon be the one who moves onwards and upwards due to promotion!
Salary information
Salaries will vary by specialty, with entry-level human resources and marketing clerks and assistants and data entry clerks earning salaries in the mid-20,000s annually, and bookkeeping and accounting clerks earning upwards of $28,000 per year according to the 2006 Occupational Outlook Handbook (www.BLS.gov).
Coursework requirements
- Business Math
- Word Processing
- Internet Applications
- Business Presentations
- Communications
- Databases and Spreadsheets
- Accounting
- Executive Office Procedures
Skills you will learn
Depending on your area of emphasis, you will learn marketing and sales techniques, human resources management, business computer applications, and accounting and bookkeeping procedures.
