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Document management and information activity |Документоведение и информационная деятельность
Final Certification |Итоговая Аттестация
LESSON 2
Read the text: SECRETARY (PART ІІ)
The largest difference between a generalized secretary and skilled executive assistants is that the executive assistant is required to be able to interact extensively with the general public, vendors, customers, and any other person or group that the executive is responsible to interact with. As the level that the executive interacts with increases so does the level of skill required in the executive assistant that works with the executive. Those executive assistants that work with corporate officers must be capable of emulating the style, corporate philosophy, and corporate persona of the executive for which they work. In the modern workplace the advancement of the executive assistants is codependent on the success of the executive and the ability of both to make the job performance of the team seamless whereas the job place evaluation is reflective of each other’s performance.
Governmental secretary
In the USA, many high-level government positions leading their section of the executive branch are called 'Secretaries', such as the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Interior or the Secretary of Defense.
In the United Kingdom government, a Principal Private Secretary is the chief assistant of a Secretary of State or Minister of the Crown. Senior civil servants may also have a Private Secretary. Depending upon the seniority of their principal, a Private Secretary may him or herself be regarded as an important official in their own right.
The Private Secretary to the Sovereign and the Private Secretary to the Prime Minister are the most important. A Private Secretary can be assisted by one or more Assistants and/or Deputy Secretaries, or even head a whole office in which those may be section chiefs.
In Australia, the appointed senior civil service administrator of each Department of State is titled Secretary, normally with various levels of Deputy Secretary and Assistant Secretary beneath them.
In several continental European states, similar positions (to a head of state or executive minister) are given names meaning chief of the 'cabinet' (e.g. Chef de cabinet in French) in the sense of personal advisory and administrative staff, indeed like a Chief of Staff heading a bureau that may in fact include one or more functions styled Secretary, e.g. Press Secretary, Social Secretary. The same function may exist under another name without the word 'Private', and to a gubernotorial dignitary, e.g. Secretary to the Governor General as in Canada.
Other cultural traditions have one or more specific terms for a similar position, e.g. in the former kingdom of Afghanistan, Shaghasi-i-Huzuri (from Shaghasi Chamberlain & Huzur Presence) meant 'Private Secretary to the King'.
In the People's Republic of China, a Party Committee Secretary, colloquially termed a party chief, is the most prominent regional Communist Party leadership office, usually the number-one figure in their respective regions. For example, Yu Zhengsheng, the Communist Party Shanghai Committee Secretary, is the city's highest ranked leader, higher than the mayor.
Medical secretary
A medical secretary provides secretarial support in clinics. Duties are e.g. to inform patients of costs and further information resources for care offered. Other duties are to answer telephones, relay messages and greet visitors. Duties depend on instructions and pre-established guidelines from medical staff.
The job requires a high school diploma or its equivalent in addition to 0-2 years of related experience.
In the United States, the average annual salary for a medical secretary is $31,620.
1. Match the left part with the right:
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1. Those executive assistants must be capable of |
a) under another name without the word 'Private'. |
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2. A Private Secretary can be assisted by |
b) emulating the style, corporate philosophy, and corporate persona of the executive for which they work. |
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3. The same function may exist |
c) instructions and pre-established guidelines from medical staff. |
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4. Duties depend on |
d) one or more Assistant - and or Deputy Secretaries. |
2.Complete the sentences with the suggested words:
fact in like of
In several continental European states, similar positions (to a head (1)_____ state or executive minister) are given names meaning chief of the 'cabinet' (e.g. Chef de cabinet in French) (2)_____ the sense of personal advisory and administrative staff, indeed (3)_____ a Chief of Staff heading a bureau that may in (4)_____ include one or more functions styled Secretary, e.g. Press Secretary, Social Secretary.