Secretary

A secretary is an office/administrative support position. The title refers to a person who performs routine, administrative, or personal tasks for a superior. These office employees perform duties such as typing, computer processing, and scheduling for an executive. They usually work at desks in offices.

Related Topics:
Office - Computer - Desk

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• Since the Renaissance until the late 19th century, men involved in the daily correspondance and ther activities of the mighty had assumed the title of secretary (or in other cases clerk), which contains the word secret to indicate the confidential -hence potentially influential- nature of such work.
 
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