How to become an executive secretary
Official title: Executive secretary
Also called: Confidential secretary, Executive assistant, Confidential secretary, Executive assistant
Executive secretary provides administrative and organisational task support to top-level management. He/she performs research, prepares correspondence, reports, presentations, contracts and other specialised documentation. He/she also organises meetings and travel arrangements. He/she may assist in the preparation of budgets, monitoring of expenditures and client relationship management. He/she may also manage the day-to-day operations of the office or supervise other clerical staff.
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- Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
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Generative AI could change many tasks in this job, which usually reshapes the work more than it replaces it, by the ILO's global estimate.
Sources
- International Labour Organization, Generative AI and Jobs: A Refined Global Index of Occupational Exposure (ILO Working Paper 140, Gmyrek et al.) (ILO Working Paper 140, May 2025, Annex Table A1), CC BY 4.0, retrieved 4 October 2026
Updated 4 October 2026