Office Occupations: Organization and Patience

Office Occupations degrees encompass majors such as general office services, office management, administrative assistance and secretarial science and receptionist. General office services majors learn to perform office work under the supervision of office managers and secretaries. They study office equipment operation, business communications, filing and typing. Related majors to general office services include office management, business and administrative assistance and secretarial science.

Office management majors supervise and manage people and operations in business offices. Classes cover topics such as public relations, scheduling, budgeting, records management, and employee supervision. As an office management major you will work or volunteer in an office, volunteer for supervisory roles in school clubs, practice your organizing skills as you juggle school assignments with extracurricular activities and work responsibilities, sharpen your communication skills, practice operating fax machines and other office equipment and learn how to use various software programs.

Administrative assistance and secretarial science majors learn the skills necessary to become stenographers, secretaries, and administrative assistants. As an administrative assistant and secretarial science major you will be able to practice record keeping, develop professionalism, learn how to organize files, learn to use a variety of computer software programs, increase your typing speed, understand office systems and learn to work with the public. A successful administrative assistance and secretarial science major has to be an organized person who is attentive to detail and patient. The ability to interact with people of all sorts is highly valued.