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It is called with the term of secretary to that individual, female or male, who works professionally in an office, a company, an organization, carrying out administrative tasks, that is why it is usually referred to as Administrative Assistant and assisting the company manager to whom he has been assigned as secretary, or failing that to the owner of the company, in everything he or she needs.

In some way, what the secretary does is optimize the manager's or owner's time so that they do not have more concerns than directing and making decisions that involve business growth in question.

Among the various activities that he carries out are: reception of documents, answering telephone calls, attending to visits and providers, file documentation, agenda management, both with regard to addresses and meetings, mastery of tools and typical artifacts of an office such as: calculator, computer, machine of to write, printer, switch, fax, copier, software.
Likewise, many secretary positions require knowledge of other languages ​​and also of protocol.

business and institutional.

Generally, the secretary performs his work at a desk and in an office or space adjacent to that of his direct boss.

But the aforementioned is not the only use that the word presents, since its use to designate a position in the public administration and to designate the head or maximum leader of an organization either politics, union or association.

In some countries where the administration from government has been divided into department, the secretary of state he will be the head of one of those departments, it would be the equivalent of Minister in other states.

And secretary is also the denomination that receives a species of bird widespread in Africa, the Sagittarius serpentarius, who has just received the appointment of secretary because of his curious physical appearance: body covered with feathers gray, black legs and feathered crest, similar to the one that English secretaries used to wear a few centuries ago behind.

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