facebookAdministrative Assistant
Do you want more fulfillment from your job? Are you good at multi-tasking? Do you like helping others? If you answered “yes” to any of these questions, you should consider the Administrative Assistant Diploma program from Herzing College.
What does an Administrative
Assistant do?
Administrative Assistants perform a variety of administrative and clerical duties necessary to an organization’s operation. They serve as communication managers for an office; organize and maintain files (electronic and hard copy), manage projects, conduct research, and distribute information by using the telephone, mail, and email.
Administrative Assistants use a variety of office equipment including fax machines, copiers, scanners, and telephone systems. In addition, they often use computers to accomplish tasks previously handled by managers, such as generating spreadsheets, composing memos and letters, managing databases, and creating presentations, reports, and other documents using desktop publishing software.
Our Administrative Assistant program
Our program provides instruction in business application software along with business office practices and operations. Computer packages include word processing, spreadsheets, database, accounting, presentation graphics, and information management. Other areas of study include communication skills, accounting concepts, and office methods and procedures. Graduates will be prepared to work in the business office of any organization. Graduates should find employment opportunities with government offices and agencies, and various private business enterprises. Potential job position titles include Administrative Assistant, Accounting Clerk, Bookkeeper, Receptionist, Office Clerk, Secretary, and Customer Service Representative.
Employment assistance after you graduate
Our Career Development Department works personally with you to identify employment opportunities. This includes coaching on job search, resume writing, and interviewing techniques. We will also utilize our extensive employer network to help you get as many employment opportunities as possible.
Klinic Community Health Centre has had the pleasure of hosting four interns from the Administrative Assistant Program at Herzing College over the course of the past 4 years. Our experiences have all been very positive. We enjoy having a student presence as they bring vitality and enthusiasm to the work place. We appreciate the exceptional level of skill that students from Herzing College bring, particularly in the areas of word-processing and database programming. Each of the students we have hosted has displayed a high level of competency, which speaks volumes about Herzing’s reputation as an industry leader in the educational field. During each of the four-week internships, we feel we benefit as much from their contributions as they do from us in providing work experience! Due to very low staff turnover at Klinic, we have only been able to provide employment to one of the students, but have happily provided many references on their behalf.
Kathie Timmermann
Director of Administration
Klinic Community Health Centre
870 Portage Avenue, Winnipeg, MB R3G 0P1
Our company, one of the top 5 employers in the province of Manitoba, has hired one of Herzing College’s Administrative Assistant graduates following their internship with us back in 2008. This graduate demonstrated a very professional approach to our administrative team here, a desire to learn, a willingness to help existing long-term employees with some of the newer technical skills that are being taught in the most up-to-date versions at Herzing, and was so flexible and capable that they now have a full time position as the Administrative Assistant to our Director and the person to whom we entrust all of our national property maintenance contracts for renewal, initiation and tracking purposes. We are fortunate to have found such a well-trained and capable individual and I credit Herzing College’s program with making the difference.
Thank-you Herzing College, and we look forward to all future interns who enrich our workplace.
Joanne Weir – Herzing Advisory Board Member
MTS Allstream
Manager Accommodations Planning / Administration
Administrative Assistant Internship Testimonials
I feel that the academic program at Herzing College prepared me the best for my future. The dedication that I put into it, and with the success of completing the program, I have a lot more confidence in my abilities to have a secure and prosperous future. Also, the faculty members at Herzing College have been great in helping me achieve my goals. I know for a fact that it wasn’t only my dedication to the program, but it was also the encouragement and the excitement of the faculty members that helped me achieve this.
The internship helped my future by giving me the opportunity to apply my skills and gain even more confidence in my skills for a great career. With the experience that I was able to obtain at the internship, it reinforced the fact that I do have the abilities to work in an office and be able to handle the workload. Not only did I learn new skills, but I also learned the value of people. This is what I learned outside of school with the socializing that happens at Herzing. I was always happy to go to school no matter how bad my mornings were just because I knew that I would be able to see some of the friends that I had made at Herzing. I knew they would listen, and I knew that they cared, and this is the best feeling. By knowing that I can make life changes and be able to make friends no matter what I do has prepared me the absolute best for my future. With the connections that I have made at Herzing, I know that I will never have to struggle alone and this is the best feeling anyone can have.
– Tanya Jackson
I think the Administrative Assistant course is one of the best to take. It really doesn’t limit you in what you can do. It is more general and prepares you for today’s workforce not just a specific field. Everyone from my class is doing something different; not one of us has the same job description. I think Herzing College is well worth the money and I would recommend anyone because I feel that after you attend Herzing, it makes you a more professional person and employee.
– Kim Johnson
I can honestly say that Herzing College changed my life and has more than prepared me for working in an office environment. The outline of the Administrative Assistant program covered a wide range of tasks and scenarios that I have had similar experiences with in my internship.
– Julia Brinkman
I found the academic program at Herzing College prepared me for the future because I learned many skills that will help me on a daily basis. For example, the Simply Accounting class will enable me to do work on the side for smaller companies and Excel will help me keep my finances organized in stats form. I can now make graphs to compare from year to year. The feedback and the vote of confidence from the staff will forever be with me.
– Dominique Lagasse
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