Helping Canadians get back to work.
SECRETARIAL STUDIES – DEP 5857
PROGRAM OBJECTIVES
As part of their daily tasks, secretaries independantly assume the administrative tasks necessary to support managers and professionals.Secretarial tasks consist of:
- Assure the quality of documents
- Contribute to the office supplies
- Correct texts, do layouts, collate and distribute documents.
- Edit documents and designing presentations, spreadsheets, visual design of documents
- Enter texts and data into a computer
- Follow up on business correspondence
- Keep agendas up to date
- Organise meetings and events
- Perform accounting tasks (bookkeeping, bank deposits, follow up on supplier and client accounts)
- Perform document management
- Provide customer service
- Provide technical support on occasion for using equipment and integrating new employees
- Translate texts
- Update the information diffused on Internet sites and social media.
12-month program offered at the Longueuil and Sherbrooke campuses
TARGETED PROFESSIONS
- Administrative assistants
- Administrative officers
- Data entry clerks
- Executive assistants
- Personnel clerks
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