IAAP 2005 Profile of Administrative Professionals Survey

Areas of job responsibilities that have increased most over past five years
(On rating scale of 0 to 10; 10 being area of most increased responsibilities; 0 being area of least increase in responsibilities)

Sampling of "Other" Responses...

• A much higher level of technical customer support within the organization and with external customers

• Accounting responsibilities

• Active member of administrative team

• Admin team member

• As analyst, spend 98% of time analyzing documentation and reporting

• Budget development and expense tracking

• Budget planning, handling immigration and relocation processing

• Budget preparation/budget management

• Budget projections and record-keeping

• Calendar management of multiple people

• Collaborate with others to get data/answers and then prepare reports to company headquarters

• Communication with more external contacts - clients, vendors, etc.

• Creating and managing fiscal year and mid-year department budgets

• Database creation and database management

• Direct contact with clients

• Elimination of one staff member plus overall increase in work at my company

• Facility management corporate wide

• Finance and budget

• Gathering/compiling information

• Global project teams; expert on subject matter specific to my organization

• Handle the budget for three departments

• Have duties in many areas

• Human resources duties

• I am the "go-to" person for purchasing problems and responsible for ordering all MRO items for the company

• I manage a 40 million dollar budget; write contracts with contactors; order and receive materials

• Increase in number of "bosses"

• Initiate ideas

• Internet research

• Job had changed due to corporate merger - less responsibility than in previous years

• Lead person in my office

• Leadership of department; increased decision making

• Learning programming in dBase software

• Legal related responsibilities

• Liaison to senior management and corporate board of directors

• Main liaison to CFO

• Managing a complex calendar with multiple changes

• Managing a global business leader

• Managing employees that supervisor doesn't talk to

• Moved from assisting senior VP to assisting the CEO

• My level of responsibility has increased with length of service.

• Other duties as assigned

• Payroll processing

• Processing new hire paperwork

• Provide legal support to corporate attorney

• Receiving inventory

• Recommending/giving input from manual to computerized juvenile justice computer program

• Requests for my opinions/expertise

• Research

• Security

• Special projects

• Staff liaison to corporate committees

• Support our board of directors and upper management staff

• Teacher

• Technical workload

• Time in service = more knowledge and experience to contribute

• Train higher level employees on computer skills

• Training/orientation of incoming admins

• Type, proofread, copy, bind reports and financial statements

• Use to do more until change in boss two years ago

• Working old job and new job at the moment - no job description for new job

• Workload in general

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