General requirements for this position include a minimum, ie, experience and administrative support.

Salaries for Personal Assistant varies depending on the position of responsibility, the country, experience, assignments, etc.

A personal assistant, or may be called as a Personal Secretary, in cooperation with the managerial staff to provide administrative support. Personal Assistant to help managers use their best time with secretarial and administrative duties.

Personal Assistant need to have extensive knowledge about their organization. They need to know who the key personnel (both external and internal) and understand the organization's goals and objectives.

Managers often rely heavily on Personal Assistant, believing that jobs will be handled efficiently without their presence. Because of that discretion and confidentiality factor, essential for a successful Personal Assistant.

Personal Assistants often act as a starting point for managers in touch with people from both inside and outside the organization. Work activities include:

• Screening telephone calls, inquiries and requests, and handling them if necessary
• Organizing and maintaining diaries and making appointments
• Dealing with incoming email, fax and post, which is often related to their manager's name
• Conduct background research and presenting findings
• Create documents, briefings, reports and presentations
• Organizing and attending meetings and ensure their managers well-prepared for meetings
• Liaison with clients, suppliers and other staff
• Representing for managers, making decisions and delegating work to others in the absence of manager
• Designing and maintaining office systems, including data management, archiving, etc
• Manage travel and accommodation and, occasionally, traveling with the manager to take notes or dictation at a meeting or to provide general assistance during presentations

In addition to supporting managers, their teams and departments, many also have personal workload and their responsibilities. The scope of the role of personal assistants who can be extensive and additional duties may include:

• Carry out special projects and research
• The responsibility for accounts and budgets
• Take some responsibility and managers work more closely with management
• Engage in decision-making process

Some Personal Assistant Secretaries do all the work itself, while others are responsible for recruiting and training junior staff and delegating some of their work is too demanding and the secret to them.