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secretary

vr.tr.secretary · SOC.PER

Let an agent explain secretary roles from administrative support to organisational and parliamentary officers, describe skills and duties, separate the senior government sense, and support career and organisational questions.

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Purpose and description

Let an agent explain secretary roles from administrative support to organisational and parliamentary officers, describe skills and duties, separate the senior government sense, and support career and organisational questions.

A person employed to handle correspondence, records, scheduling and administrative support for an individual, office or organisation, and also an officer of an organisation or legislature responsible for records and procedure, such as an honorary secretary of a society or the secretaries of a parliament; the title is also used for senior government posts such as secretaries of state and party secretaries, senses distinguished by context.

What it is for: Administrative and record-keeping roles.

It can be explain secretary roles; describe skills and duties; separate senses; support career questions.

Distinguishing features

Administrative support

Records and procedure

Officer roles in organisations

Multiple senses

What it looks like

Not physical; an occupation or office.

How it is recognised

Handles correspondence, records and scheduling

Administrative or officer role

A secretary of state is a senior government post, another sense

Related models

is a kind of - category

clerk

is a kind of - category

white-collar worker

is related to - another occupational entry

educator

is related to - confidentiality in secretarial work

confidential adviser-advisee relation

In practice

Families and kinds

administrative and executive secretaries

honorary secretaries of societies

company secretaries

parliamentary secretaries and officers

government and party secretaries

Standards and regulation

Employment law

Company law on company secretaries

Parliamentary and organisational rules on officer roles

Failure modes and hazards

Confusing senses

Breach of confidentiality

Undervaluing administrative work

Also called

honorary secretaryFirst Secretary of the Parliament of CataloniaSecond Secretary of the Parliament of CataloniaThird Secretary of the Parliament of CataloniaFourth Secretary of the Parliament of Cataloniasecond secretarySecretary of the Legation of the Federal Republic of Central America in Englandmanagement assistantaide-de-campaccounting secretarySecond secretary of the Asamblea de MadridAide-de-Camp to the President of the Republic of FinlandChief of the Defence Staffsenior aide-de-campFirst Adjutantprivate secretary to the Popesecretary of the executive board of the Polish associationSecretary of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet of the USSRcomes dispositionumSecretary of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian UnityCounty secretaryminutes-takeradiutorSecretary of the Chamber of the King of Spainsecretary of the Institut d'Estudis Catalansyūhitsumedical secretaryprivate secretarysecretary of the revision committee of the Polish associationSecretary of the Central Executive Committee of the Azerbaijan SSRSpecial assistant to the spouse of the prime ministerSecretary of the Government of CataloniadabirSecretary of the Council of Public Instruction of the Universidad de OccidentePro-SecretarySecretary of the Junta of Development of San SalvadorRoyal SecretarySecretary of the Constituent Process and Program of PodemosSecretario de Relaciones y GobernaciónSecretario de Hacienda y Guerra

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Where this came from

wikidata · CC0 1.0

Source repository Registry entry point

Also registered as vr.tr.secretary

Drafted structure

Bundle to layer to finding to question, as the second pass will find it: 4 bundles · 8 layers · 8 findings · 16 questions.

Understand Secretary roles.

Definitions.

Roles

Roles and senses.

Roles

Roles.

  1. What are the main senses of secretary, from administrative support to organisational officers and government posts? definition
  2. Which sense is meant in this context? boundary

Duties

Duties and skills.

Duties

Duties.

  1. What duties and skills define administrative secretaries and executive assistants today? definition
  2. Which entry fits a specific role? action
Officers Officer roles.

Organisations.

Society

Honorary and company secretaries.

Society

Officers.

  1. What do honorary secretaries of societies and company secretaries do, and what legal duties apply? provenance
  2. Which entry fits company law? action

Parliament

Parliamentary secretaries.

Parliament

Parliament.

  1. What are the secretaries of a parliament or assembly, such as those of the Parliament of Catalonia, and what do they do? provenance
  2. Which entry fits a specific legislature? action
Career Careers and practice.

Practice.

Enter

Entering the profession.

Enter

Entry.

  1. How can someone become an administrative secretary or executive assistant, and which qualifications help? provenance
  2. How is the role changing with technology? provenance

Confidentiality

Confidentiality.

Confidentiality

Confidentiality.

  1. What confidentiality and data protection duties apply to secretarial work? provenance
  2. Which entry fits data protection? action
Learn History and language.

Context.

History

History of the role.

History

History.

  1. How did the secretary role develop from confidential scribes to modern administrative and officer roles, according to historians? provenance
  2. Which references are standard? provenance

Language

Titles across languages.

Language

Language.

  1. How do titles such as secretary general and first secretary translate across languages and systems? provenance
  2. Which misconceptions arise? provenance

What the second pass must settle

  • Should company secretary be a separate entry?
  • How should parliamentary roles be documented?
  • How should the government sense be split?
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