Is being an administrative assistant easy? Are there administrative assistant jobs that don’t require you to talk to clients, just your colleagues?

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I would say it depends where you work, the field your in, and who you work for.
It requires a specific skillset, enjoying supporting other peoples successes, a strong work ethic, and dependability. I would also say you need to be able to talk to people as well as colleagues.

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What do you consider easy? I find easy jobs boring personally. Depending on the position you will have to talk to a variety of people, and in one position where I regularly talked to clients it was mostly taking information from them and relaying messages - nothing difficult.

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It really depends on the person. Where I'm at now, I find it incredibly easy and quite boring, actually. It's basically just scheduling, booking travel, and time entry. My previous AA job was for a non-profit and more like a chief if staff job tbh. There was a lot more work including budgeting and data analytics. Ioved it so much more, but I followed the money. All that being said, I found both to be easy, but at both there were others that didn't because their skill sets were just different.

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Yes! Most definitely.
I worked at a Tax/Audit/Wealth Management firm and in the 6 years I was there I think I spoke directly with 5 clients.
THEY prefer to talk directly with their clients!

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I am Capital One and and the job is very easy but you need to be outstanding with kissing lots of @$$ and I don’t have any contact with any client.

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Would not work for me. I am not about brown nosing at all so if thats whats required to move ahead at cap one, move on. Your outstanding work should be the only requirement.

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In some companies yes, in others not at all! The role and people you support play a part in that as well. I like to learn and be challenged…to easy is a bad sign to me…because of the possibility of layoffs due to redundancy…been there too!

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