About Personal Assistants
An organization to run smoothly like a well oiled machine needs able employees and one of the important cogs in that machine is a personal assistant. They perform a variety of clerical and administrative duties which help an organization to run efficiently. In the days gone by a personal assistant used to take a lot of dictations and type out those dictations for seniors, managers and executives and answer telephones for them. The age of computers has altered many of these things and seniors and managers nowadays answer their own telephones and keyboard in their own data and word processing leaving a lot of time free for personal assistants to pursue different jobs. These personal assistants now may look after a number of executives where before they used to be secretaries ton only a single boss.
To assist them in their work personal assistants use various kinds of equipment such as fax machines, photocopiers, scanners, telephone systems, cell phones and videoconferencing machines. The computer has become the most important equipment in the life of a personal assistant as they are doing many of the tasks which were done by managers and other professionals in their daily work. They prepare presentations and spreadsheets, manage database, keyboard reports, correspondence, documents making the use of desktop publishing software and digital graphics. Now many of the managers and other professionals are taking up many of the duties which were traditionally performed by a personal assistant, such as answering the telephone and keyboarding their own correspondence and other data.