what should a good secretary be?
if you want to apply for this post, what should you do ?
what address should you put on your envelope?
what is a secretary? Is she the person who takes do shorthand while her boss is dictating and then transcribes and types it up? The answer is"No" that is the person who we call a shorthand typist. But a secretary does a lot more than that. Her duties include such things as handling in corning mail, receiving visitors, dealing with callers, planning meetings or arranging conferences, planning business trips, and even fetch- ing her boss's lunch-time sandwiches,Mn addition, she may have to deal with her boss's private engagements is almost impossible to listoll the duties that a secretary may have to do, and even more difficult, tist the qualities that she needs in her work. lf you look at the advertisements for instance, the one below-you will see what employers expect their secretaries to do. Each advertisement also tells the order of importance of these various duties. The important thing to remember, it seems, is that secretaries should be prepared to turn their hand to anything, and to do so cheerfully