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Welcome to the Office Administration Research Guide. This guide will help you find books, ebooks, magazine and journal articles, websites, and more that will help you research topics in this subject.
What is Office Administration?
According to the Occupatonal Outlook Handbook, Office Adminstration professionals perform routine clerical and administrative duties. They organize files, draft messages, schedule appointments, and support other staff.
Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 Edition, Secretaries and Administrative Assistants,
on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/office-and-administrative-support/secretaries-and-administrative-assistants.htm (visited May 21, 2015).
- Occupational Outlook HandbookThe Occupational Outlook Handbook (OOH) is a career resource offering information on the hundreds of occupations that provide the overwhelming majority of jobs in the United States. Each occupational profile describes the duties required by the occupation, the work environment of that occupation, the typical education and training needed to enter the occupation, the median pay for workers in the occupation, and the job outlook into the next 10 years for that occupation. Each profile is in a standard format that makes it easy to compare occupations.
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