Basic Secretarial Skills - Reading Area Community College

Basic Secretarial Skills from Reading Area Community College is a Campus Certificate Administrative Assistant degree that prepares you for a Business career. The Basic Secretarial Skills certificate program is designed to provide graduates with the competencies necessary to obtain secretarial employment which requires foundation-level skills. The student may later apply all course work to an Associate in Applied Science degree, if desired. Upon successful completion of this program, the student should be able to: Demonstrate effective communication skills in writing and speaking in a business environment. Apply basic language skills associated with the parts of speech, sentence formations, numerical expression, capitalization, punctuation, and word division rules to business correspondence. Demonstrate proficiency in keyboarding of business letters, memos, reports, and tables at a high level of speed and accuracy. Utilize a personal computer to prepare documents using word processing, spreadsheet, and database software and the Internet. Demonstrate speed writing skills to take notes from oral dictation and produce mailable Proofread and edit typed/keyed copy, including transcription of machine dictation, with a high degree of accuracy and correctness. Transcribe from various kinds of original communication, such as handwritten copy, printed copy, and voice-recorded dictation. Apply math operations to solve fundamental business problems. View more details on Reading Area Community College . Ask your questions and apply online for this program or find other related Administrative Assistant courses.