Office and Administrative Support

The professional outlook in this field is strongest for those professionals who choose to specialize. For instance, while roughly 90% of administrative assistants do work providing direct service to clients and customers, “service” here means work in industries from healthcare to education to retail.

It’s for this reason that having a successful career in Office & Administrative Support is somewhat more complicated than it might seem—Office and Administration is a tremendously broad industry that has many different facets to it.

However, those many facets are what make it such a promising choice: whether you’re drawn to the job of running a hotel front desk, or work doing medical billing and support, or to work as a brokerage clerk, you can get the training and experience you need to stake out your place in that little corner of the industry.

In a nutshell, office administration is the profession for people who can both see how an office could run more smoothly and are inclined to get in their and do the work to make it happen. Both the brain and the guts, in other words. If you want to break into a profession that’s interesting to you and offers rewarding work, getting the training and certification for administrative work in that industry will help you get going.