What is correct between administrative assistant and administrative assistance?

Answer 1

an admin officer is like a personnel and logistics officer in one while the admin assistant is more of a secretary.

Answer 2

Clerical work includes assignments that can typically be performed by most workers in a modern organization; although many may not have the time to do so. Assignments like typing, reception and email customer support represent a few clerical tasks that most everyone in a business can handle if need be; they typically don't require a specialized skill set. However, clerical skills still require someone with accuracy and professionalism to carry out the assignments in a successful manner.

Administrative work on the other hand typically requires a specialized skill set. Assignments needed to run the administrative aspect of a company successfully include: bookkeeping, Human Resource duties and database creation and maintenance to name a few. For those who work as freelancers, I believe these distinctions are extremely important; as you want to not only charge your clients accordingly but get paid accordingly. No client should expect to pay you the same rate for typing a few pages as they would for handling their hiring or bookkeeping. Keep the difference in mind when setting your rates as a freelancer and both you and your clients will be happy with the pay received in relation to the assignment/job performed.

Answer 3

There is no difference, in either pay or responsibility. During the 1970s, when the feminist movement was just starting to gather momentum, one of the ideas being attacked was the concept of the office secretary as a minimum-wage female gofer or Gal Friday for the higher-paid, always-male executive.

To escape that stigma, the political correctness movement of the 1980s rebranded the position of secretary as that of administrative assistant; the idea was to redefine the expected duties (no more, "Go make me coffee!"), attract more men to the position, and redefine the pay scale more equitably based on how much work assistants actually do.

The idea has had some success, though probably less because of the name change and more because these days management has a better understanding of how much work their assistants have taken off their shoulders.