Tips for Entry
In school, volunteer to take on clerical or bookkeeping tasks either with a school club or in the school office.
After high school, consider a work-study program that combines earning your college or associate's degree and on-the-job training with a local business.
Once you have some clerical experience, find an entry-level job as an administrative assistant or similar position either through contacting the personnel offices of individual firms, checking out your college career services office, reading the help wanted ads, or applying to a temporary ("temp") employment service.
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- Accountants
- Arbitrators
- Audit and Assurance Accountants
- Auditors
- Automotive Dealership Owners
- Billing Clerks
- Bookkeeping and Accounting Clerks
- Budget Analysts
- Business Continuity Planners
- Business Development Managers and Directors
- Business Intelligence Analysts
- Business Managers
- Buyers
- Career and Employment Counselors
- Career and Employment Technicians
- Chief Customer Officers
- Chief Executive Officers
- Chief Financial Officers
- Chief Information Officers
- Chief Information Security Officers
- Chief Restructuring Officers
- Chief Revenue Officers
- Chief Robotics Officer
- Chief Sustainability Officers
- Chief Trust Officers
- Client Services Managers
- Collection Workers
- Community Health Program Coordinators
- Compliance Managers
- Continuous Improvement Managers
- Corporate Climate Strategists
- Corporate Community Relations Directors
- Corporate Lawyers
- Corporate Librarians
- Cost Estimators
- Credit Analysts
- Cultural Advisers
- Customer Service Directors
- Customer Service Representatives
- Customer Success Managers
- Customs Brokers
- Data Entry Clerks
- Decision Scientists
- Digital Workplace Experience Engineers
- Directors of Corporate Sponsorship
- Directors of Security
- Directors of Volunteers
- Document Management Specialists
- Economists
- Employment Firm Workers
- Entrepreneurs
- Ethical Sourcing Officer
- Event Planners
- Executive Recruiters
- Export-Import Specialists
- Financial Analysts
- Financial Consultants
- Financial Institution Officers and Managers
- Financial Institution Tellers, Clerks, and Related Workers
- Forensic Accountants and Auditors
- Fraud Examiners, Investigators, and Analysts
- Health Data Analysts
- Human Resources Consultants
- Human Resources Managers
- Industrial Traffic Managers
- Information Assurance Analysts
- Information Security Analysts
- Information Technology Infrastructure Engineers
- Internet Consultants
- Internet Executives
- Internet Security Specialists
- Internet Store Managers and Entrepreneurs
- Internet Transaction Specialists
- Labor Union Business Agents
- Legal Operations Specialists
- Loss Prevention Managers
- Management Analysts and Consultants
- Marketing Managers
- Military Recruiters
- Mobile Software Developers
- Payroll Directors
- Personnel and Labor Relations Specialists
- Product Designers
- Professional Organizers
- Project Managers
- Proposal Managers
- Purchasing Agents
- Receptionists
- Regulatory Affairs Managers
- Regulatory Affairs Specialists
- Retail Business Owners
- Retail Managers
- Sales Managers
- Sales Representatives
- Secretaries
- Software Application Developers
- Space Tourism Managers
- Statisticians
- Stenographers
- Stock Clerks
- Strategy Managers
- Tax Managers
- Temporary Workers
- Traffic Managers
- Truck Drivers
- Typists and Word Processors
- User Experience Designers
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