Data on the critical and distinctive skills necessary for those working in the General Administrative Assistant & Secretarial Science field from the Bureau of Labor Statistics. General Administrative Assistant & Secretarial Science majors need many skills, but most especially Reading Comprehension. The revealed comparative advantage (RCA) shows that General Administrative Assistant & Secretarial Science majors need more than the average amount of Service Orientation, Quality Control Analysis, Management of Material Resources, Management of Financial Resources, Operation Monitoring, Time Management, Programming, Coordination, Active Listening, Management of Personnel Resources, Reading Comprehension, Social Perceptiveness, Speaking, Writing, Monitoring, Critical Thinking, Negotiation, Technology Design, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Active Learning, Persuasion, Operation and Control, Systems Analysis, Mathematics, Systems Evaluation, Operations Analysis, Instructing, Learning Strategies, Science, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing.
These two visualizations, one a radial chart and one a bar chart, show the same information, a rating of how necessary the following skills are for General Administrative Assistant & Secretarial Science majors. Toggle between "value" and "RCA" to see the absolute rating of that skill (value) and the revealed comparative advantage (RCA), or how much greater or lesser that skill's rating is than the average. The longer the bar or the closer the line comes to the circumference of the circle, the more important that skill is. The importance of Service Orientation is very distinctive for majors, but the Reading Comprehension, Active Listening, Speaking, Writing, Service Orientation, Critical Thinking, Time Management, Monitoring, Social Perceptiveness, Coordination, Active Learning, Judgment and Decision Making, Complex Problem Solving, Management of Personnel Resources, Negotiation, Instructing, Persuasion, Systems Analysis, Learning Strategies, Systems Evaluation, Mathematics, Management of Material Resources, Quality Control Analysis, Operations Analysis, Management of Financial Resources, Operation Monitoring, Programming, Technology Design, Operation and Control, Science, Equipment Selection, Installation, Equipment Maintenance, Troubleshooting, and Repairing are the three most important skills for people in the field.