What Is Secretarial Experience?

Secretarial experience is the amount of time someone has spent, working as a Secretary. Think for a moment about the person in the school office, who helps the principal. This person answers the phone, types letters for the principal, calls your parents when you go to office, because you are ill. This person, also makes copies of letters, notices, sometimes collects money for school supplies, gives you a band aid when you scratch your finger and sometimes a hug when you get hurt. Now, these are just a few of the things this person does. This person is the School Secretary and all of the work you see this person doing is secretarial work, and it is work experience. So let's say this person has worked in your school in the principals office for ten years, then leaves.

If, this person goes somewhere else, and applies for a position as a secretary, the interviewer would perhaps ask, Do you have any secretarial experience? and the answer would be. Yes, I have ten years of Secretarial Experience working in a local school office.

Sometimes students, especially in high school, get a job in the school office helping the secretary. Perhaps the job is to help pay some of the school fees, the family cannot afford. This person would be getting secretarial experience under the supervision of the School Secretary, and could later use this information, on an application for a secretarial position.