PA/Secretarial (Diploma)

This diploma provides a solid foundation in essential secretarial skills. The training is hands-on and practical, ensuring you can confidently apply your new skills in the workplace.

Is This for You?

• This diploma is ideal for those new to this profession or those who want to refresh their PA/Secretarial skills.
• This diploma is ideal for those new to this profession or those who want to refresh their PA/Secretarial skills.

The skills needed for a rewarding secretarial or administrative job

• Gone are the days when being a secretary meant simply taking care of the typing, filing, and answering of phones. Today, a great Personal Assistant is central to the smooth running of any business, ensuring day-to-day activities happen in the most efficient manner. With our PA/ Secretarial Diploma, you’ll learn the essential skills to be a highly regarded Secretary or Personal Assistant, problem-solving and prioritising workloads to allow executives and managers to work more effectively.

Essential secretarial skills that employers are looking for

• If you’re keen to gain a job working as a Secretary or Personal Assistant, you’ll require excellent skills with technology, organisation, flexibility, plus strong interpersonal and communication abilities. This diploma is designed to develop your keyboarding speeds, teach you how to master the most common business software packages, and teach you excellent communication techniques.
• You’ll also be able to choose from a number of elective subjects to complement your diploma, and the skills you’ll learn are transferable across many different industries. Our PA/Secretarial Diploma will open doors for you to myriad opportunities as a highly qualified administrative professional.

What will you get in return?

• A Pitman Training diploma is one of the most prestigious training programmes you can complete from one of the most highly regarded training organisations in the world. Businesses recognise the Pitman Training name as a sign that you have been trained to the highest level. With your PA/Secretarial Diploma, you’ll have world-class skills to get a job as a highly valued, well-paid PA.

Aims and Objectives

• The Pitman Training PA/Secretarial Diploma is designed to teach you a core set of secretarial skills that employers look for in their support/admin staff.

Career Path

• As the name of this diploma suggests, with this credential on your CV, you could look to work as a Personal Assistant, Secretary, Senior Administrator, or Office Administrator. From there, you could enhance your career progression and aim for roles such as EA, VA or Office Manager. Or you could look to work in a more specialised field as a Medical Secretary or Legal Secretary.

What’s the Difference?
We offer a range of training packages in a range of subject areas and can offer blended learning opportunities to best meet your needs.

• Our courses are practical in nature and focus on a single subject and can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days.
• Diplomas are designed to give you a complete skillset mapped to a specific career path and contain a number of core and elective courses.

Centre Availability

• This diploma is offered at the following centres. Please contact the centre of your choosing for availability and additional information.