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The career I chose when I came to job corp and saw all the programs they had, was office assistant career and work in a office for my career goal. I chose this because every since I was very little, I always liked using the computer. Sometimes I am very quiet but I still like talking to people too and being a office assistant, I will get to use computers everyday and get to talk to people because I will be working in a office with lot of people coming in and out and I will be answering the telephone and taking messages.
You don’t have to necessary go to college to become a office assistant or get a job as a office assistant. With the training and certification I am getting at job corp, I will be able to get a job in my career field.. I know not a lot of who have jobs as office assistant but they did not go to school. Getting an education and getting certified is important to me because I want to make a lot of money. One of the websites I looked at talked about how you can go to college and get a one year certificate or a two year degree in office assistant. I want to go to college and do the two year degree. You can go on to a …show more content…

If it weren’t for office assistants, many offices could not operate. Some of the things they do are, answer the phone and forward calls; get the mail and deliver it to people in the office; do research and look up information on the internet, send out emails, copy and fax information, keep up with the office supplies and make orders for office supplies, make sure all the computers and office equipment are working or call someone to fix them, type letters and memos, types office reports and other things your boss would give you. My teacher at job corp has taught me a lot of these skills that I will need when I go to work as a office assistant. Since I have my IC3 certification that will show employers that I have good computer and technology

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