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Telephone Operators
Keeps an office running: schedules, records and communication.
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Administrative assistants answer calls and email, manage schedules, prepare documents, keep records and support managers and teams, in every kind of workplace. Many move up to office manager or executive assistant.
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High school courses that build toward it
- Physical Education · Health and PE
Builds working with customers and clients, which this job uses.
- Foods and Culinary · Career and Technical
Builds working with customers and clients, which this job uses.
- English 10 · English
Builds reading and writing, which this job uses.
- Computer Science Principles · Computer Science
Builds computers and electronics, which this job uses.
Ranked by how much the job relies on what each course teaches, from O*NET's knowledge ratings. Your school's own courses and the counselor have the final word.
Telephone Operators on O*NET OnLine · O*NET 31.0 (U.S. Department of Labor, CC BY 4.0); BLS Employment Projections 2025.