Job Prospect as an Administrator

[JeffLKS]

Is there any job advancement as an administrator? What are the future job prospects of being one? I myself was an engineering graduate and am seeking for an office job, but not as an administrator etc who does data entries work. I seek for a more specialist role.

The main idea that I wish to convey is that I couldn't find any entry level job like Sales and marketing, or HR role with a non-relevant Engineering Diploma Cert. Most I could find were those Data Entry administrator job advertisements.

In a nutshell, will an administrator progress to a specialist role in career advancement?

Originally Posted by JeffLKS

Is there any job advancement as an administrator? What are the future job prospects of being one? I myself was an engineering graduate and am seeking for an office job, but not as an administrator etc who does data entries work. I seek for a more specialist role.

The main idea that I wish to convey is that I couldn't find any entry level job like Sales and marketing, or HR role with a non-relevant Engineering Diploma Cert. Most I could find were those Data Entry administrator job advertisements.

In a nutshell, will an administrator progress to a specialist role in career advancement?

You need to be more specific on what you mean by administrative jobs. While some companies might have an administration department per se that does office paper work, most administrative matters are actually decentralized and managed individually by function in sizable corporations.

In a certain sense, most corporate and desk bound roles that are below the head of function level (as a rule of thumb, below $10,000 per month) are administration roles. They may belong to different functions like HR, Finance, Marketing etc. but essentially such roles are performing largely administration duties of that particular function.

In summary, your definition of administration is too broad for me to advise on potential career advancement. You need to be more specific on what role you are looking at. Fresh graduate roles are mostly either operations based or administration based, only exceptionally niche knowledge-based ones such as law, R&D, medical or certain forms of engineering will allow you to specialize on your first job.

Originally Posted by madgoat

You need to be more specific on what you mean by administrative jobs. While some companies might have an administration department per se that does office paper work, most administrative matters are actually decentralized and managed individually by function in sizable corporations.

In a certain sense, most corporate and desk bound roles that are below the head of function level (as a rule of thumb, below $10,000 per month) are administration roles. They may belong to different functions like HR, Finance, Marketing etc. but essentially such roles are performing largely administration duties of that particular function.

In summary, your definition of administration is too broad for me to advise on potential career advancement. You need to be more specific on what role you are looking at. Fresh graduate roles are mostly either operations based or administration based, only exceptionally niche knowledge-based ones such as law, R&D, medical or certain forms of engineering will allow you to specialize on your first job.

Thanks for insulting a whole lot of people as administrators. I’m a Corp Comms Assistant Director in a US MNC that happen to be below 10k/month, but I don’t do data entry or fill in forms for people.

While my pay is not high (5.1k/mth), the work requires knowledge and experience in preparing speeches, slides for big bosses and also running road shows engagement sessions etc. It is definitely not administration job. So what do you do in real life? Also another “administrator”?

Why need to be so desperate to do admin job for a degree holder? I thought only O level or ITE students do that.

Originally Posted by dulan

Thanks for insulting a whole lot of people as administrators. I’m a Corp Comms Assistant Director in a US MNC that happen to be below 10k/month, but I don’t do data entry or fill in forms for people.

While my pay is not high (5.1k/mth), the work requires knowledge and experience in preparing speeches, slides for big bosses and also running road shows engagement sessions etc. It is definitely not administration job. So what do you do in real life? Also another “administrator”?

No offense dude, but what you say really sound like admin…

5.1k in other MNC call executive or associate. Your company very kind to call you Assistant Director…

[JeffLKS]

Originally Posted by madgoat

You need to be more specific on what you mean by administrative jobs. While some companies might have an administration department per se that does office paper work, most administrative matters are actually decentralized and managed individually by function in sizable corporations.

In a certain sense, most corporate and desk bound roles that are below the head of function level (as a rule of thumb, below $10,000 per month) are administration roles. They may belong to different functions like HR, Finance, Marketing etc. but essentially such roles are performing largely administration duties of that particular function.

In summary, your definition of administration is too broad for me to advise on potential career advancement. You need to be more specific on what role you are looking at. Fresh graduate roles are mostly either operations based or administration based, only exceptionally niche knowledge-based ones such as law, R&D, medical or certain forms of engineering will allow you to specialize on your first job.

Hi, apologize for the extreme late reply. I don't have a specific role in Administration because i don't have a choice to decide which department I wish to be in. Even if I do have a choice, chances of finding that specific role will be difficult isn't it? Major Administration Job vacancies are all data entries, handling phone calls and ad-hoc duties.

So i am asking if such Administration role can seek career advancement in the long run.

[JeffLKS]

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Why need to be so desperate to do admin job for a degree holder? I thought only O level or ITE students do that.

Hi, sorry i am a diploma graduate, not a degree holder.

[JeffLKS]

Originally Posted by dulan

Thanks for insulting a whole lot of people as administrators. I’m a Corp Comms Assistant Director in a US MNC that happen to be below 10k/month, but I don’t do data entry or fill in forms for people.

While my pay is not high (5.1k/mth), the work requires knowledge and experience in preparing speeches, slides for big bosses and also running road shows engagement sessions etc. It is definitely not administration job. So what do you do in real life? Also another “administrator”?

Hi Corp Comms Assistant Director, is it okay to share your job description and your employment route with me?