I am learning spreadsheets and database?

at college, however today, my tutor came to me and asked me to fill in sort of a c.v with what courses I'd completed there and my ambitions etc, this has got me into thinking I may get a good job some day. My question is this; what sort of people are employers looking for. I want to be a receptionist or work in admin but I am returning to work after having kids. Do they prefer younger folk

I am learning spreadsheets and database?
They don't necessarily prefer younger people (you don't state your age?). A lot of really young people (i.e. 16-25) only enter those careers as a stop gap, or because they don't know what else they want to do - whereas you have actually made the effort to train in the career and have clearly CHOSEN to do it; rather than drifting into it.





A good route into admin adn secretarial work is to join a few temping agencies. I joined one during my 4 month summer holiday as a student, and consequently landed a 3 month temp job as a legal secretary - even though I'd previously had no experience! Didn't have a clue what I was doing! But I had the computer knowledge already and learnt the rest as I went along. I'm sure I would not have gotten the job if I'd just applied for it the usual way - as I know that they were looking for someone with previous experience. If I wasn't going back to Uni, I could have stayed there. So some temp jobs do roll on and you could find permanent work this way.





Don't let age be an issue; because it usually isn't in the admin field!





xx Emmie
Reply:depends on the organisation





if its a young gynamic company then probalby yes they want younger people with no commitments





alot of Companies would consider you a safe employee, as you want the work, your responsible %26amp; have responsibilities, alot is down to attitude as well as qualifications





a good way to start admin is through temping jobs ..
Reply:Spreadsheets and Databases are useful things to know, It also helps on what you know in these parts as well.





Try for mainly Sales Admin jobs, It will be a good start, And age wont come into it really unless you are like 3 days off retirement age.





Just remember some employers cant even use the =sum(B1:B12) formulas. So the more of those handly little bits you know the better.


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Good luck
Reply:I agree, staffing companies work FOR you - their job is to find you a job and make sure you keep one, that's how they make their money :) The more computer literate you are, the better, that's what most of them look for