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• a  of or relating to a secretary or to a secretary's work

• But while secretarial schools are filled, almost 20% of the new jobs are going begging.
• Most often cited are two women who displayed few secretarial skills but worked on his staff.
• At the Katharine Gibbs secretarial schools, many of the older women who enroll to refresh their secretarial skills are offered jobs before the course is over.

News & Articles

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• Carole Currie on changes for women in the workplace
  When I was growing up, the careers mentioned most often for women were teaching, nursing and secretarial. Then the world started changing. When I started writing features for the Asheville Times and then the Citizen, other doors were beginning to open for women.
  June 10, 2013 - Asheville Citizen-Times

Quotes

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• Barack Obama in ABC Online
  When he accepted the Democratic nomination before 84,000 supporters in a Denver stadium in August, Senator Obama told how his grandmother "worked her way up from the secretarial pool to middle-management, despite years of being passed over for...
• Giles Chichester in The National
  In what Mr Chichester, an MEP for South-West England, described as a "technical breach" of the rules, it was disclosed that his family's firm had received £445,000 (Dh3.2 million) of EU money since 1996 "in connection with secretarial and assistant...
• Phil Bredesen in Mid-South Farmer
  I'm pleased that USDA acted promptly on my initial request for farm assistance, and I expect federal officials will move on subsequent requests just as quickly,said Bredesen. "A secretarial disaster designation will help make more...