Get the PA career of
your dreams with a Pitman Training Executive Plus Diploma
The role of a senior Executive Assistant is to provide a dynamic, efficient and fully professional service. This important and key role is both demanding and challenging and, will require confidence, accountability, flexibility as well as highly effective communication and interpersonal skills. The individual must be highly organised and have the ability to co-ordinate multiple priorities within demanding and tight timescales. The PA at this level has management responsibilities with the highest standards of integrity; is one step ahead and has the ability to effectively organise others.
The executive assistant will need to have advanced IT skills and the use of shorthand with accounting are excellent skills that will give you the extra advantage in securing the role that is highly valued, well paid, interesting and rewarding.
The Pitman Training Executive Plus Diploma will give you excellent skills to take you to the top. You will learn up to date Microsoft Office applications, get up to speed with the latest accounting packages and learn the more traditional secretarial skills including touch-typing and shorthand. In addition, you can enhance your business skills through one day seminars and specific professional training giving you everything you will need to excel in this role.
Learning these skills is easy with Pitman Training. Our tried and trusted methods are the best available. You will work at your own pace in our comfortable premises, helped by experienced tutors as required. You choose your own hours and keep the reference materials when the course is over. On completion, you will receive a Pitman Training Diploma that is recognised nationally and internationally by employers.
Successful completion of all the book-keeping courses will give the student the opportunity to achieve either FETAC and/or IAB Level 2 qualifications (additional home study is recommended).
Core Subjects
Computer Keyboard Skills
Learn how to touch type accurately, using the correct keyboard technique. This may help to reduce the risk of RSI (repetitive strain injury).
Keyboard Speed Development
Develop your typing speed to improve productivity using graded copying exercises and timed dictations. A number of stages are available, taking you up to a speed of 70 wpm.
Effective Business Communication
Learn how to communicate effectively in business by letter, email, telephone and presentation. This will cover correct use of grammar, punctuation, principles of letter writing and CV writing.
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Business Document Production
Develop skills and understanding of routine and complex business documents and the conventions used in their production and presentation.
Audio Transcription
Learn audio typing techniques to produce business documents to a high degree of accuracy and skill.
Microsoft Word
Learn word processing skills to a good business standard. This will enable you to create professional looking documents, produce tables, insert pictures and much more.
Microsoft Word Expert
Learn advanced word processing skills including mailmerge, creating graphs, creating and running macros, creating an index, table of contents and more.
Microsoft Excel
Learn spreadsheet skills to a good business standard. This course will enable you to create a spreadsheet, enter data, formulas and functions; create charts and more.
Microsoft Excel Expert
Learn advanced spreadsheet skills, covering areas such as importing and exporting data, creating and using templates, linking workbooks, data management, using analysis tools and pivot tables.
Microsoft PowerPoint
Gain competency in creating slide presentations. Areas covered include formatting, inserting tables, pictures, sound and hyperlinks; applying transition and timing effects.
Microsoft Outlook
Learn how to share, manage and schedule information electronically. Covers the use of email, electronic calendar, scheduling meetings and appointments; creating and assigning tasks and creating address lists.
Microsoft Access
Develop database skills from initial design stage. Covers the creation of tables, reports, queries and forms, relationships, wizards and more.
Microsoft Publisher
Learn desktop publishing skills to create various publications, inserting text, pictures, frames and tables.
Dreamweaver
Learn to create a website using the most popular industry standard web design program, inserting text, images, adding backgrounds, creating links and anchors, creating tables and creating frame sets.
Introduction to HTML
Learn to create a website using the programming language HTML (hypertext mark-up language).
Basic Book-keeping
Gain a clear understanding of the basic principles of book-keeping. Learn how to maintain a cash book, petty cash books and reconcile a bank statement.
Purchase Ledger
Become proficient at maintaining a manual purchase ledger.
Sales Ledger
Become proficient at maintaining a manual sales ledger.
Final Accounts I
Learn the principles of double-entry book-keeping in order to maintain a nominal ledger and extract a preliminary trial balance.
Final Accounts II
Learn how to extend the trial balance in order to prepare the final accounts of a business (profit and loss accounts and balance sheet).
Manual and Computerised Payroll (Sage QuickPay)
Learn about the Tax (PAYE) and Social Insurance (PRSI) processes required by the Irish Revenue Commissioners. These techniques can then be applied to both a manual or computerised system. In this course you will also convert your manual payroll skills to computerised payroll using Sage QuickPay, one of the most popular software programs.
Sage Line 50
Convert your manual book-keeping skills to computerised accounts using the most popular software.
Numeric Data Entry
Learn correct and efficient use of the numeric keypad.
Go …. Make A Difference!
Learn how a difference can be made both professionally and personally through self-development.
Optional Subject(s)
Teeline or Pitman 2000 Shorthand
Learn the complete theory of either shorthand system. This will enable you to take
notes at speeds of up to 70 wpm.
Elective Subjects - choose FOUR
Computer Skills
Windows
XP
Internet Skills
Office 2007 Fast Modules 1 - 3
Office 2007 Fast
Modules 4 - 6
Other
Legal Secretarial - Any module
Medical Secretarial - An Introduction
Shorthand Speed Development
Get Into …
Marketing
HR or PR
Journalism
Personal Development
Meetings & Minutes seminar
Executive PA Seminar
Book-keeping Level 2 – A Study Guide
Health & Safety Essentials
Guideline Learning Time
18
weeks full-time or 520 hours flexi study (with shorthand)
15 weeks full-time or 460 hours flexi study (without shorthand)
(full-time is based on approx 20 hours a week)
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I'm so
pleased I decided to take the time to get all the skills I
needed for my dream job! I'm now working for a Chief
Executive of a national banking institution in the City.
The Executive Plus Diploma gave me the skills to get me the
interview and my increased confidence by doing the course, got
me the job
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