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Secretary (General)
OFO Code: 412101
Last checked 3 October 2026
1. Occupation identity
- OFO code
- 412101
- Occupation
- Secretary (General)
- Classification
- OFO 2021
- Major group
- CLERICAL SUPPORT WORKERS
- Unit group
- 4121 · Secretaries (General)
Official description
Secretaries (general) use typewriters, personal computers or other word-processing equipment to transcribe correspondence and other documents, check and format documents prepared by other staff, deal with incoming and outgoing mail, screen requests for meetings or appointments, and perform a variety of administrative support tasks.
More official OFO detail
Specialisations: Appointments Officer, Advisory Officer Cabinet Office, Aide De Camp
- Organizing and supervising filing systems
- Scanning, recording and distributing mail, correspondence and documents
- Using various computer software packages including spreadsheets to provide administrative support
- Dealing with routine correspondence on their own initiative
- Dealing with incoming or outgoing mail
- Screening requests for meetings or appointments and helping to organize meetings
- Screening and recording leave and other staff-members' entitlements
- Checking, formatting and transcribing correspondence, minutes and reports from dictation, electronic documents or written drafts to conform to office standards, using typewriter, personal computer or other word processing equipment
2. Demand status
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3. Salary evidence
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7. Industry, sector and provincial context
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10. Sources for this page
- DHET Organising Framework for Occupations (OFO 2021) · Planned
- DHET Occupations in High Demand · Planned
- Critical Skills List · Planned
- QCTO qualifications and occupational certificates · Planned
- Stats SA Quarterly Labour Force Survey · Planned
- SETA Sector Skills Plans / hard-to-fill vacancy tables · Planned