Advantages Seen In Secretarial Career

Press, Volume CII, Issue 30178, 9 July 1963, Page 15

Advantages Seen In Secretarial Career

Careers advisers and principals of Christchurch secondary schools will have the opportunity today of discussing the advantages of a secretarial career for students leaving school with Mr T. F. Paul, divisional secretary of the Chartered Institute of Secretaries. Mr Paul will also meet vocational guidance officers and members of the Canterbury branch of the institute. Mr Paul said in Christchurch last evening that the prospects for those who qualified in the institute's examinations were excellent. The qualification of associate or fellow’ would stand them in good stead in an ever-widening field of administrative activity. Positions in which the institute’s qualifications were acceptable and sought included government departments, local bodies, incorporated associations and societies, educational bodies, building societies, commercial firms and banks. The -rtitu: s examinations were officially recognised by the State Services Commission, and arrangements had been approved whereby the examinations of the- institute replaced certain internal examinations previously administered bv the commissi x 'Mr Paul said membership of the institute should appeal to commercial teachers The boy with school certificate could take the course necessary to qualify and there would be openings in commerce. and in local and government body administration available to him. For the student with uni-

versify entrance, and doing professional accountancy, secretarial practice would give a specialised background. The two were complementary, he said. The institute's examinations cover 12 subjects over a period of four years. Students register with the institute for this period, study the subjects laid down in their syllabus at technical colleges or

night schools, or through correspondence courses, then sit the examinations held in May and December each year When the examinations have been completed and the qualifying service clause of six years in the office of a publfc body satisfied, the student can be admitted as as. associate member of the institute.