Admin Assistant
45AI USED FOR45%moving to83%
THE DOOR, NOWC
THE DOOR, 20 YRSE
STARTING PAYnot published
MOAT NOT YET CLASSIFIEDA real score, but the moat is not yet classified. No claim either way.
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Admin Assistant
An admin assistant keeps an office running by handling the everyday paperwork, emails, diaries and phone calls that keep a team organised. It is a steady, people-facing job that suits anyone who likes order, gets on with others and takes quiet pride in being the person who knows where everything is.
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AI already does a real share of this work
AI is used for a real share, around 45% of the day-to-day tasks of the day-to-day tasks in this job today. We have not yet classified what, if anything, structurally protects it, so we make no claim either way about a moat: the exposure score is the measured part. Learn the tools, and build the judgement that stays human.
Career progression path
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The degree route
Courses in this career's subject area, from the live library of 35,000; every one is AI impact assessed through its actual graduate destinations.
🎓Computing and IT and a second subjectThe Open University · the card page · will AI take its jobs?£36,000 median
🎓Politics And International RelationsWest Herts College · the card page · will AI take its jobs?£29,000 median
🎓English Literature And Creative WritingWest Herts College · the card page · will AI take its jobs?£27,000 median
🎓English Literature And MediaWest Herts College · the card page · will AI take its jobs?£27,000 median
🎓European Studies with GermanThe University of Essex · the card page · will AI take its jobs?£25,000 median
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There is more than one way in
You do not have to go the university route to get here. There is an apprenticeship route into this career. There is also a vocational route that skips a degree entirely. Some employers will take you on here with no formal qualifications at all, if you can show you can do the work.
Degree subjects that lead this way
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Computing and IT and a second subjectThe Open University · DegreePolitics And International RelationsWest Herts College · DegreeEnglish Literature And Creative WritingWest Herts College · DegreeEnglish Literature And MediaWest Herts College · DegreeEnglish LiteratureWest Herts College · DegreeEuropean Studies with GermanThe University of Essex · Degree