Administrative Office Technology
Are you looking for a way to advance in the business world? If so, then you need to make yourself more familiar with modern office technology. The need for employees who can operate, maintain and repair office technology continues to grow and will continue to grow for the foreseeable future. Jumpstart your career with an Administrative Office Technology Associate's Degree and always be in demand throughout the business world. Available at Dickson City, Hazleton, Pottsville, and Sunbury.
The McCann School of Business and Technology’s Associate Degree in Administrative Office Technology offers the chance to obtain the skills needed to work with modern office technology in a business setting. The students who obtain an Administrative Office Technology Associate's Degree will be trained to work in a wide array of businesses and industries providing support and knowledge on operating office equipment. An Administrative Office Technology Associate's Degree offers students the information required to work in a modern office setting providing a valuable and needed service in today's high-tech office environment.
In addition, the program provides extensive and in-depth course training for an entry-level career in general office support in business offices. Our classes help students obtain valuable hands-on experience with popular software programs as well as popular business and accounting applications. McCann School’s Administrative Office Technology training program helps students develop important qualities and traits that employers look for in office professionals, such as the ability to take charge and share responsibility, make intelligent and logical decisions, effectively collaborate with others and work independently.
We teach our graduates the different skills that allow them to thrive in an office environment, including basic and fundamental office software, interpersonal and communication abilities, typing skills, office support and writing basics. Our classes help students learn:
- The basic, every day operations of an office environment
- How to effectively communicate with other employees, clients and customers
- Important and valued skills, traits or abilities that employers look for during the hiring process
- How to work well independently and how to collaborate and enlist the help of others when balancing certain tasks and projects
- Various software programs that office workers use on a regular basis to perform important functions
Once a student graduates with an Administrative Office Technology Associate's Degree, he or she will have the skills required for employment in various business fields using modern office technology. Some of the skills companies are looking for include:
- Business Law Skills
- Spreadsheet Creation Skills
- Computer Programming Skills
- Word Processing Skills
- Office Procedure Skills
- Office Management Skills
- Document Creation Skills
- Document Management Skills
- Transcription Skills
- Business Economics Skills
- Employee Relations Skills
- Organizational Behavior Skills
Graduates with an Administrative Office Technology degree may pursue the following career opportunities in the government, health, advertising, marketing, nonprofit, entertainment, engineering, health care or business industries in the following career positions:
- Administrative assistants
- Executive secretaries
- General office managers