About this diploma
With Pitman’s executive assistant training, you can enjoy a rewarding and successful career. You will learn how to properly manage and organise the daily duties of an executive. Upon completion of this diploma, you will have the skills to be a highly-valued and well-paid Personal or Executive Assistant.
Get a Job as a Highly Efficient Personal Assistant
Do you thrive working under pressure? Do you have exceptional organisation skills? How about keen attention to detail? If so, the Executive PA Diploma is the ideal training option for you.
Personal assistant courses will enable you to combine your existing personal skills with practical business skills. Thus, you will become an asset to any company.
With your diploma, you will have everything you need to work in the highly demanding and challenging role of Executive PA. Or, you can find employment as an Executive Assistant.
Gaining an executive assistant certification is a sure way to make your CV stand out. It shows that you have the proficiency to handle any task. This demonstrable qualification lets executives know that they can rely on you.
In your career, you will use the latest software to plan schedules and take minutes. You will also manage office requests and other duties. Plus, you will gain insight into how an organisation runs at a senior level.
The Essential Skills You Need to Get the Job and Succeed
As a regarded Executive PA, you’ll act as a life organiser to the senior management and company directors. You will anticipate their needs and ensure everything runs smoothly and efficiently. Typical duties will include planning and organizing the schedule, taking meeting notes, managing expense reimbursement, internal and external communication, and more.
Our Executive PA Diploma will give you a broad range of skills to help you stand out and get the job. With your complete skill set, you will always be one step ahead.
In personal assistant courses, you will learn up-to-date Microsoft Office applications. Also, you will get familiar with the latest accountancy packages. Further, learn or refine traditional secretarial skills including touch typing and audio transcription.
You can also choose from four elective subjects to complement your core skills. Electives include shorthand, marketing and bookkeeping, to name a few. You can choose to study online or in one of our training centres.
What will you get in return?
A Pitman Training diploma is one of the most prestigious courses you can take. In fact, Pitman is one of the most highly regarded training organisations in the world. All our programmes have a reputation for the highest quality of learning. Rest assured our executive assistant courses are of the highest calibre.
With your Executive PA Diploma, you’ll have world-class skills to get a job as a valued, well-paid Personal or Executive Assistant.
Aims and Objectives
Our Executive PA Diploma will give you a broad range of skills to help you stand out and get the job. With executive assistant training, you will always be one step ahead.
As a regarded Executive PA, you’ll act as a life organiser to the senior management and company directors. You will anticipate their needs and ensure everything runs smoothly and efficiently.
Courses Included
Effective Business Communication
This excellent course will raise your game when it comes to business communication skills, which is often top of the list of qualities demanded by employers.
Typaz
In just 25 hours speeds of 20-40+ words per minute are perfectly achievable, even if you have little prior experience. Comprising 10 lessons, you’ll also receive guidance on ergonomics, technique and accuracy.
alternative Typaz Professional
For those needing high proficiency at touchtyping and keyboard skills. The course takes up to 42 hours and includes the alpha-numeric keys and high-end learning materials.
Word
Our Microsoft Word course is designed to provide you with the essential skills you will need to be proficient in Word, in a work environment, in as short a time as possible.
Word Expert
This training course in Microsoft Word will propel your Word skills forward to an advanced level. Over several lessons, you’ll become confident in a range of Word’s more sophisticated features.
Excel
Microsoft Excel is the world’s most popular spreadsheet program. This course is suitable for beginner to intermediate level.
Over 10 self-paced lessons you’ll learn how to format your spreadsheet to best display your information, handle simple and complex formulas, insert charts, learn how to insert functions such as IFERROR and much much more.
Excel Expert
Our Excel Expert level course will provide you with the knowledge and skills to use this popular spreadsheet programme to an advanced level. You will study a series of self-paced lessons you’ll learn how to perform tasks such as conditional formatting, recording and running macros, working with pivot tables and using statistical functions.
PowerPoint
Our comprehensive PowerPoint training course will help you get to grips with this popular presentation software. Learning with us will teach you how to produce exciting presentations for effective communication in business.
Outlook
This flexible study Outlook course takes you through everything you need to use this popular email system as a work tool, from navigation and views through contacts and appointments, to tasks and folders.
Audio Transcription Level 1
Audio Transcription is a valuable skill to gain, with applications in many industry sectors. This course will help you learn how to operate audio transcribing equipment and become proficient in document transcription.
alternative Marketing Essentials
Over four lessons you’ll cover topics such as understanding what a marketing plan is, how to carry out appropriate research, how websites are designed to market a company, effective advertising and the four P’s of marketing products.
Event Management Essentials
Learn some tricks of the trade and really get to grips with event project management to ensure your events are always ones people are talking about for all the right reasons.
Successful Meetings and Minutes
If you work as a Secretary, Administrator, PA, EA or Office Manager for instance, your role may involve taking notes or minutes at meetings.
alternative Meetings and Minutes Seminar
This one-day tutor-led seminar is one of our most popular seminars ideal for anyone involved in organising meetings and taking notes at those meetings. You'll learn how to prepare ahead of the meeting, how to take effective minutes and work effectively post-meeting to maximise your effectiveness and help manage your time effectively.
Time Management
Time management training increases your productivity and efficiency - and this is the perfect time management course for anyone who wants to get more done in less time.
alternative Different Leadership Attributes & Skills
If you are new to management, looking for promotion or to broaden your opportunities, this course will give you key insights into successful leadership and how to make the most of your own leadership attributes.
Instagram for Business
This course will teach you what you need to know about Instagram, the popular image-sharing platform, and how it can help your business with its marketing.
alternative Facebook for Business
Learn how to use Facebook to promote and market your organisation. This course looks at how businesses can maximise their social media presence on this social media platform.
Elective Courses
In addition to the core courses, you also choose four additional elective courses. Below is a list of recommended courses but there is a wider list available. Please speak to a Course Advisor for full details of how best to tailor this Diploma to your requirements.
Legal Secretary - An Introduction to Irish Law
This course will help you gain valuable insight and practical experience of the role and responsibilities of a Legal Secretary. You’ll work through practical lessons and look at the legal office, including practitioners and support staff. You'll go on to examine civil and criminal law, the court system and how legislation happens. This course is applicable to students studying in Ireland.
HR Essentials in Ireland
HR Essentials is an entry-level HR training course. Through a series of self-paced lessons you'll learn essential knowledge on area such as recruiting new staff, employment contracts, salary processing and maternity rights.
Payroll - Manual & Computerised
Pitman Training Ireland is delighted to bring you this comprehensive Payroll training course, which provides a thorough introduction to Payroll Principles in the Manual Section, and in the Computerised Section you create real life payroll scenarios using Sage Micropay software.
Bookkeeping - Module 1
People with strong bookkeeping skills are always in demand. This course is designed to give you an advantage over others with less experience, teaching you double-entry bookkeeping.
Sage 50 Accounts
Sage 50 Accounts will equip you with the skills you need to get a good job in an accounts department, or to work for yourself by offering accounting administration services to local firms.
Teeline Fast Shorthand
This course will take you from novice to a Pitman Teeline shorthand speed of 40 words per minute. Beginning with the basics we’ll lead you gently into shorthand Teeline style step-by-step.
Health and Safety Essentials
Unlike many other health and safety training courses this is a flexible study course so you have the freedom to study whenever suits you. The interactive e-learning system makes this an extremely simple and useful health and safety course.
WordPress for Business
This course is specifically designed for those wishing to learn how to create a business-focused website. You’ll learn about designing the site and how to develop and enhance it.
Professional Receptionist Essentials
The Professional Receptionist Essentials course has been designed to give people the chance of becoming the best receptionist they can be.
Marketing Essentials
Over four lessons you’ll cover topics such as understanding what a marketing plan is, how to carry out appropriate research, how websites are designed to market a company, effective advertising and the four P’s of marketing products.
Medical Terminology
This course helps you learn commonly used medical terminology across a wide range of disciplines. Upon completion, you’ll obtain the Pitman Training certificate in Medical Terminology, which is widely recognised by hospitals, clinics, and surgeries throughout Ireland.
Access
An understanding of how to utilise Microsoft Access to its best is a highly worthwhile skill to have at your command. This is a popular database application that is widely used across many employment sectors.
Pre-Requisites
You don’t need to have gained any specific experience or qualifications before starting this diploma programme.
Finance Options
Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: -
Self-Funded:
- Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;
- You could opt to pay upfront.
Company Funded:
Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.
What we can help with:
- Providing a comprehensive training programme outlining learning outcomes
- Tailored personnel letters
- Communication with finance departments to arrange payment options (upfront or payment plan*).
* Terms and Conditions apply. Speak to a Course Advisor for full information on the options available to you.
Career Path
The executive assistant diploma is one of our most popular diplomas for anyone wanting to work as a PA. Courses cover a wide range of topics, so progression options are wide. You could opt to add some niche skills, such as social media or bookkeeping, to take on more responsibility. Or you can progress further to work as a Virtual Assistant.
