Summer 08 Survey Results Report
Read our survey results of more than 6,500 Irish office professionals. Find out just how qualified, happy and ethical you all are! We also asked just how far would you go to get a day off, whether it was for an interview or a duvet day. The results are interesting and some quite inventive!
Gender / Age Stats
Are more males entering the office profession? Last time we surveyed we had a 90/10 breakdown but 2008 shows an increase of males entering the profession.
84% Female
16% Male
The highest proportion
are in the 25-35 year age bracket, and overall 75% are under 35 years.
Roles
The duties of an office administrator are ever expanding in the workforce with 20% describing their role as senior administrator as opposed to a more specialist admin role.See the results below
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Data Entry Clerk
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5%
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Office Manager
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7%
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Junior Administrator
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15%
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Senior Administrator
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30%
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Finance Administrator
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8%
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PA Executive
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8%
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Receptionist/Switchboard
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12%
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HR Executive
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2%
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Sales Support Administrator
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7%
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Legal secretary
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4%
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Medical secretary
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2%
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Salary
The most popular salary bracket is €20,000-€30,000 with over 50% of respondants in this bracket. Only 1% earn over the €50,000 mark
Highly qualified
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52% of responants have a 3rd level qualification along with an additional 14% of
respondants with an
ECDL certificate
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Happy at Work
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A challenging administration role can lead to a very happy career and judging from
the replies to our next question many of you are very satisfied in your career choice
in office administration.
38% Are very happy with their career in administration
19% can take or leave their career in administration
Only 7% are not happy and would like a career change
A further 22% are looking to start a career in administration
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Office Angel of Office Devil?
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Well it’s official!, the Irish office worker is definitely a true professional. We asked a few
tongue in cheek questions to find out just how loyal and dedicated to your job you really
are and here are some of the results
Q. The boss is away on his annual leave, just what would you get up to
while he is away.
Over 90% of respondants would take extra workload on and extra hours if necessary to
help manage while the boss is way. One in ten are devils, stating they would take longer
lunches or surf the net more, which statistically isn’t bad.
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Q. You go out late on a school night and the alarm goes off for work, Do you?
90% of replies would be more likely to go to work and suffer rather than fake an unexpected
appointment or call in sick.
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Q. You have landed an interview for your dream job. Do you?
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Sick Leave
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We asked for the most inventive excuses ever used and heard for missing work and
loved all the reponses.
We have compiled a top 25 here in the office although many
more were hilarious. Click
here to view them all.
Our bonus prize for the funniest and most inventive excuse heard goes to
“ One of the lads rang into work to say he’d be late due to a wheel of an airplane
fell on to his roof, and he was waiting for someone from Dublin airport to come out
and collect it."
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