SECRETARIAL TRAINING

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP90G00993R000300020008-4
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 23, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 20, 2012
• Sequence Number: 8
• Publication Date: February 11, 1986
• Content Type: MEMO

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11 February 1986
MEMORANDUM FOR:
FROM:
SUBJECT:
Secretarial Training
After some discussion, the secretaries in DFG agreed that the
following courses should be included in any list of necessary
training:
Agency/Directorate/Office Orientation 1l, J ' - ' `' "
Level I:
Essentials of grammar and punctuation
Proofreading
Agency correspondence procedures
Office etiquette (especially telephone conduct)
Wang and VM Word Processing
Briefings in specific areas of assignment (such as administrative/
personnel procedures, PAR workshop, T&A workshop). One of our
secretaries is in the COMSEC branch, and she said that a short
workshop or briefing dealing with COMSEC matters would have been a
tremendous help because there are so many terms with which she was
unfamiliar. Our Group (as is true of most offices in OIT) deals
with extremely technical matters, and in order to adequately
proofread memos and reports, we need to be familiar with the
subject matter.
Office management and supervisory skills
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Agency regulations and legal statutes
Government-wide orientations
Current affairs
Level IV:
Oral presentation techniques
Advanced writing skills
Advanced word processing
Advanced management and supervisory skills
Many of these areas are covered in the proposed training
agenda. There was some concern here that the proposed courses may
be too general in nature. A secretarial curriculum might include
the general as well as the specific and directed subject matter.
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