What date is Secretary's Day

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

Today, almost every profession has its own personal holiday. Against this background, it would be somewhat unfair if there were no Secretary's Day. But such a holiday exists in the status of international and Russian. Let's take a closer look at the date of its celebration, customs, traditions and history.

What is this date?

Secretary's Day is both Secretary's Day, and Administrative Professionals Day, and the International Day of this speci alty.

Who celebrates the holiday? Of course, not only secretaries. This is the day of everyone on whom life depends, the efficiency of the office:

• assistants (including specialists assisting the management of firms and enterprises, bosses);
• assistant managers, directors;
• speech writers;
• stenographers;
• office managers;
• referents;
• professionals involved in office work.

What date is Secretary's Day?

This professional celebration does not have a specific date for celebration. Traditionally celebrated within the boundaries of Administrative Professionals Week, which takes place in the United States.

Example of congratulations on a holiday: "Let your responsibility be rewarded with success, attentiveness with career growth, diligence with good material rewards, devotion to a common cause with all-round recognition, incomparable personal qualities with personal happiness. Happy Secretary's Day!"

The holiday itself falls on Wednesday of the last full April week. If we turn not to the international, but to the Russian version of it, then the date in 2018 comes out on September 21 (the third Friday of the month). A professional celebration is not an official holiday either for secretaries or for all workers in general.

National holidays

We covered the celebration of the International Day of Administrative Worker. In addition to it, in a number of countries there are also their own national variants:

• Secretary's Day in Russia is celebrated on the third Friday in September.
• Third Wednesday of April in Pakistan.
• Australia celebrates professional secretarial holiday on the first Friday of May.
• In Zimbabwe it's the first Wednesday of September.

History of the holiday

Secretary's Day is a rather young holiday. It was first celebrated in 1952. It happened in the USA on the initiative of the publicist G. Klemfuss (New York).

Then the Administrative Week was held in the first week of June and had a different name - National Weeksecretaries. Secretary's Day was celebrated within its framework on Wednesday. Its former name is National Secretary's Day. The festival had several sponsors. The most serious of them is the National American Association of Secretaries.

Already in 1955, the National Week of Secretaries and Administrative Officers was moved to the last week of April, traditional for today. Its very name has also undergone a number of changes:

• Renamed Professional Secretarial Week in 1981.
• In 2000, the modern name was approved. This is Administrative Professionals Week.

Today APW (Administrative Workers Week) is a registered trademark. It belongs to the International Association of Administrative Workers.

History of the holiday in Russia

As for our country, in the Russian Federation, until recently, secretaries did not have their own day. The situation changed in 2005. Then an initiative group of workers from Moscow, Novosibirsk, Voronezh, Taganrog, Rostov-on-Don, with the participation of the editors of the magazine "Secretary.ru", proposed to allocate a holiday on the third Friday of every September.

How is the holiday celebrated?

Congratulations on Secretary's Day can be different. Basically, administrative workers are congratulated by their immediate supervisors. It can be either a verbal wish for labor success, or a diploma, gratitude, a memorable gift or even a bonus.

In many companiesthere is a tradition of organizing receptions and banquets in honor of the celebration. And on the working Secretary's Day, managers try to burden their subordinates as little as possible with the duties. There is a high probability of a festive end of working hours.

Important about the profession

Let's meet a modern specialist:

• The job of an administrative secretary is mainly recruiting people under 30 years old, assistant management - up to 40 years old.
• Today the secretary is not a purely female profession. Most often, the employer is not worried about the gender of the employee. Moreover, executive assistants are mostly men.
• In large companies, two secretaries usually work - a clerk and an assistant manager. Depending on the activity, a referent-translator is also needed.
• Office manager and secretary today is the face of the company. It should show customers and partners that they are welcome, evoke positive emotions.
• The secretary is obliged not only to successfully cope with his work, but also to help the leader.
• A successful specialist is stress-resistant, sociable, has a good sense of humor and is fluent in business communication skills with people.

Interesting facts

Having de alt with the number of Secretary's Day, we should learn a little more about this profession:

• In ancient Rome, a secretary was traditionally called a confidant, a person entrusted with keeping secrets.
• First female secretariesbegan their work in 1880. This was due to the invention of the typewriter. Before that, only men worked as secretaries. But in the 20th century, the profession became almost entirely female.
• Today, a secretary is one of the five most sought-after jobs in the world.
• The modern specialist not only answers the phone and is the "walking notebook" of the boss. This is a highly qualified employee with a decent work experience, on which the entire life of the office actually rests.
• Today, more than 1 million secretaries, assistant directors, and office managers work in the Russian Federation. Their working hours are 8-12 hours.
• The profession is far from modern. It is known for certain about its existence in the 19th century. Such employments as provincial and collegiate secretary were introduced. In the Table of civil ranks, they took 10th and 12th place out of fourteen possible. The requirements for the secretary then were not the same as in modern reality - the employee was only required to write correctly.
• According to some sources, the date of foundation of the profession in Russia is February 27, 1720. However, back in the 15th century, the work of people keeping business records was popular.

• We owe the appearance of the profession in our country to Peter the Great. He even elevated her to a separate rank. Secretaries then worked for the benefit of the largest factories of their time.
• The first professional courses for secretaries opened in Imperial Russia in 1868 in Kharkov.
• In 1884 in ourcountry issued as many as 8 publications dedicated to secretarial business.
• The profession was quite popular in the 19th century. But in 1925, secretaries were leveled with messengers. A new round of popularity of the profession in the USSR came in the 70s of the last century.

American film actress Jay Fonda once remarked:

An office can do without a director, but it will be lost without a secretary.

It really is. On Secretary's Day, we congratulate responsible, highly qualified and experienced employees.