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Sheridan develops new secretary A changing world automation Womens liberation many things have combined to alter the role of the secretary from that of the shorthand typist to that of the administrative assistant or executory Its at the stage where oneninth of the working population of North America are secretaries and the most horrible thing imaginable Is if all secretaries on the continent went on strike The National Secretaries Association has been forced to redefine the word secretary for the seventies The new definition is A secretary shall be defined as an executive assistant who possesses a mastery of office skills who demonstrates the ability to assume res ponsibility without direct supervision who exercises initiative and Judgment and who makes decisions within the scope of assigned authority Office skills responsibility decision making these an attitude Sheridan College hopes to Instill In its secretarial students At the same time the ability to get along with other people was the quality for which Rockefeller was willing to pay the earth Realising this Sheridan Is If a human relations course In its Secretarial erldan Model Office sl Graduating students In Executive Legal and Medical Secretarial Studies operate a model office on each Sheridan campus Its good realistic training of what to expect In an office explains Avanett supervisor of the model office The office houses a variety of business equipment and students may be asked to perform any secretarial duty Its like a real office says Verlyn Francis second year Executive Secretarial student You work Theres a lot of confidential work done in the model office for faculty and staff and the girls have to realize it is confidential says Mrs Scherer In this way the girls develop a sense of responsibility and independence And they have to get along with strangers as In a real Job Although the model offices have been set up to deal with work lor faculty and staff students have under taken some work at a small fee for organizations in the community Word processing Sheridan has been training all graduating students to operate automatic typewriters for the past few years However college officials hope to offer word processing as a separate subject to secretarial students la the near future The Dartnell Corporation says the average cost of a business letter in was JO Big business has found a method of reducing this cost to Its called word processing and It cant be ignored The dictator uses remotecontrol dictating units to feed input to the WP system An automatic type writer such as the IBM Magnetic Tape Sekctrlc Typewriter ST or the Magnetic Card Executive Typewriter both available at Sheridan for student training becomes the output At the time of creating a rough draft the typist creates a magnetic tape of the material If she strikes a wrong key she simply backspaces and types over her error Simultaneously she automatically corrects the tape so that after the rough draft is completed she sets the machine on automatic and the machine produces perfect copy at the rate of She may stop the playback to make insertions or Iterations In Germany they emphasize repetitive letters or paragraphs and they have built a whole profession of text programmers who prepare canned text Clause tapes can be bought for most common business situations and text Is automatically typed out when needed It has been suggested that as a result of word processing be specialization in the secretarial field Into Word Processors or Correspondence Secretaries and Administrative Recipe for a medical secretarial career Take one individual full of ambition Add a little knowledge of medical terminology anatomy and physiology and firstaid A cupful of typing skills A pinch of determination and willpower Mix well Bake for two years In a moderatelyheated college The result la one excellent medical secretary prepared for a challenging career In this chosen profession This is the recipe Sheridan College uses to produce the best medical secretaries around The course Is designed to provide high school and mature students with a further education enabling them to enter a wide field of positions and interests upon graduation Anyone interested In the medical field but with no Inclination to become a doctor or nurse should bid this course rewarding and beneficial The second year of the twoyear course deals Help for legal beagles Perry Masontype courtroom lawyers attract most of the attention In our legal system but much of the hard work is done back In the office by their secretaries To prepare students for such yeoman service Sheridans Legal Secretarial Program offers students intensive training in the areas of real estate litigation corporation estate and family law practices In addition to being trained in the operation of Simulation jobs come to student Simulation is coming to Sheridans Secretarial Studies Division In September The new subject will be Incorporated in the Executive Secretarial Program during the first year and then after a trial run offered as an elective to all secretarial students Simulation is designed to offer the student a realistic office experience The setup used is one In which Sheridan College serves as data processing organisation that handles all orders ac counts receivable accounts payable correspondence and banking for all customers and suppliers of Lester Corporation Lester Corporation is a national distributor of hotel and motel supplies and equipment Its operations will take place in a local high school Advantages of simulation are that it will offer the students an opportunity to interact with one another as they perform their specific Jobs within the office varied Job experience realistic work patterns motivation to perform on the Job and a new selfimage of success Students medical office directly with the medical aspect leaving the first year to develop general skills needed In the course Direct entry Into the second year can be obtained with a minimum of wp m In typing Good morning Browns office Is a more than common phrase heard In the simulated doctors office at the college The students have set up and are operating the office as part of their course of study 0 P has agreed to cooperate with the program and students are continually booking appointments completing OH LP claim cards and mailing these each week to OHIPs office in Hamilton After five months at the college the students are ready to go into the medical world tor some practical A work week is arranged and the students placed in doctors offices and hospitals in the location of their choice There is no In the medical field Every day reveals a new unpredictable experience Routine Jobs do exist but there la a continual challenge for learning and Improvement Throughout the course there are guest speakers who come to talk to the students about their future Jobs matic typewriters IBM ST now standard equipment In most legal offices the students stenographic skills are developed and improved through the use of the most modem secretarial teaching methods materials and machines Knowledge of the legal field is augmented through field trips to local registry offices and courthouses films and guest speakers during the year A one week session spent with local or Toronto law firms gives students valuable Insight into their future careers practical experience and often leads to permanent employment Business soda science and humanities subjects are also an Important and Integral part of the Legal Secretarial Program Students are allowed to select these subjects based on their own interests from the options available IhadataeeessM