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Executive and administrative assistant resume keywords

We counted the skills in 136 open executive and administrative assistant job postings from 71 employers, including Equinox, ServiceNow and CoreWeave. The ones employers ask for most are logistics (48% of postings), communications (33%) and onboarding (22%). 57% of the postings mention AI, though often in the company's description rather than as a skill the job needs.

Top skills and tools in executive and administrative assistant postings

#KeywordShare of postings
1logistics 48%
2communications 33%
3onboarding 22%
4customer service 21%
5hospitality 18%
6Google Workspace 15%
7front desk 15%
8compliance 14%
9sales 14%
10reconciliation 13%
11project management 13%
12HR 12%
13marketing 11%
14behavioral health 10%
15catering 10%
16budgeting 10%
17event planning 10%
18inventory management 7%
19Excel 7%
20Salesforce 7%
21business operations 7%
22go-to-market 6%
23contract negotiation 5%
24customer experience 5%
25automation 5%
26procurement 5%
27claims processing 4%
28Apache Spark 4%
29triage 4%
30learning and development 4%

Share of the 136 postings whose description names the skill (plurals and common spellings, such as “JS” and “JavaScript”, count as one).

Soft skills employers mention

leadership · 47%communication · 38%cross-functional · 24%attention to detail · 19%collaboration · 15%reporting · 15%ownership · 12%documentation · 10%problem solving · 7%time management · 7%

Show these through results in your bullets (“led a team of six”) rather than listing them as adjectives.

How to use these keywords on your executive and administrative assistant resume

  1. Start with the posting, not this list. These are averages across 136 jobs; the one you're applying for has its own priorities. Use this page to spot common gaps, then match the specific posting.
  2. Name skills the way employers do. If you use “logistics”, “communications” and “onboarding”, write those exact words. Applicant tracking systems and recruiters search for them, and a close synonym can be missed.
  3. Put each skill in a bullet that shows a result. Naming customer service inside a bullet about what you achieved with it, with a number where you can, is stronger than listing it alone in a skills section.
  4. Add only what's true. If you've worked with “customer service”, “hospitality” and “Google Workspace” but your resume doesn't say so, add it. If you haven't, leave it out: interviews expose padded resumes quickly.

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How these numbers are calculated

Every figure comes from open executive and administrative assistant job postings on MANY Hired, imported from employers' own career pages. For each posting we pick out the skills, tools, certifications and qualifications its description names, then count how many postings ask for each one. A job counts as executive and administrative assistant by its title. Updated November 8, 2026.