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What are the job descriptions of a document controller and a secretary? Do they have the same job responsibilities?

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Question added by Abdul Latheef , Document Controller , AECOM Middle East Ltd.
Date Posted: 2015/12/17
yahya elmosallamy
by yahya elmosallamy , Marketing Manager , AlQabas Eng. Cont. & General Trading

1. A secretary has to do jobs like typing and copying dictations, attending telephone calls and fixing appointments. A secretary will not have any other major role to play and he or she has no power to make any decisions independently.

2. The document controller is responsible for an organisation's documents, it involves coordinating with the different departments within an organisation and ensuring that documents are kept in the right location and are accessible to all internal services. 

 

 

Baby Jane Utrera
by Baby Jane Utrera , Secretary cum Admin Coordinator , Darwish Petroleum & Industrial Services

The document controller is responsible for an organisation's documents, it involves coordinating with the different departments within an organisation and ensuring that documents are kept in the right location and are accessible to all internal services, while the secretary has to do jobs like typing and copying dictations, attending call and fixing appointments.

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