The program

Williams has built a strong reputation in practical administration training for over a century, and our graduates have never been more in demand. That’s because Williams has a reputation with top employers for arming our secretaries and Personal Assistants with the right skills, knowledge and attitudes. An executive PA is an integral part of a management team, and we find that many of our graduates move into management roles in the years after they leave College.

Many of our graduates are placed with legal firms. The Legal Secretarial Studies major enables you to expand your core executive PA skills to cover the legal environment. You are introduced to law and the types of courts and legal practices in New South Wales, and develop skills in performing administrative and word processing tasks specific to a legal office. You also cover legal office procedures and issues of confidentiality and discretion.

Fast facts

Course content

Our flagship Diploma in Business Administration develops leadership and analytical capabilities needed to manage an office independently, or function in a larger organisation as an integral part of the management team. It includes all of the practical underpinning business and computer skills taught at the Certificate III and Certificate IV levels.

The subjects in the Legal Secretarial Studies major cover an introduction to the types of courts, legal practices and administration of the law in New South Wales, legal terminology, principles of legal confidentiality and security, legal record maintenance and transmission, planning and prioritising in a legal office, how to search public records, and the preparation and word processing of complex legal documents.

Please note that subjects may be changed at the discretion of the College to keep them up to date, to comply with industry Training Package requirements, or for timetabling purposes.

Graduate employment

The College has 114 years' experience in educating secretaries and administrators, and networking with quality businesses that employ them. We routinely receive far more positions than we have graduates. All levels prepare you for roles in small or large companies in all industry sectors. It is the variety of opportunity and wealth of available positions that makes this program so popular. Areas where recent graduates have been employed include: