Office education with specialties

On the office education, you become the one who keeps it all running. You work with administration, economics, customer contact, and coordination in everything from private businesses to public offices. The education makes you a skilled worker who keeps the workplace running smoothly behind the scenes.

§What do you do in everyday life?

Your day is filled with tasks that bind the company together. You answer emails and calls plan meetings and keep track of documents and deadlines. You work with accounting invoices personnel matters or customer service depending on your specialty. You are the one colleagues come to when something needs to be fixed — and who ensures nothing falls through the cracks.

• 01You learn to manage administration and documents.
• 02You become good at working in IT and accounting systems
• 03You learn to handle customers and citizens professionally.
• 04You understand how a company or office operates
• 05You become skilled in planning and oversight
• 06You learn to collaborate across departments.

§How do you get started?

You start with a basic course at a vocational college within the commercial field. You then find a traineeship in a company, a municipality or an organisation and enter into a training agreement. The programme alternates between school and practical training, typically lasts around four years in total, and you earn a wage while you are a trainee.

§The way forward

As a skilled office-trained person you can work with administration accounting HR or customer service in virtually all industries. With experience you can become team leader or administrative coordinator and you can study further in for example an academy or diploma education in management economics or administration.

“A well-oiled office is not noticed—you only discover it when it's missing.”