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Executive Assistant in the United States
68 postings read · sampled 2026-10-01 · source ats · 48 employers · largest 7% of it
What employers actually ask for
Credentials named in the 68 postings we read, ranked by how many mentioned each one.
None. Across 68 postings, no certification or licence was named often enough to call it a requirement. For this role in this market, employers are hiring on demonstrated work rather than credentials — which means money spent on a certificate here is unlikely to be what gets you the interview.
Lower signal for this role
Credentials that barely appeared in this sample. That is not a claim they are worthless — plenty are valuable for a different job, a different city, or a promotion later. It is a claim that employers here mostly did not ask.
- Bachelor's DegreeAccredited institution4%3 of 68 postingsAccredited institution →
What the official taxonomy says
O*NET surveys people already doing this job. That describes who got hired over a long window, not what employers are asking for now — where it disagrees with the counts above, the counts are the more current answer.
- Associate’s degree or other 2-year degree34%
- High school diploma or equivalent24%
- Some college, no degree21%
Job Zone Three: Medium Preparation Needed. Most occupations in this zone require training in vocational schools, related on-the-job experience, or an associate's degree.
O*NET 43-6011.00 · pulled 2026-10-01 · percentages are of surveyed workers, each rounded separately, so they need not total 100
What it pays
BLS Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics, May 2025. A different survey from the postings above, so the two do not share a sample.
Who was hiring
Employers with at least one matching posting in this sample.
Figma · Baseten · Bosch · Databricks · Datadog · Success Academy Charter Schools · Asana · City of New York · ElevenLabs · Sierra · Spring Health · Stripe · Affirm · Anduril Industries · Apptronik · BDA · Braze · California Creative Solutions Inc · Carta · Cognition · Collabera · Decagon · Duolingo · FanDuel · Focus Financial Partners · Harvey · Headway · IonQ · Latitude Inc · Live Parallel · Lyra Health · Mercor · Notion · Peloton · Pinterest · PsiQuantum · Ramp · Range · Renuity · Ridgeline · Saronic · Scale AI · Scout Motors · Skydio · SpaceX · Verkada · vTech Solution · Zocdoc
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