Note, I’m not talking about administrative assistants who work in a coporation, but the corporate secretary who is an officer of the corporation. From the limited information I have, it seems as though they’re often attorneys at law or at least non-practicing JD’s. At the same time, one such attorney who was the corporate secretary at a company where I was once employed, had been “employed at several law firms over two years”. Either that was a typo, or it doesn’t say much about his staying power in his previous positions.
So what’s the deal with being a corporate secretary? Is it a sinecure, or just something that one of the executives takes on as part of his duties, or do the secretarial duties make up a full-time position? Is it a coveted position, or something that people try to avoid?