Any administrator should excel at:

• Providing information to supervisors, co-workers, and subordinates, as well as communicating with people outside the organization, representing the organization to customers, the public, government, and other external sources. This information can be exchanged in person, in writing, or by telephone or e-mail.
• Maintaining information files and processing paperwork.
• Recruiting, interviewing, selecting, hiring, and promoting employees in an organization, and getting them to work together to accomplish tasks by encouraging and building mutual trust, respect, and cooperation.

Innovators will usually have four main goals:

• Developing or creating new applications, relationships, systems, or products.
• Providing creative ideas or artistic contributions.
• Keeping up-to-date technically and applying new knowledge to your job.
• Benchmarking, experimenting and testing novel approaches to solving problems.

• Compiling and analyzing credit information gathered by investigation.
• Obtaining information about potential creditors from banks, credit bureaus, and other credit services, and providing reciprocal information if requested.
• Interviewing credit applicants by telephone or in person for obtaining personal and financial data needed for completing credit reports.
• Preparing reports of findings and recommendations, using typewriters or computers.
• Contacting former employers and other acquaintances for verifying applicants’ references, employment, health history, and social behavior.
• Examining city directories and public records for verifying residence property ownership, bankruptcies, liens, arrest records, or unpaid taxes of applicants.
• Relaying credit reports information to subscribers by mail or by telephone.