Office manager jobs tend to follow a different format.

Your reader is generally interested in:

• Your postion within the Company hierarchy.
• Demonstration of strong organizational skills.

• Your level of responsibility as office manager.

• Your personal achievements.
• How many reports you are responsible for.
• What area of business process you control.
• What improvements you have made to revenue streams.
• What cost efficiencies you may have initiated.
• How you have streamlined a business model to add value to the business.
• What processes you may have successfully introduced.
• How you motivate a team.
• Your personal management style.
• Your decisiveness.
• Your sales abilities, where relevant.
• Whether or not you have budget responsibilities/P + L.
• Who you answer to.

All of these subjects should be adequately addressed within each secretarial jobs you have covered.

It is normally expected for managers to be focused on their own team, but also the business as a whole, taking a helicopter style view of the entire business and adding value across many different processes, procedures and policies and office management as a whole

Touchy Feely vs Number cruncher.

You may expect an office manager's CV to be all about people management and touchy feely HR issues etc. This is not normally the case, the higher level a manger gets, the less people management they do and the more they do budgets, reports, policies, procedures, cost efficiencies and number crunching etc to drive the results they want from the business in their charge.

Career Progression

If you are currently progressing through the ranks towards office management and see yourself moving into an office manager job, you need to highlight what experience and personal qualities you have that lend themselves to that position of authority.