Faced with the changes in recent decades, the article aims to verify that the Secretariat professional is needed in organizational structures. To achieve the objective prepared a literature review on the history of the profession, technological innovation and current and future skills. The data collected from the research, applied by the Union of Secretaries and Secretaries of State of São Paulo-SINSESP underwent a qualitative assessment on the skills of the professional. The participants were 201 professional secretariat of the capital and several cities in the state. Through literature review found that the Secretary is required in organizations and through data collected from the survey, it was found that the competences of the Secretariat professional accompanied the profile of the professional future.