Where a data entry clerk can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a data entry clerk already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Data entry clerks update, maintain and retrieve information held on computer systems. They prepare source data for computer entry by compiling and sorting information, process customer and account source documents by reviewing data for deficiencies and verify entered customer and account data.
Also known as statistical clerk, data steward, data entry inspector, data-entry clerk, payment entry clerk, data entry operator, data entry officer, data-entry officer.
Clerical support workers 34 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: data entry supervisor, 62%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · Within reach
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
A data entry clerk needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.
- maintain data entry requirements information skills
- documentation types social sciences, journalism and information
- perform data cleansing working with computers
- database information and communication technologies (icts)
- apply information security policies assisting and caring
- query languages information and communication technologies (icts)
- resource description framework query language information and communication technologies (icts)
- use word processing software working with computers
- process data information skills
- apply statistical analysis techniques information skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a data entry clerk does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- data entry supervisor 82% covered · difficulty 18.6
- data analyst 63% covered · difficulty 37.7
- big data archive librarian 50% covered · difficulty 48.4
- data quality specialist 46% covered · difficulty 53
- chief data officer 45% covered · difficulty 53.5
- market research analyst 39% covered · difficulty 58.9
- database integrator 37% covered · difficulty 60.5
- ICT research manager 33% covered · difficulty 63.8
- data centre operator 30% covered · difficulty 65.9
- computer vision engineer 29% covered · difficulty 67.1
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Data entry clerk is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. The full index lists all ten groups.
How these figures were compiled
Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a data entry clerk’s work. It is directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. Every entry above opens the full comparison for that move: what carries over, what is missing, and where to start. The full method.