Where a foreign language correspondence clerk can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a foreign language correspondence clerk already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Foreign language correspondence clerks read and reply to a company's correspondence in foreign languages. They also perform clerical duties.
Also known as foreign correspondence clerk, foreign language correspondence assistant, foreign correspondent assistant, foreign language correspondence officer, foreign language correspondent clerk, foreign language correspondence secretary, foreign correspondent secretary.
Clerical support workers 26 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: administrative assistant, 44%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 2 · What the job itself asks for
A foreign language correspondence clerk needs 10 required skills and areas of knowledge. They say the most about the work.
- translate foreign language communication, collaboration and creativity
- master language rules communication, collaboration and creativity
- translate language concepts communication, collaboration and creativity
- communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages communication, collaboration and creativity
- ensure proper document management information skills
- spelling arts and humanities
- grammar arts and humanities
- apply grammar and spelling rules communication, collaboration and creativity
- company policies business, administration and law
- speak different languages communication, collaboration and creativity
Table 3 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what a foreign language correspondence clerk does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- administrative assistant 44% covered · difficulty 49.9
- office clerk 44% covered · difficulty 49.9
- translator 43% covered · difficulty 51.6
- interpreter 39% covered · difficulty 55
- interpretation agency manager 39% covered · difficulty 55.2
- translation agency manager 39% covered · difficulty 55.2
- secretary 36% covered · difficulty 56.6
- lexicographer 34% covered · difficulty 58.5
- typist 33% covered · difficulty 59.3
- executive assistant 30% covered · difficulty 61
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Foreign language correspondence 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 foreign language correspondence 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.