Where an insurance clerk can go next
5 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an insurance clerk already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.
Insurance clerks perform general clerical and administrative duties in an insurance company, other service institution, for a self-employed insurance agent or broker or for a government institution. They offer assistance and provide information about insurances to customers and they manage the paperwork of insurance agreements.
Also known as insurance agent, insurance management assistant, insurance reconciliation clerk, insurance accounts clerk, personal lines insurance clerk, insurance officer, insurance office clerk, indemnity administrator, insurance assistant, insurance administration clerk.
Clerical support workers 32 skills on file 5 career moves 1 above 60% overlap Closest: investment clerk, 65%
- 70% and above · short step
- 50 to 70% · real move
- Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 2 · A bigger jump
Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.
Table 3 · What the job itself asks for
An insurance clerk needs 14 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.
- handle paperwork management skills
- offer financial services communication, collaboration and creativity
- perform office routine activities management skills
- types of insurance business, administration and law
- provide financial product information communication, collaboration and creativity
- use office systems management skills
- electronic communication engineering, manufacturing and construction
- office software information and communication technologies (icts)
- maintain records of financial transactions information skills
- perform clerical duties management skills
Table 4 · Jobs that lead here
The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an insurance clerk does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.
- investment clerk 73% covered · difficulty 28.9
- back office specialist 52% covered · difficulty 47.6
- middle office analyst 43% covered · difficulty 55.3
- foreign exchange cashier 41% covered · difficulty 56.2
- office manager 26% covered · difficulty 68.7
- membership administrator 20% covered · difficulty 73.9
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Insurance 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 an insurance 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.