Career Overlap Occupation record Edition 1 · ESCO v1.2.1
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Where a office clerk can go next

12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role a office clerk already meets. The closer to the top of Table 1, the less there is to learn.

Office clerks are responsible for performing clerical and administrative duties in an office setting and support of business operations within a department. They assist all the administrative staff, secretaries, and assistants by sorting mail, filing forms and documents, answering phones, greeting clients and scheduling meetings.

Clerical support workers 48 skills on file 12 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: administrative assistant, 68%

administrative assistant 68% covered secretary 64% covered file clerk 55% covered receptionist 46% covered typist 46% covered foreign language corresponden… 44% covered office clerk You are here
Fig. 2 — the 6 nearest destinations from office clerk. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a office clerk already covers. All 12 are listed in the tables below.
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

Possible, but expect real retraining rather than a sideways step.

Index

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office clerk is filed under Clerical support workers, ISCO major group 4. The full index lists all ten groups.

Note

How these figures were compiled

Coverage is the share of the target role’s weighted skill requirement a office clerk already meets, counting required skills in full and supplementary ones at 0.35. 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.