Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where an office clerk can go next

12 destinations recorded, ranked by how much of the target role an 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.

Also known as clerical assistant, correspondence clerk.

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

Fig. 2 · Career map 6 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
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
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 6 nearest destinations from office clerk, each one a link to that move’s record. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role an office clerk already covers. All 12 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · Within reach

Table 2

Table 2 · A bigger jump

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

Table 3

Table 3 · What the job itself asks for

An office clerk needs 26 required skills and areas of knowledge. These 10 are the ones fewest other jobs share, so they say the most about the work.

Required skill Area
  • route correspondence to business departments handling and moving
  • prepare correspondence for customers management skills
  • maintain correspondence records information skills
  • facilitate access to information information skills
  • align content with form communication, collaboration and creativity
  • organise facilities for office personnel management skills
  • file documents information skills
  • fill out forms information skills
  • disseminate internal communications communication, collaboration and creativity
  • handle delivered packages handling and moving
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

The reverse view: occupations whose skills already cover much of what an office clerk does. The figure is how much of this job each one brings.

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

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of an office 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.