Career Overlap Occupation record
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Where a post office counter clerk can go next

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

Post office counter clerks sell products and services at a post office. They assist customers with picking up and sending mail. Post office counter clerks also sell financial products.

Also known as post office supervisor, post office customer service consultant, mail service clerk, post office customer service assistant, mail services counter clerk.

Clerical support workers 25 skills on file 5 career moves 0 above 60% overlap Closest: bank teller, 33%

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
bank teller 33% covered cashier 28% covered foreign exchange cashier 26% covered financial trader 26% covered customer contact centre infor… 25% covered post office counter clerk You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from post office counter 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 a post office counter clerk already covers. All 5 are listed in the tables below.
Table 1

Table 1 · A bigger jump

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

Table 2

Table 2 · What the job itself asks for

A post office counter clerk needs 12 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
  • sell post office products communication, collaboration and creativity
  • satisfy customers communication, collaboration and creativity
  • deliver correspondence management skills
  • assist customers assisting and caring
  • operate cash register management skills
  • characteristics of services business, administration and law
  • characteristics of products engineering, manufacturing and construction
  • handle financial transactions management skills
  • process payments management skills
  • issue sales invoices management skills
Table 3

Table 3 · Jobs that lead here

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

Index

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Post office counter 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 a post office counter 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.