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

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

Typists operate computers to type and revise documents and compile material to be typed, such as correspondence, reports, statistical tables, forms, and audios. They read instructions accompanying material or follow verbal instructions to determine requirements such as number of copies needed, priority and desired format.

Clerical support workers 33 skills on file 5 career moves 2 above 60% overlap Closest: scopist, 60%

scopist 60% covered court reporter 60% covered foreign language corresponden… 33% covered administrative assistant 27% covered secretary 26% covered typist You are here
Fig. 2 — the 5 nearest destinations from typist. Distance from the centre is how much retraining the move takes; the figure on each is how much of that role a typist already covers. All 5 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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typist 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 typist 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.