Career Overlap Occupation record
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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.

Also known as shorthand typist, word processor, transcription typist, braille typist, audio typist, clerk typist, data entry typist, phonotypist.

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

Fig. 2 · Career map 5 nearest · ESCO v1.2.1
scopist 60% covered court reporter 60% covered foreign language corresponden… 33% covered administrative assistant 27% covered secretary 26% covered typist You are here
  • 70% and above · short step
  • 50 to 70% · real move
  • Below 50% · substantial retraining
The 5 nearest destinations from typist, 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 typist already covers. All 5 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

A typist needs 13 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
  • type error-free documents information skills
  • decode handwritten texts information skills
  • align content with form communication, collaboration and creativity
  • use free typing techniques management skills
  • liaise with typists communication, collaboration and creativity
  • transcription methods arts and humanities
  • draft corporate emails communication, collaboration and creativity
  • use dictionaries information skills
  • pose questions referring to documents communication, collaboration and creativity
  • use microsoft office working with computers
Table 4

Table 4 · Jobs that lead here

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

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

Overlap is how much of the target role is already part of a typist’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.