From secretary to office clerk
13 of the 26 essential skills of a office clerk are already essential for a secretary — about 50% of the job, before you learn anything new.
These numbers compare two occupations, not you and a job. What you personally already cover depends on what you have actually done.
- 13
- skills carry over
- 13
- would be new
- 50%
- of the target job covered
- 26
- essential skills of a office clerk
What a office clerk does
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.
What carries over
13 skillsEssential in both jobs. This is the part of the move you have already made.
- communicate by telephone
- company policies
- disseminate internal communications
- disseminate messages to people
- file documents
- fill out forms
- handle mail
- manage digital documents
- organise business documents
- organise facilities for office personnel
- perform office routine activities
- process commissioned instructions
- use spreadsheets software
What would be new
13 skillsEssential for a office clerk and not for a secretary. Note that the taxonomy describes activities rather than tools, so some of these may be things you already do under a different name.
- align content with form
- apply grammar and spelling rules
- communicate with customers
- deliver correspondence
- facilitate access to information
- handle delivered packages
- information confidentiality
- maintain correspondence records
- prepare correspondence for customers
- process data
- route correspondence to business departments
- use different communication channels
- use office systems
Other moves from secretary
1 roles- administrative assistant14 skills in common
No account needed to start
How far are you from being a office clerk?
MyNodes reads your CV once, maps it to this same taxonomy, and shows you which roles you are already closest to and the few skills that would open the most doors. The file is deleted as soon as it has been read.