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Foreign language correspondence clerk

Latest available data: December 2024 (includes accumulated data from the past 12 months)

Other denominations:
Foreign correspondence clerk Foreign correspondent assistant Foreign correspondent secretary Foreign language correspondence assistant Foreign language correspondence clerk Foreign language correspondence officer Foreign language correspondence secretary Foreign language correspondent clerk

Foreign language correspondence clerks read and reply to a company's correspondence in foreign languages. They also perform clerical duties.

Tasks

In such cases tasks would include -
(a) Receiving customers' orders for classified advertising, writing and editing copy, calculating advertising rates and billing customers;
(b) Writing business and government correspondence such as replies to requests for information and assistance, damage claims, credit and billing enquiries and service complaints;
(c) Assisting in the preparation of periodicals, advertisements, catalogues, directories and other material for publication;
(d) Reading newspapers, magazines, press releases and other publications to locate and file articles of interest to staff and clients.

Knowledge

  • Work skills
  • Literature and linguistics

Digital competencies

  • Performing general clerical and administrative tasks
  • Collaborating and liaising
  • Using foreign languages
  • Translating and interpreting
  • Communicating with colleagues and clients

Digital competencies

  • Managing, gathering and storing digital data
  • Using word processing, publishing and presentation software
  • Working with computers

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently

Professional groups of the occupation

Clerical support workers

Other clerical support workers

Other clerical support workers

Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified

Other occupations of the professional group

Do you want to know the demand for this occupation in the market?

Contracts and job seekers in the last year in Barcelonès

Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified

15.234

Number of contracts in Barcelonès

42,51%

Percentage of contracts in Catalonia

,16% Interannual variation of contracts in Barcelonès

69,23%

Permanent contracts over total contracts in Barcelonès

22,44%

Part-time contracts

1,12% Turnover index

12.677

Average of job seekers in Barcelonès

0%

Interannual variation of job seekers in Barcelonès

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

The market for this profile is hiring

Contracts in u00e8 over the past year by sex and age

Contracts by gender in Barcelonès.

Other clerical support workers

41%

59%

Men
Women

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

Contracts by age groups.

Other clerical support workers

Data source: Observatori del Treball i Model Productiu, Government of Catalonia

What vacancies are published in the professional family?

Vacancies published by professional family and type of contract in Barcelonès over the past year

Other clerical support workers

Occupation Vacancies Permanent contracts

Data source: Data generated from the analysis of Lightcast data and the Observatory of Work and Productive Model of the Government of Catalonia.

What experience is required for the vacancies? Which sectors are looking for this occupation?

Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified

No experience
8%
Less than 1 year
49%
Between 1 and 2 years
14%
Between 2 and 4 years
19%
Between 4 and 8 years
1%
More than 8 years
9%
Administrative and support service activities
34%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
16%
Information and communication
14%
Other service activities
12%
Transportation and storage
5%
Others
19%

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

The vacancies published are for working in:

Job vacancies posted by county

Data source: Own elaboration based on the data of vacancies extracted by Lightcast.

This service uses the ESCO classification of the European Commission.