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Office clerk

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

Other denominations:
Clerical assistant Correspondence clerk Office clerk

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.

Tasks

Tasks include -
(a) Recording, preparing, sorting, classifying and filing information;
(b) Sorting, opening and sending mail;
(c) Photocopying and faxing documents;
(d) Preparing reports and correspondence of a routine nature;
(e) Recording issue of equipment to staff;
(f) Responding to telephone or electronic enquiries or forwarding to appropriate person;
(g) Checking figures, preparing invoices and recording details of financial transactions made;
(h) Transcribing information onto computers, and proofreading and correcting copy.

Knowledge

  • Work skills
  • Accounting and taxation
  • Database and network design and administration
  • Literature and linguistics
  • Library, information and archival studies

Digital competencies

  • Performing general clerical and administrative tasks
  • Communicating with colleagues and clients
  • Planning events and programmes
  • Entering and transforming information
  • Maintaining operational records

Digital competencies

  • Managing, gathering and storing digital data
  • Using digital tools for collaboration and productivity

Personal competencies

  • Working efficiently
  • Processing information, ideas and concepts
  • Following ethical code of conduct

Professional groups of the occupation

Clerical support workers

General and keyboard clerks

General office clerks

General office clerks

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

General office clerks

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.

General and keyboard clerks

37%

63%

Men
Women

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

Contracts by age groups.

General and keyboard clerks

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

General office clerks

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?

General office clerks

No experience
12%
Less than 1 year
44%
Between 1 and 2 years
6%
Between 2 and 4 years
10%
Between 4 and 8 years
1%
More than 8 years
27%
Administrative and support service activities
32%
Public administration and defence; compulsory social security
17%
Professional, scientific and techinical activities
12%
Other service activities
9%
Information and communication
9%
Others
21%

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.