File Clerks

People in this career often have these skills:

• Reading Comprehension - Understanding written sentences and paragraphs in work-related documents.

People in this career often know a lot about:

• Administrative - Knowledge of administrative and office procedures and systems such as word processing, managing files and records, stenography and transcription, designing forms, and workplace terminology.
• English Language - Knowledge of the structure and content of the English language including the meaning and spelling of words, rules of composition, and grammar.
• Computers and Electronics - Knowledge of circuit boards, processors, chips, electronic equipment, and computer hardware and software, including applications and programming.
• Customer and Personal Service - Knowledge of principles and processes for providing customer and personal services. This includes customer needs assessment, meeting quality standards for services, and evaluation of customer satisfaction.

People in this career often have talent in:

• Information Ordering - The ability to arrange things or actions in a certain order or pattern according to a specific rule or set of rules (e.g., patterns of numbers, letters, words, pictures, mathematical operations).
• Written Comprehension - The ability to read and understand information and ideas presented in writing.
• Category Flexibility - The ability to generate or use different sets of rules for combining or grouping things in different ways.
• Near Vision - The ability to see details at close range (within a few feet of the observer).
• Oral Comprehension - The ability to listen to and understand information and ideas presented through spoken words and sentences.

• Oral Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in speaking so others will understand.
• Written Expression - The ability to communicate information and ideas in writing so others will understand.
• Perceptual Speed - The ability to quickly and accurately compare similarities and differences among sets of letters, numbers, objects, pictures, or patterns. The things to be compared may be presented at the same time or one after the other. This ability also includes comparing a presented object with a remembered object.

People in this career often do these activities:

• Read materials to determine needed actions.
• Enter information into databases or software programs.
• Sort mail.
• Operate office equipment.
• Type documents.

• Compile data or documentation.
• Verify accuracy of financial or transactional data.
• Provide information to coworkers.
• Maintain inventory records.
• File documents or records.
• Search files, databases or reference materials to obtain needed information.
• Track goods or materials.
• Store items.
• Store records or related materials.
• Examine documents to verify adherence to requirements.
• Attach identification information to products, items or containers.
• Develop data analysis or data management procedures.

• Billing and Posting Clerks

• Bookkeeping, Accounting, and Auditing Clerks

• Legal Secretaries and Administrative Assistants

• Receptionists and Information Clerks

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• Executive Secretaries and Executive Administrative Assistants

• Title Examiners, Abstractors, and Searchers

• Payroll and Timekeeping Clerks

• Word Processors and Typists