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Overview
The work links language accuracy with clerical support: translating messages, drafting corporate emails, filing documents, handling mail and using office systems.
In job descriptions, look for foreign-language correspondence, grammar and spelling, translation, telephone contact, digital document management, spreadsheets, word processing, company policies and liaison with managers or typists.
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Search jobsWhat the work can involve
Foreign language correspondence clerks handle incoming and outgoing business messages in other languages. Work can include reading correspondence, drafting replies, translating written or spoken content, filing documents and routing messages through office systems.
Skills and specializations
Useful skills include grammar, spelling, language rules, translation, corporate email drafting, telephone communication, document management, spreadsheets, word processing and careful handling of company policies.
Salary context
Pay context depends on language range, volume and sensitivity of correspondence, translation responsibility, document-control duties, office-system knowledge and how directly the clerk supports managers or commercial teams.
Career paths
Career paths can move toward multilingual office coordination, executive assistance, document control, translation support, customer correspondence, import-export administration or team lead roles in business support.
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Check whether adverts name the working languages, correspondence channels, translation duties, document filing, telephone contact, corporate email, office software and reporting line.
Editorial note
This guide is editorial career context. It is not official labour-market statistics or role-specific salary data.
Where might this occupation occur?
This occupation may occur in several kinds of economic activity. Here are some examples and other occupations that may be found in the same areas.
Office administrative and support activities
This is one example. Another occupation in this activity is file clerk.
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The selection is based on how occupations are connected to economic activities in ESCO and NACE. Only a few examples are shown to make the information easier to use. The occupations were selected because they are close in occupation area and important skills. The examples are not a ranking. They do not show where most people work, where demand is highest, or which occupation is best suited to a particular person.
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O*NET relationships
See occupations connected to this ESCO occupation in the official O*NET–ESCO mapping. The relationship type comes from the source and is not a ranking or recommendation.
O*NET relationships: 3
Office Clerks, General
43-9061.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETSecretaries and Administrative Assistants, Except Legal, Medical, and Executive
43-6014.00
Close relationship
The occupations are closely related, but the official mapping does not treat them as exact equivalents.
Open in O*NETCorrespondence Clerks
43-4021.00
O*NET occupation is more specific
The O*NET occupation covers a more specific field of work than this ESCO occupation.
Open in O*NETSource and method
These relationships come from the official European Commission O*NET–ESCO crosswalk.
Relationship direction: O*NET occupation to ESCO occupation.
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NACE Rev. 2.1
Economic activities linked to this occupation.
82.1Office administrative and support activities
Alternative labels
Occupation group
Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified (4419)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c8505fa5-0a33-4143-bd87-f24f569e8813 |
|---|---|
| ESCO code | 4419.2 |
| ISCO group | 4419 |
| Concept type | Occupation |