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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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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.
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Occupation group
Clerical support workers not elsewhere classified (4419)
Source facts
| ESCO URI | http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/c8505fa5-0a33-4143-bd87-f24f569e8813 |
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| ESCO code | 4419.2 |
| ISCO group | 4419 |
| Concept type | Occupation |