Clerk Typist: Precise Data Entry & Admin Support

Overview

The Clerk Typist performs various typing and clerical tasks, files records and reports, and performs general office work.

• Types correspondence, reports, forms, cards, and requisitions, etc.
• Operates office machines such as photo copies, postage meters, and adding machines.
• Maintains a control on documents, which either originate within or pass through the department, by an effective logging, posting, or filing operation.
• Searches files to obtain correspondence, reports, and records.
• Answers telephone and takes messages.
• Receives, sorts, and distributes mail.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• High School or commercial school graduate or GED equivalent with courses in typing and English. Six months or 1 year's experience desired.
• Must demonstrate the ability to accurately type a minimum of 60
  
  WPM.
• Should have a good working knowledge of the rules of grammar, spelling, and punctuation.
• Clerical experience, or "on-the-job training: in posting, filing, and records maintenance methods.
• Clerical perception necessary to proofread and to avoid errors in transposition.
• Must have basic computer knowledge.