Clerk Typist

Overview

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

Responsibilities

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.

Qualifications

High School or commercial school graduate or GED equivalent with courses in typing and English. Six months or 1 year's experience desired.

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.