Overview
The Clerk Typist performs various typing and clerical tasks, files records and reports, and performs general office work.
Special Instructions
RESPONSIBLE FOR RECEIVING, FILING, SHIPPING, AND OTHER CLERICAL WORKResponsibilities
- 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
Education
• High School or commercial school graduate or GED equivalent with courses in typing and English.
Experience
• Six months or one (1) year's experience desired.
• Clerical experience, or on-the-job training, in posting, filing, and records maintenance methods.
Required Skills, Knowledge & Abilities
• 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 perception necessary to proofread and to avoid errors in transposition.
• Must have basic computer knowledge.