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A foreign language correspondence clerk already meets 41% of what the secretary role asks for. The move turns on 11 required skills not yet in the profile.
41%
61.6/ 100
1 Share of the secretary role’s weighted skill requirement already met by the foreign language correspondence clerk profile. Required skills count in full, supplementary skills at 0.35. Directional: the figure for the reverse move differs. 2 Combines what is missing with how specialised it is, so a gap of general skills scores easier than the same number of narrow ones.
Why this move works
A secretary role treats 11 of its required skills as things a foreign language correspondence clerk already does. These are the ones it depends on most.
- communicate by telephone
- company policies
- disseminate internal communications
- draft corporate emails
- file documents
- handle mail
What stands in the way is 11 required skills the profile does not yet cover. Table 3 groups them; Table 4 says which to take first.
Table 2 · What you already bring
Of the 14 skills that carry over, these are the ones fewest other occupations ask for. A secretary role needs them, and most people applying for one will not have them already. This is the part of a foreign language correspondence clerk background worth leading with.
- already held liaise with typists communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held draft corporate emails communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held file documents information skills
- already held disseminate internal communications communication, collaboration and creativity
- already held handle mail management skills
- already held deliver correspondence management skills
All 14 carried skills, including the 11 the secretary role treats as required.
Table 3 · What you would need to learn
The 29 missing skills fall into 5 areas of the ESCO skill hierarchy, numbered below in the order worth working in: the areas carrying the most required skills come first, and inside each one the required skills sit above the supplementary ones.
- required, not held administer appointments required
- required, not held disseminate messages to people required
- required, not held manage personnel agenda required
- required, not held organise facilities for office personnel required
- optional, not held issue sales invoices optional
- optional, not held handle financial transactions optional
- optional, not held handle petty cash optional
- optional, not held manage accounts optional
- optional, not held manage budgets optional
- required, not held communicate schedules to the people concerned required
- required, not held maintain internal communication systems required
- required, not held process commissioned instructions required
- optional, not held place orders for printed paper goods optional
- optional, not held demonstrate professional attitude to clients optional
- optional, not held develop documentation in accordance with legal requirements optional
- optional, not held manage needs for stationery items optional
- optional, not held organise travel arrangements for staff optional
- optional, not held prepare presentation material optional
- optional, not held write meeting reports optional
- required, not held fill out forms required
- required, not held keep task records required
- required, not held monitor staff absences required
- required, not held use microsoft office required
- optional, not held manage online content optional
- optional, not held use personal organization software optional
- optional, not held labour law optional
- optional, not held accounting techniques optional
- optional, not held education administration optional
- optional, not held education law optional
Table 4 · Where to start
The 3 entries a secretary role is least likely to hire without. The ordering is computed from the skill data, not from what pays.
- 01 communicate schedules to the people concerned skill · sector specific
- 02 administer appointments skill · cross sector
- 03 disseminate messages to people skill · cross sector
Each entry opens a course search for that skill. Career Overlap earns nothing from these links.
Appendix · The rest of the record
All 14 skills that carry over
- already held communicate by telephone skill
- already held company policies knowledge
- already held disseminate internal communications skill
- already held draft corporate emails skill
- already held file documents skill
- already held handle mail skill
- already held manage digital documents skill
- already held organise business documents skill
- already held perform office routine activities skill
- already held use spreadsheets software skill
- already held use word processing software skill
- already held deliver correspondence skill
- already held liaise with typists skill
- already held use office systems skill
18 supplementary skills, helpful but not required
- optional, not held issue sales invoices optional
- optional, not held labour law optional
- optional, not held manage online content optional
- optional, not held place orders for printed paper goods optional
- optional, not held accounting techniques optional
- optional, not held demonstrate professional attitude to clients optional
- optional, not held develop documentation in accordance with legal requirements optional
- optional, not held education administration optional
- optional, not held education law optional
- optional, not held handle financial transactions optional
- optional, not held handle petty cash optional
- optional, not held manage accounts optional
- optional, not held manage budgets optional
- optional, not held manage needs for stationery items optional
- optional, not held organise travel arrangements for staff optional
- optional, not held prepare presentation material optional
- optional, not held use personal organization software optional
- optional, not held write meeting reports optional
12 held skills the secretary role does not ask for
- not needed by the target role apply grammar and spelling rules skill
- not needed by the target role communicate commercial and technical issues in foreign languages skill
- not needed by the target role ensure proper document management skill
- not needed by the target role grammar knowledge
- not needed by the target role liaise with managers skill
- not needed by the target role master language rules skill
- not needed by the target role speak different languages skill
- not needed by the target role spelling knowledge
- not needed by the target role translate foreign language skill
- not needed by the target role translate language concepts skill
- not needed by the target role translate spoken language skill
- not needed by the target role use an application-specific interface skill
4 gaps that are knowledge rather than practice
Knowledge gaps usually close through study. Practical skill gaps usually need something you can point at.
- optional, not held labour law optional
- optional, not held accounting techniques optional
- optional, not held education administration optional
- optional, not held education law optional
Other moves recorded from foreign language correspondence clerk
- administrative assistant 44% covered · substantial
- office clerk 38% covered · substantial
- typist 29% covered · substantial
- subtitler 27% covered · substantial
Full index of moves from foreign language correspondence clerk
How this record was compiled
Both occupations are taken from ESCO, which lists the skills and knowledge each occupation is expected to have and marks every one required or optional. Nothing here is a prediction about hiring, and nothing here knows that a particular employer wants a particular certificate. Treat Table 3 as a starting point for your own research rather than a syllabus. The full method states what these figures can and cannot tell you.